About this site
www.ttrpg-hangout.com, like its sister site www.ttrpg-hangout.social, is a site run by Christer Enfors as a hobby project. The topic is anything that interests me related to tabletop roleplaying games, but with a focus on sandbox fantasy games, both solo and with a group.
This site tries to be optimized for you as the reader, rather than for its author. There are no cookies, no annoying popups, and no ads (but perhaps there will be in the future, if the upkeep costs become too much). The only Javascript it has is for giving the author statistics on which articles are read.
About the author
My name is Christer Enfors, and I've been a RPG enthusiast since the 80's, when I was introduced to the Swedish roleplaying game Drakar och Demoner (since re-released under the name Dragonbane). When we started playing we were around 11 years old, and believe me when I say we had no idea what we were doing. We were playing a game which was loosely inspired by the actual rules of Drakar och Demoner, as well as Drakar och Demoner: Expert. While the Strength attribute was supposed to be somewhere in the 10 - 18 range, it didn't take our PCs long to have Strength surpassing 100.
For one reason or another, my TTRPG hobby then fell to the wayside for a number of years while I instead focused on computers. My most popular computer game category, however, was always fantasy RPGs.
Decades came and went, but in the early fall of 2020, I decided to buy the Dungeons & Dragons Essentials Kit, intending to try to get my children to play it with me. But instead, I ended up playing it with some of my friends. I was the DM for about a year, before another player took the mantle.
Since then, I found a new sub-hobby in solo RPGs. And in the late fall of 2024, I started GMing a homebrew Pathfinder campaign which is still running to this day.
Financial transparency about running costs
Since this site has Ko-Fi donation buttons, and for the sake of transparency, here's a summary of the running costs for this site and its companion site www.ttrpg-hangout.social, as well as the hours spent working on them. This includes all the running costs of both sites from 2026-01-01 to 2026-12-31.
| Item | Sum |
|---|---|
| Hosting & DNS, € | -434.92 |
| Donations received after fees, € | 14.28 |
| Hours spent by the author | 262 |
| Profit/cost per hour worked, € | -1.61 |
| Profit/cost in total | -420.64 |
Running costs
Here's the breakdown on the hosting and DNS costs of both sites, in Euros.
| Item | Monthly, € | Yearly, € |
|---|---|---|
| ttrpg-hangout.social hosting | 16.45 | 197.4 |
| ttrpg-hangout.social DNS | 72.35 | |
| ttrpg-hangout.com hosting | 5.39 | 64.68 |
| ttrpg-hangout.com DNS | 100.49 | |
| Sum, € | 434.92 |
Articles
Here's the amount of time I've spent on writing the articles (and I do write them - they are not written by AI).
| Article | Hours |
|---|---|
| All articles (21) up to 2026-06-10 (estimate) | 84 |
| Articles written or updated after 2026-06-10 | 23 |
| Total | 107 |
Site infrastructure
I've built this site from the ground up (using Python and Flask, for anyone curious). All HTML and CSS is hand-written (except the articles which are converted from Org-mode to HTML by pandoc).
| Infrastructure | Hours |
|---|---|
| Initial build up to 2026-06-10 (estimate) | 150 |
| Infrastructure work after 2026-06-10 | 5 |
| Total | 155 |
Donations & transparency
My content is provided free of charge, and you can use it, for free, with a clear conscience. However, donations on Ko-fi to offset the running costs are gratefully accepted since the site is running at a loss. There are no ads, no popups, no tracking, and thus this site makes no money other than donations.
There is absolutely no pressure to donate. I've chosen to make this site fully expecting to run it at a loss as a hobby project; what makes me the most happy is knowing that my content is available online. If you want to support it without donating, sharing it with your friends to help it reach new readers is also greatly appreciated.
For full transparency, a breakdown of all the costs associated with running this site and its companion site www.ttrpg-hangout.social is available on the About page.