# The Homebrewery
Welcome traveler from an antique land. Please sit and tell us of what you have seen. The unheard of monsters, who slither and bite. Tell us of the wondrous items and and artifacts you have found, their mysteries yet to be unlocked. Of the vexing vocations and surprising skills you have seen.
### Homebrew D&D made easy
The Homebrewery allows for the creation and sharing of authentic looking Fifth-Edition homebrews, with just text editing. It accomplishes this by using [Markdown](https://help.github.com/articles/markdown-basics/) along with some custom CSS-styling.
Stop worrying about learning Photoshop, fiddling with spacing, or tracking down the PHB assets. Just focus on making your homebrew **great**.
**Try it! **Simply edit the text on the left and watch it *update live* on the right.
#### Features
* Monster Stat Blocks
* Full class tables
* Notes and Tables
* Images
* Vertical spacing, column breaks, and multiple pages
#### Snippets
If you aren't used the Markdown-style syntax, don't worry! I've provided several **snippets** at the top of the editor. When clicked, these will *inject* text wherever your text cursor was.
Each snippet is a common format from the Player's Handbook or is a feature of The Homebrewery. You'll never have to memorize exactly how a Monster Stat Block is suppose to be formatted.
### Editing and Sharing
When you create your own homebrew you will be given a *edit url* and a *share url*. Any changes you make will be automatically saved to the database within a few seconds. Anyone with the edit url will be able to make edits to your homebrew. So be careful about who you share it with.
Anyone with the *share url* will be able to access a read-only version of your homebrew.
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## New Things in v1.4!
What's new in the latest update? Check out the full changelog [here](/homebrew/changelog)
* **Partial Page Rendering** Only renders the page you're looking at. If you have a very large brew, you'll love this.
* **Improved Zoom** Zooming in and out on the browser is now way nicer looking. Go get the bird's eye view!
>##### PDF Exporting
> Follow these steps to export your brew to PDF
> * Create a breath-taking homebrew
> * Share it with a few friends for feedback and balance
> * Install [Chrome Canary](https://www.google.com/chrome/browser/canary.html)
> * Go to your brew on Chrome Canary
> * Hit the **Print View** button
> * Print that page. Make sure the paper size is **letter**
> * You're done!
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> Due to a bug in Chrome's Print To PDF feature, columns aren't supported. The fix to this has been released in Chrome Canary.
## Bugs, Issues, Suggestions?
Have an idea of how to make The Homebrewery better? Or did you find something that wasn't quite right? Head [here](https://github.com/stolksdorf/NaturalCrit/issues/new) and let me know!.
You can also checkout the [Changelog here](/homebrew/changelog).
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# Appendix
### Not quite Markdown
Although the Homebrewery uses Markdown, to get all the styling features from the PHB, we had to get a little creative. Some base HTML elements are not used as expected and I've had to include a few new keywords.
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* **Horizontal Rules** are generally used to *modify* existing elements into a different style. For example, a horizontal rule before a blockquote will give it the style of a Monster Stat Block instead of a note.
* **New Pages** are controlled by the author. It's impossible for the site to detect when the end of a page is reached, so indicate you'd like to start a new page, use the new page snippet to get the syntax.
* **Code Blocks** are used only to indicate column breaks. Since they don't allow for styling within them, they weren't that useful to use.
* **HTML** can be used to get *just* the right look for your homebrew. I've included some examples in the snippet icons above the editor.
### Images
Images can be included 'inline' with the text using Markdown-style images. However for background images more control is needed.
Background images should be included as HTML-style img tags. Using inline CSS you can precisely position your image where you'd like it to be. The image **snippet** provides an example of doing this.
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### Legal Junk
You are free to use The Homebrewery is any way that you want, except for claiming that you made it yourself. If you wish to sell or in some way gain profit for what's created on this site, it's your responsibility to ensure you have the proper licenses/rights for any images or resources used.
### Things that don't work
There are a few things I couldn't get right
* Spell save block, with centered text and sans serif are not support. Ran out of mark-up to use
* "Spell slots per level" text above the levels on a class table.
* I built this for Chrome, so if it looks weird to you, use Chrome instead.
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