your next arc. Whatever the cause is, these situations often lead to the necessity of a “side quest” or “one-shot”. However, just because something is a one-shot doesn’t mean it can’t be important to the story or fun for the players! In this part of the homebrew campaign creation series, I’ll be talking about how you can make meaningful one-shots for long-term campaigns.

I was actually surprised to learn about the origins of straight edge while I was researching for this video. I’d originally thought that it was a subset of veganism since all of the straight edge people I know are also vegan. However, I was fascinated to find out that it originally started in the hardcore punk scene as a counter to the excess drug and alcohol use that was stereotypical of punk culture. Crazy.

...honestly, what a note to end this year on. Dark Age has so much to love, so the question isn’t really did I enjoy it, but rather how much did I enjoy it? Is this going to end up being the first Pierce Brown book that I give five stars to?

Today, I’m going to be reading from some of my more recent works, two of which were spin-offs of The Overlord Saga that were written to exemplify what I’d learned from writing hundreds of thousands of words for The Overlord Saga. I’m going to be reading excerpts from Of Elegance and Slaughter, Edwin, and even my novel How I Ruined My Life. Since I have so many works to read from for this post—and because the cringe-worthy writing isn’t quite as prevalent in each of these books—I’m going to limit myself to only one excerpt from each piece of work, for this final part of the series.

Today, I’m going over the second book in the series. I actually wrote six books in this series, but unfortunately have only been able to find the first two. So after I finish reading excerpts from The Overlord Saga’s first two books, I’m going to move on to excerpts from other books I wrote after this series, including my published novel How I Ruined My Life. That’ll be in the next post!