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to a place where I can post technical mumbo jumbo mixed in with TTRPG thoughts with little ryhme or reason.
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Introduction to “The Dark Below: A West Marches Campaign” Alright, I feel inclined to write about a project I’ve been working on for the last 6 months. Together with Noah(flimfam94) and John(MrTibbs) we’ve been putting together a new “west marches” campaign system for use with World’s Without Number.
Rather then explain west marches here, I’ll link to the blog for the eponymous campaign - Here.
Our Objectives Running Standard WWN Adventures in a Bustling Community Our campaign integrates traditional Worlds Without Number (WWN) adventures with a vibrant Discord community and comprehensive systems for downtime, factions, and settlements.
Now that I’m on the other side of the daunting task of setting up Hugo and making an extensible enough theme, I figure I can share what I’ve done and learned.
My Design process While envisioning what I wanted out of this, here is the process of selection and implementation.
My Objectives When setting out to make this, I wanted a few simple things:
A simple way to write and publish posts.
Holy Crap Hugo docs are worse than I recall. This literally took me 3 or 4 hours. In the end the quickstart is beyond useless, to the point of harmful.
Just use the custom theme option to start and learn to make your own themes.
Here’s my quickstart Install Hugo’s binary Create a new site with hugo new site whatever When it asks about theme, just say to make a custom one.
