The Eren Chronicles — Tabletop RPG Portfolio Site

Portfolio website for The Eren Chronicles, a tabletop-RPG authors' collective. Paid freelance engagement, built end-to-end as a solo developer in roughly 5-6 weeks.

The challenge: the collective needed a public-facing home for their world-building, campaigns, and author profiles, but had no existing site, no CMS, and a non-technical team that needed to manage content independently after handoff.

The result: a fully custom site and CMS delivered from empty repos to production in under 6 weeks, with the client team publishing content on their own from day one after handoff.

Next.js 12 + TypeScript + Tailwind CSS deployed on Vercel for the frontend. Strapi CMS on Heroku for content management, set up entirely from scratch: content types, API endpoints, media handling, and admin configuration. Nothing was inherited or pre-existing; both the site and the CMS were built from zero.

The main discovery surface for the collective's published works. Pulls book data from Strapi and renders a browsable catalog with cover art, descriptions, and filtering.

Each book has its own page with full descriptions, author credits, campaign details, and related content. These pages are fully CMS-driven, so the authors can add, edit, and reorder books without touching code.

Handled the full project lifecycle solo: requirements gathering with the client, technical architecture decisions, frontend and CMS development, deployment to Vercel and Heroku, and handoff with documentation so the non-technical team could manage content independently. The site shipped fast, responsive, and content-editor-friendly.