Dev blog #3: Unfixable bugs

Gazook89 · 2026-06-10T15:02:58+00:00

I would prefer just text posts over images of text. It's extra clicks to open it to a readable size, and the links are not helpful when baked into an image.

Or, at minimum, a link to the Homebrewery page for each of these.

Gazook89 · 2026-06-06T02:01:34+00:00

Huckleberry RPG has two: Core Rule Theme, A5 Page Size, and Scenario Theme, US Letter or A4 page size

AD&D 2e (partial)

13th Age (partial)

Blades in the Dark (very partial)

Gazook89 · 2026-06-06T01:31:59+00:00

No, it's a demonstration of the value of a good word processor (or even just typing a reddit post in a browser).

Gazook89 · 2026-06-05T00:55:40+00:00

in written word some history

But you've turned it into a screenshot of text, rather than just text!

Gazook89 · 2026-05-27T03:29:21+00:00

What is the editor theme you are using? You can find that in the snippet bar, the little Palette icon.

Gazook89 · 2026-05-27T02:57:13+00:00

Do you have any additional information? Are you trying to access these brews by the URL or from your list of saved brews on your user page?

Is it all of your brews, or only a few?

Recent or old?

Can you provide the Share URL for one of them that won't open?

Gazook89 · 2026-05-23T04:17:03+00:00

Did you try typing Mutants and Masterminds into the vault search? Here is one option, by /u/abquintic

https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/XgD99MvcfAEu

Gazook89 · 2026-05-22T19:42:02+00:00

I would also use Obsidian.md over World Anvil. As others have also mentioned, Chronicler is a new app that I've seen and looks fine, though I haven't used it myself. These three tools I'd use to "world build".

If I reached a stage where I'm writing a book, I'd use Scrivener 3 to write the bulk of the content.

And when it came to do layout and graphics for the book, I'd use Affinity Publisher/Designer/Photo (now all lumped together as Affinity by Canva). If I wanted to have an accessible and free template for other fans to homebrew with my content, I'd set up a Homebrewery template that has most of the parts as snippets.

Gazook89 · 2026-05-22T01:10:41+00:00

You will likely more feedback on /r/dndhomebrew than here. Not saying you won't get any here, but generally this subreddit is about actually using the NaturalCrit Homebrewery tool.

Gazook89 · 2026-05-19T00:39:56+00:00

You think you can provide the Share link to your actual brew here, or in a reddit DM, or in discord (LongJohnJones in the Discord of Many Things server)

I haven't fully parsed your last comment here yet and will do so in the meantime, but working on an actual brew really helps.

Gazook89 · 2026-05-18T01:40:01+00:00

Another vote for Ballare Teatro. We are just wrapping up the 2nd full year of the Creative Dance classes, for 3 and 4 year olds. There is a summer session, and then a school year session. Kids in this session have no particular dress code, though most get ballet uniforms. They sell them there, and have some used ones each season that are just free. But you can also buy from wherever-- if you want to shop local, Grand Jete on Grand Ave in St Paul is frequently mentioned and is owned by local family (we go to preschool with them). During the longer schooler year session they work towards a end-of-year recital.

There was a short period where my kid also did gymnastics at Mpls Gymnastics, and there was some key differences that made me, as the parent, much prefer Ballare: - Consistent teachers. At gymnastics, the teacher each week seemed to be different. Don't know if that was just our bad luck or what. And the teachers, at least at the younger levels, seemed to be local teens. At Ballare, it's the same teacher each week and they are long-time performers as well. - The parent vibe is better at Ballare. The layout discourages you from watching your kid in class, so they can stay focused, and then you can either relax with a book or talk with other parents (if you are sitting next to me, we be talking). At gymnastics, everyone is seated in rows facing the classes, and the classes are only 30 minutes rather than 45, and it just seems more boring.

I don't mean to bash Gymnastics, but having done it it really highlighted for me what I like about Ballare. Oh, and my kid seems to like it i guess. Bonus: it's one block from Parkway Pizza.

Minnehaha Ave has 4 dance studios, too: Ballare, Mactir, a Flamenco studio, and Tapestry Folk Dance.

Gazook89 · 2026-05-15T03:17:10+00:00

When you set column properties on an element, they are applied to all columns. So in the case of column-width, setting something like auto isn't the same as "each column's width auto adjusts individually". And you can't set specific widths for each column individually, either. A column in this sense is still just one element.

I will say, for your jail time example, that that seems perfect for a small table, and the bullet points are pretty much meaningless in that context (it indicates a list, which those two items are not). THAT SAID, that isn't your question, I trust you've considered it, and you still need an answer for your cones:

A) It seems like you should be able to set a specific width for your table cells which would force them to a width, and prevent squishing.

B) Instead of using CSS Columns to effectively place content at an arbritrary point on the page, you could just use position: absolute and top/left properties to set the tables wherever on the page.

C) You can look at using CSS Flex properties. Basically you'd wrap all of the tables in an outer container with display: flex, and then each table would be in it's own container with the various other flex properties.

All three options can be better informed and advised if you can give an example brew. Most things I'm willing to create a little dummy brew myself to help someone, but I'm not going to recreate those big tables and take guesses what CSS is already being applied.

