Overview
As a Dungeons and Dragons DM, I’m always looking for tools that reduce creative overhead. Traps bring an interesting tension to Dungeons and Dragons, but are time-consuming to create.
Exploding Treasure Chest is an app that generates complete, random traps. It's a tool for DMs who want to sprinkle traps into their homebrew campaigns but save time for creating the rest of their campaign.
Under the Hood
Exploding Treasure Chest is a progressive web app, able to be used in a browser or downloaded to a device without the need of an app store. It was created with Ionic, a framework for building cross-platform apps, and Angular. The back-end is an Express.js REST API with a PostgreSQL database.