homebrew VS nix

As a long-time play-by-poster of D&D, yes, it still dominates the TTRPG crowd. I branch out to other game systems myself, but always have at least two or three D&D games going. The game itself is not hated, just the company, and there are enough free resources available online that anyone can play the game without giving WotC a single dime. As far as we're concerned, the game belongs to the players and WotC are nothing more than Interlopers.

Check out https://5e.tools/ for an example of a good free, self-hostable resource.

Please let me know if there are any issues and I'll fix them. The json files for 5e.tools are a little bit irregular so you may run into some errors. Also let me know if there is anything I should change about the conversion method. I'm new to GURPS so some thing may be a little bit unbalanced. This is supposed to be a rough conversion, not a perfect conversion.

I used to love using 5e.tools's Homebrew Builder to enter the details of whatever statblock I was working on, then port the Markdown over to Homebrewery. It was so easy! But it looks like 5e.tools still uses the old Markdown code and hasn't updated to match Homebrewery's changes. This makes statblock format just a bit wonky. Is anyone aware of a website that offers a similar function and is also up to date with Homebrewery?

For planning to multiclass, I would recommend this website https://5e.tools which is a great free resource for all kinds of 5e tabletop mechanics. You will be able to see what abilities your main class is going to get at higher levels, allowing you to plan a multiclass where you don’t miss out on them. Now it’s possible that Larian will make some of the high level abilities available sooner, they aren’t sticking to tabletop rules 100% but have been pretty faithful to them overall.

5e.tools - All 5e D&D official content can be found there. Pair it with the Plutonium Importer for FoundryVTT, and you got yourself all books for free.

You might take a look through 5e.tools and maybe keep it to common or uncommon items. It might even give you a baseline to create your own items and riff off "real" items.

Well, there's some videos on Youtube with tutorials, but the Player's Handbook is always an option. I recommend too the 5e tools website, there you can find almost every information about the game. If you have any specific question, you can always send it here on r/dnd and someone should help you.

I have been using many homebrews on Homebrewery, and I have been using 5e.tools when DMing, but I can't find a way to put the monsters from homebrews on Homebrewery into 5etool's bestiary. Does anyone have a solution I can use?

> https://github.com/NixOS/nix/pull/9911#issuecomment-19252073...

As we covered in my last post, NixOS is a amazing Linux distribution for creating stable and declared environments. Now while this is amazing for a desktop setup, it is also perfect for a home-server or home-lab.

(Nix itself is slowly chugging along with Windows via MinGW - https://discourse.nixos.org/t/nix-on-windows/1113/108 and https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/1320 , for example.)

Nix is a cross-platform package manager. It uses the nix programming language. Nix and NixOs are often used in the same context, but while the first is a package manager, the latter is a linux distribution based on nix.

Today I want to talk to you about Nixos. What is it? Nixos is a declarative and reproducible OS, partly taking the words used on their own page. What does that mean?

Software developers often want to customize:

1. their home environments: for packages (some reach for brew on MacOS) and configurations (dotfiles, and some reach for stow).

2. their development shells: for build dependencies (compilers, SDKs, libraries), tools (LSP, linters, formatters, debuggers), and services (runtime, database). Some reach for devcontainers here.

3. or even their operating systems: for development, for CI, for deployment, or for personal use.

Nix provision all of the above in the same language, with Nixpkgs, NixOS, home-manager, and devShells such as https://devenv.sh/. What's more, Nix is (https://nixos.org/):

- reproducible: what works on your dev machine also works in CI in prod,

- declarative: you version control and review your configurations and infrastructure as code, at a reasonable level of abstraction,

- reliable: all changes are atomic with easy roll back.

Hopping from one distro to another with a different package manager might require some time to adapt. Using a package manager that can be installed on most distro is one way to help you get to work faster. Flatpak is one of them; other alternative are Snap, Nix or Homebrew. Flatpak is a good starter, and if you have a bunch of free time, I suggest trying Nix.

- it reduces bloat, because you can generate an environment or OS image with only the software needed to run a specific program or service

My guess is that a big efficiency gain would come from the second point, because you don't waste CPU on code that you don't use.

Does this make sense? Has anyone explored this?

[0]: https://nixos.org

1) Setting up the development environment - I currently use devcontainers for most things, but may also dig into nix -> isolated, portable, repeatable development environment 2) Exploring Echo - understand routing, requests, response, etc. 3) Incorporate Templ - integration with Echo, template composition, etc. 4) Integrating TailwindCSS - config for use with Echo/Templ, development cycle, deployment, etc. 5) Add in HTMX - endpoints, template structure, concepts, etc. 6) hyperscript for interactivity - client side interactivity