User blog:Iampockets23/Foundations

I've been busy. I started working on building up both information for this wiki, but also working on how I'd like this wiki to work for campaign development.

After talking with my Co-DM, Kurt, we've fleshed out a lot of the Lore and background of Arinoth, while also trying to prepare for the future of the adventure. This had gotten me very excited, as we've seen these simple loose ends left open for opportunity tie in to these wonderful plot developments. The gods, cultures, myths, and lore all tying into one another makes for one incredibly epic campaign setting, and it makes me excited to explore it both as a writer and an adventuring while Kurt and I switch between DMing.

I've also been working on coding this wiki's features. Learning more of the options the Wikia offers has given me a basic tool set that I can manipulate into a seraies of neat features. I've gotten things like the infoboxes set up for several categories of game elements, and am working towards a customizable Character Sheet template for use.

Map making is becoming an interesting project as well. Using a feature to "hide" links in a picture, I've been able to embed such links into image files of maps I've drawn, so when you click on a certain location of a map you're sent to the corresponding page it belongs to. This makes the wiki less like a compiled heap of text and articles, and more like a working window into the game world.

As we adventure this seems to be like a scrapbook-wiki, where we unload the notes of the game sessions into the files and pages. But on the other hand this wiki has potential, potential to lead into a more elaborate tool not only for us DMs to relay information back to our players, but also allow them to explore freely in the realm as we collectively expand upon it.