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Hello hello!
And so another year has passed since my last update post, woops. My bf and I started to get really hooked on Dungeons & Dragons in spring last year. I tried to keep up with my other hobbies but we have been totally absorbed and addicted ever since. We are actually at episode 137 of our campaign at the moment. So I decided to start the D&D story website. I already created the layout and the rough structure of the site. However, since I only take notes during our plays, which have to be typed out into episodes, it will take me a reaaaalllyyy long time to write episodes. I finished epsiode 4 of 137 so far. Once I have filled the rest of the site I plan to finish a few more episodes and then the site will be opened. Here is a little, blurry sneakpeek of the layout:



It's not exactly my favourite layout so far and it's also the second version of it. I liked the first version better but scrapped it because I noticed that the PNGs that I used were AI art, which didn't feel right. This layout actually features the Hero Forge model of one of my characters and the design feels very fitting for D&D and the beginning of the story, so I decided to keep this one.
I'm not sure what I will do with Linco. Maybe I will close it, if I still can't find motivation to work on it.
In October 2025, ARW had it's 5th anniversary. I added a new anniversary graphic to the intro page a few weeks ago and removed dead affiliate links, which again makes me feel like the site world is dying. But there are good news as well. ARW also has a new affiliate: Kinku. Check out Nata's lovely site!

That's all for the sign of life today. Going to try to be a little more active here again this year.

Until next time,
Ran
posted on Friday, 27th February 2026 comment?

Hello everyone!
I hope you had a good start into the new year! For me the year started rather uneventful besides some stuff at work and that the forms on all my sites stopped working. I didn't notice until someone from TAFL messaged me that my sceptile fanlisting had no join form. So I started to look for a new form service. While talking about the issue to a friend he mentioned that I could ask AI for help with a PHP code for my own forms. Since I have no clue about PHP, and after reocurring errors with sites who offer free forms, I decided to give it a try. And that sh*t almost made me flip my desk. I learned that AI can help you with codes, but not entirely write the code for you. But while trying to adapt the code to the multiple forms on my sites I got at least a little bit of understanding for PHP codes. Will I try to implement other things with PHP? Probably not, but having my own forms is a huge step and I'm happy that I'm not dependant on unreliable free form services anymore.
Linco on the other hand will be offline for a while. I never received any requests to join the collective since it opened which is probably because the site had form issues multipe times and because I never really advertised the site anywhere. So I'm taking my time now with fixing the forms there and will reopen the site if/when I have the motivation to work on more traffic.
ARW had it's 4th anniversary last october. I was busy with renovating our house in autumn but I finally created an anniversary graphic now. I've recently been into Dungeons & Dragons, thus the dragon theme for the graphic. I've been watching some D&D stuff on youtube and thought about creating my own character and writing a story about it. Maybe even create a D&D story website. But I don't know if I will have the time for that. Maybe I'll start something offline and then put everything online somewhere on my blog later on.

Here is an overview of today's update:
- Updated some text
- New anniversary graphic
- Added 3 icons
- Added 4 icon textures

I have to continue with the renovation of our house soon but I hope I will find time for more frequent uptades. We will see. I wish you a great week and take care everyone!

Until then,
Ran
posted on Sunday, 19th January 2025 comment?

Hello everyone!
Despite my last update post I managed to finish some updates. I really really wanted to work on my websites so I sacrificed a bit of my sleep (I don't recommend that). First of all we have a new enter layout featuring Himeko from one of my favourite games Honkai Star Rail. Secondly the "about" page has been renamed into "site" and only has some information about ARW now. I moved the info about me to my blog. If you are interested to get to know me a little bit better you can check out the "about me" page there. I also moved the counter to the bottom of the layout as I felt like it was not working correctly while on the about page. Most other updates concern BALC, which was split into two websites now: a blog and a link collection website. They both received a new layout and a new site name.

I wish everyone a great week!

Kind regards, Ran
posted on Tuesday, 16th July 2024 comment?

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