Hi! I'm Peter (or at least that's what I go by on the internet). This is my site where I share fun things I've made, homebrew TTRPG content for my friends, and just things I find interesting.

This website started as a way for me and my friends to keep track of homebrew TTRPG content and rules, but it's since expanded to what it is now - a place where I share the things I enjoy in an attempt to bring some joy to other people's lives. There's a little bit more background on the TTRPG stuff and why I made an entire site to keep track of it in the TTRPG Stuff section over in the Table of Contents.

Windy (and a bridge)

I was talking with some coworkers one day about the weather and one of them brought up Windy.com. We pretty quickly got engrossed with the site for a little and explored all the many layers they have.

I saw they had a way to embed a widget into a site, so I decided to add it here. There's a few layer options in the widgets, but the site has more display options like traffic webcams.

Which prompted my coworker to bring up 11foot8, a bridge that used to have an 11 feet and 8 inch clearance (it's now 12 ft. 4 in.) in Durham, North Carolina, U.S. that somewhat regularly sheers off the roof of trucks that think they fit under it. It's also known as the Can Opener Bridge. It even has it's own wikipedia page and subreddit.

Games

In college, I took a video game design class and each assignment was a game and then we had a final project we could do with a partner. Each assignment was about a new game mechanic or programming challenge and had some basic requirements for type of game, but other than that we could do whatever we wanted.

The class used p5.js, a javascript library to make art and animations. Our very first assignment was just getting used to the library and make an animation for a "logo." I don't think we ever used it again, but I made it fruit themed, focused around a watermelon, so I decided to make all my other assignments fruit themed when possible, except for the final project.

For the final project, we could do basically anything we wanted, so my friend and I were ambitious and wanted to make a dungeon crawler. I think it turned out pretty good given the circumastances, but it does leave something to be desired. Namely, a goal. But still, we have equipment and inventory menus, animations, enemies, damage popups, random map generation, some other stuff too.

What I find funny about it is the art. For the class, it had to run without a webserver - it was just an index.html with optional other javascript files. That meant we couldn't insert images as images since p5.js expected a url to an image to load them. So we had to get creative if we wanted good art. I wrote a small program that turned an image file into a javascript file that would create a raster initialized as a gigantic array hardcoded with the rgba values of each image, and that's what we would use to "load in" our images.

No promises the games still work 100% after an update to p5.js, but a friend played them recently and they seemed to be playable for the most part.

Your Terrarium!

One night a friend sent me a tumblr post showing off the font Teranoptia-Furiae. It can be used to make monsters, and I thought they looked like pretty cute and neat little critters, so I made a terrarium to put them in.

Type something in the tall grass; upper- and lower-case letters will have different shapes. Then when you like the critter you found, toss them to the terrarium!

Your terrarium's critters are saved in your local browser's storage.

Tall Grass

Other Fun Stuff!

This is just a section where I'm going to put fun stuff I made or found that don't really fall under a category or aren't big enough to warrant its own category.

The Modern, Western Dragon

My friend invited me to a "Powerpoint Party" where we each show up with a powerpoint and we randomly draw which powerpoint we present without looking at the slides first. We haven't done it yet, but here it is.

DO NOT OPEN IF YOU'RE PART OF THE PARTY
The Modern, Western Dragon

TTRPG Stuff

Back in high school, a friend introduced me to Pathfinder 1e. He DM'd a homebrew campaign for me and some other friends. Eventually, we started college and never finished the campaign, but it stuck with me.

In my second year of college, I made some friends and I started DM'ing my own homebrew campaign for them. It was a homebrew campaign in a homebrew world with a homebrew magic system. Maybe not the best to start off DM'ing, but it was a lot of fun and we all learned how to play togther and also how to balance a system (the magic system needed rebalancing a few times).

Since then, we've done a D&D 5e campaign module, some one shots in 5e and Pathfinder, and other homebrew campaigns with more homebrew systems. We prefer Pathfinder 1e over D&D 5e since it allows more customization for characters. It does lead to some WACKY characters though.

And we continue to really enjoy custom magic systems.

So to keep track of all the homebrew content, I started a site to keep it all straight. That site eventually expanded and lead to this website with all sorts of other stuff.

Enter the Homebrew Madness