It has been a while. Work and graduate school have kept me rather busy. This post is to briefly go over something new I tried to do for a Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) campaign I am running. I created a website for the campaign using Wix.com.
My website: Broke D&D
I have had a D&D campaign going on for two months now, yet the group only managed to meet twice. It was decided to switch to an online setting. I found myself still having to either flip through my notebook or juggle computer document every time a player asked a question on my homebrew [custom] world.
There is a preexisting website [World Anvil] I know of that allows dungeon masters [D&D game officiators] to archive information rather than make their own website. I however have experience in web design and wanted more control over the layout.
I was already using WordPress for both a course project and my current job as a graduate assistant for my university. Using Wix.com was honestly me experimenting with other options; I liked it. For a free account, it was more intuitive, so I decided to publish the website.
My players so far seem impressed by it. I'm still working on webpages that can be lore and history of the world that any of the players can find on their own. There is some more behind the scenes infrastructure I need to make: surplus quests, roll tables, regional monster compendiums, et cetera.
For now, I am quite happy with this D&D website I made. Most importantly my players are happy with it. Doing things that make the game run smoother for the players is valuable to me; having the dungeon master not stumble through notes all the time is one way of accomplishing that goal.