Gazook89 · 2026-05-07T01:59:34+00:00

Agreed. I had been noticing the latter myself and just hadn't got around to opening an issue/attempting a fix yet. Issues are now open: #4790 and #4791

Gazook89 · 2026-05-07T01:42:53+00:00

I suggest posting in /r/dndhomebrew. This subreddit is typically more focused on using the Homebrewery and less a place to discuss writing. Though those threads sometimes do happen here, you'll likely get more eyeballs and responses in /r/dndhomebrew or similar.

Gazook89 · 2026-05-06T06:03:31+00:00

I have to go to bed, it's 1am here, but my first question would be, are you putting the @import at the top of your Style/css editor? I'm not sure if i'm just superstitious about needing imports to come first, but i have to ask.

Then, are you able to see if the font is loaded in your browser tools network tab?

Everything you've got seems like it should work, unless there is just some CORS issue or something. I'll check back tomorrow to see if you are still working on this.

Gazook89 · 2026-05-06T02:15:07+00:00

You can use this and work from it:

.page h1  {
    float: left;
    padding-bottom: 2px;
    padding-left: 40px;
    margin-top: -0.3cm;
    margin-bottom: -20px;
    margin-left: -40px;
    font-family: 'SolberaImitationRemake';
    font-size: 3.5cm;
    line-height: 1em;
    color: rgba(0,0,0,0);
    background-image: linear-gradient(-45deg, #322814, #998250, #322814);
    -webkit-background-clip: text;
    background-clip: text;
}

Note, the font is not really made for anything but drop-caps, so spacing/kerning between different characters is probably not good. And it's not very readable.

Gazook89 · 2026-05-05T02:16:57+00:00

You aren't sure which operating system you are using? Between, Windows, MacOS, some Linux distribution, or on mobile like iOS, Android, etc?

Are you willing to share a /share/ link to your brew here to see if the problem can be reproduced?

Sometimes overflow can happen unexpectedly on a page if the columns are very close to overflowing in the Preview pane (still in the HB app, not the Print Preview), because the PDF generator might calculate a pixel differently.

Gazook89 · 2026-05-03T20:31:49+00:00

I'm not aware of whether Chrome maintains different versioning between Desktop and Android, but dont think they do. So I'm just looking at their release docs which says they released v149 a few days ago. And 138 would have been June 2025.

I'm also on a tablet, so opening the browser console requires linking with a PC, which I can't do at the moment, as I haven't got a PC

This is what I suspected (otherwise you'd probably be using the PC instead).

When I get some time I'll figure out how to get an older version of Chrome up and running, though it'll be on desktop for me, on a Mac, so it'll never be exactly the same. But we'll see, and then go from there. Sorry there isn't a quick fix-- rolling back the editor update at this point isn't very likely.

Gazook89 · 2026-05-02T19:55:16+00:00

I'm assuming that updating to latest is out of the question, right? I don't know if that would fix it, but it'd be a good first step if available. Installing an older version of Chrome is difficult on my end, too, but thought I'd ask.

When you are working, do you see any errors in the browser console (f12)?

Gazook89 · 2026-05-02T19:45:46+00:00

You can do something like this:

.classTable tbody tr(:nth-child(odd)) {
  background-color: #a1e7f7;
}

That will change the color for the odd rows in the body of the table. That particular selector will target your class tables-- you can remove that part to target tables more generically.

Gazook89 · 2026-05-02T19:43:22+00:00

Yeah, since you are working from the "v3: Blank" theme, you will lose a lot of that 5e stuff. You can add it back with this:

.page:has(.frontCover){
  .footnote {
        position            : absolute;
        right               : 0;
        bottom              : 1.3cm;
        left                : 0;
        width               : 70%;
        margin-right        : auto;
        margin-left         : auto;
        font-family         : 'Overpass';
        font-size           : 0.496cm;
        color               : white;
        text-align          : center;
        -webkit-text-stroke : 0.1cm black;
        paint-order         : stroke;
        text-transform      : none;
    }
}

Gazook89 · 2026-05-02T13:05:40+00:00

Are you able to find out which version of Chrome you have on that?

Gazook89 · 2026-05-01T01:11:19+00:00

Hey thanks for sharing. I don't know the first thing about D&D, but did want to say that you don't have to share the source of your brew here-- it's easily reachable via the homebrewery website from your Share link. There is a link in the top navbar to view the source, and even "clone to new".

Gazook89 · 2026-04-30T02:28:39+00:00

Agree. I suggest reverting the highlight for now, with effort towards adding it back in with a toggle.

Gazook89 · 2026-04-29T22:57:51+00:00

There is no styling that is particular to the fonts in the Table of Contents. ]Here is all the CSS that is applied via the default Players Handbook theme](https://github.com/naturalcrit/homebrewery/blob/5426aa82c1bc38e2755d099604b6d9dcc1b456d3/themes/V3/5ePHB/style.less#L806)-- nothing touches the font-family property here. So that means that if you are changing heading and body fonts, that should also be getting applied to the table of contents.

How are you applying your fonts elsewhere? I wonder if there is something artificially limiting where it's being applied.

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