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Adventure Lookup

Welcome to the Adventure Lookup wiki. Before looking further make sure you have familiarised yourself with the project concept.

Introduction

A good place to start is the video that started this all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIyLvicSu78

In 2016, the spare time of Dungeon Masters(DMs), or Game Masters(GMs), is stretched much thinner than it was when D&D was first released. Some DMs find that their time is better spent editing pre made content to fit their adventures, than creating entire adventures from scratch. While creating your own adventure might have been a great way to diversify your players’ experiences back in the day, today, with hundreds of people sharing their content online, and professionally written content having been published and sold for decades, there is a decent chance that what a DM is trying to create for a specific situation already exists. Sadly for the DMs who would like to incorporate the creations of others in their adventures, be it to save time, or for any other reason, specific content can be very hard to find. As far as the writers of this document know, there is no database that catalogues as much tabletop RPG adventure content as possible, and no tool for searching through this hypothetic database exists to aid DMs in their searches. Primarily, a need exists for a such database with a powerful searching tool. The database should eventually contain information about as many published adventures as possible, and to reach this goal, it should be possible for the users of the database to expand it. Adventure information should help DMs determine whether a specific adventure contains what they are looking for, and where to find it.

More information and plenty of discussion can be found on reddit and discord.

Getting Involved

A preliminary development team has been assembled and we are hard at work getting the basics set up. The back-end portion of the site will be developed using the following languages, frameworks and tools:

• Python 3.5
• Django 1.9
• PostgreSQL
• Docker

We hope to have a quick "Get started" guide up and running along with the skeleton framework for the site so you can start developing right away. Once we have that ready, we invite everyone to fork and send pull requests with improvements, new features and more - we'll have a separate document with "Wanted Features", but if you have something awesome you think we need, start an issue and we'll take it from there.

In the meantime, feel free to read the ongoing Design Document.

Thanks for checking out the project, we'll have updates soon™!