Crap My Brain Says!

The Mental Musings From The Cluttered Mind of Michael Rainey

Dungeons And Dragons 5e: Hacking The Character Generator

Published 2 years, 4 months past

I usually generate stat blocks for my Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition games to put into my Microsoft OneNote campaign guides, and I always use the generator here at Tetra-Cube to do that. Its arguably the best one to do it that I have found, but I wanted to be able to customize the look of the stat blocks more than what was offered. Here is my attempt at that very thing.

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Migraines Suck!

Published 2 years, 4 months past

A migraine has kept me out of action for the last three days, starting July 4th of all days. No, it wasn’t because of fireworks or idiots that live around me firing guns into the air that day. I woke up with it, like I do most times when I get one.

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Another Small Site Update: Markdown and Shortcodes

Published 2 years, 4 months past

Well I’ve been a busy bee on the server-side coding of this site this past week. Let’s take a quick look at some of the more interesting things I’ve done.

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It's Been A While

Published 2 years, 4 months past

I know it’s been a while since last I posted, but life has a funny way of kicking you while you’re down and keeping you that way. Let me try to put it into words for those that are interested.

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ICONS: Random-Based vs. Point-Based Character Generation

Published 2 years, 9 months past

I’m creating a couple of characters for the ICONS RPG to familiarize myself with the system. I will tell you right now that I hate random character generation. So, when I saw an alternative Point-based system I immediately gravitated towards this option.

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A Small Site Update: Search Available

Published 2 years, 10 months past

As you may or may not know, I built this site … all of it … from the HTML to the CSS to the back-end server programming. Anyway, I digress.

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Things I (Re)Learned Building My Own Site

Published 2 years, 10 months past

I know people who currently have or once had a website at one time or another have thought to themselves “That looks easy enough to do, I’ll do it myself!” Then, after about 5 minutes of trying, those same people have also thought to themselves “This coding stuff is hard!”

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New Year, New Site

Published 2 years, 10 months past

I’ve decided to take the plunge and create a new website to host Crap My Brain Says …

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Generating Attributes For The Black Hack 2e

Published 2 years, 10 months past

I admit. I like to hack the generation of attributes/ability scores/etc. of TTRPGs the most. It’s fairly easy to do.

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The Black Hack 2e: Multiclassing, Levels, and Experience

Published 2 years, 10 months past

Here are some multiclassing rules I’m thinking of toying with when, and if, I run my next The Black Hack 2e game.

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