Adulting with Dungeons & Dragons⌗

My name is Jav and gaming has always been a part of my life. I convinced a few friends to learn D&D together so I volunteered to be the Dungeon Master (“DM”) for the D&D Starter Set campaign, The Lost Mine of Phandelver.

I’ve always enjoyed storytelling, fantasy, gaming, envisioning crazy worlds, and spending time with friends. As I write this, social distancing directives are in place to slow the spread of COVID-19. Roleplaying with friends over teleconferencing (we’re now using Google Meet) has been a surprisingly fun and intellectually stimulating social escape.

The main purpose of this blog is to track our campaign’s progress and as new DM to the D&D world, I hope to share helpful resources for new players and DMs alike. So, there you have it… enjoy!

About this Site⌗

This site was developed and deployed using completely free, open-source tools. I relied on the following tools for building this site:

• R and RStudio Desktop: https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/
• R’s blogdown package: https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/
• Hugo Terminal theme: https://themes.gohugo.io/hugo-theme-terminal/
• R code to install the blogdown package and the Hugo site generator:

install.packages('blogdown')
blogdown::install_hugo()

• GitHub for data persistence (free!): https://github.com/
• Netlify for publishing the site with CI/CD (free!): https://www.netlify.com/