3 User Profiles - AdventureLookup/adventurelookup-documentation GitHub Wiki

Actors below are examples of the different types of users of AdventureLookup.com, with the different needs that they will bring. Broadly users that we need to concern ourselves with fall into the roles of Content Contributor, Adventure Consumer or Moderator. Other personas of note may be the website Owner, website SysAdmin, a Publisher or Author, or a D&D Player. For the most part these personas are relevant to this design through how they engage with the roles we’re concerning ourselves with, and where they don’t their needs are not necessarily relevant to this system.

Matthew Mercer

Role: Content Contributor

Description:

Matthew has full information on an adventure (or adventures) and is excited to get it all uploaded to the website for others to find in their searches.

Lucy Swift

Role: Content Contributor

Description:

Lucy has an adventure to add, but lacks the time to add it all in one session, requiring to take multiple sessions to add the information to the site.

Dietrich Kopf

Role: Content Contributor

Description: Dietrich knows they only have partial information about an adventure that may or may not be on the website already and will require help from other contributors to complete the adventure details, if it is not already present.

Jerry Smith

Role: Moderator

Description:

Admin level user with the ability to approve or hide content, who checks the site on a daily basis to keep content fresh and action any concerns or conflicts with provided data.

Sally Jenkins

Role: Moderator

Description:

A trust level user who semi-regularly comes to the site as a consumer, and when she notices information that she believes to be wrong takes the time to flag it for correction, with her own data value where possible, for a higher level moderator’s attention.

Catt Moleville

Role: Adventure Consumer (Advanced)

Description:

Catt is a DM that knows her players very well, she knows what they like and has decided to start a new adventure with them. She has specific criteria but she isn’t set on finding a specific adventure. She intends to use the site to search for any and all adventures that work for her players and take the time to obtain them to review the best one for her players.

Newt Bee

Role: Adventure Consumer (Beginner)

Description:

Newt has run a couple of adventures for a couple of different groups and has started to get confident in his ability to DM. His players have requested that his next adventure involves an Undead “big bad”. He uses the website to find any campaign that matches that simple criteria and relies on the site’s default sorting options and any peer reviews to choose a single one to obtain

Advik Patel

Role: Adventure Consumer (Researcher)

Description:

Advik prides himself on coming up with one of a kind Adventures but needs inspiration. He’s using the website to look for Adventures that meet various different criteria, using multiple searches to find the Adventures that sound interesting. He needs a way of keeping a record of these various adventures that he likes the sound of as he changes his search criteria frequently

Karen Holmes

Role: Adventure Consumer (Researcher)

Description:

Karen remembers playing a mind blowing adventure when she was younger and wants to play it again as a DM. She remembers key details about the adventure but not enough to find the resources for it. She comes to the site with the hope of finding her long-lost favourite adventure

Barry Miles

Role: Adventure Consumer (Researcher)

Description:

Barry has an adventure planned out, taking elements from multiple adventures, but following the maps and lore of D&D steadfastly needs to find information about the world, potential encounters and campaign ideas to fill the void between two in-game geographical points. He uses the website to get information about adventures that can be used to fill the gap on his player’s journey.

Ross Noble

Role: Adventure Consumer

Description:

Ross has used the site to find adventures previously and has some feedback on an adventure that he used. He’s happy with all of the data that’s present for the adventure, but wants to help other DMs by providing some notes about things to consider, and would like to rate the adventure somehow for other DMs to reference