An under-the-hood cleanup of the development tooling: removed two stale dependency pre-bundling entries that stopped resolving after the switch to pnpm and printed warnings on every dev-server start. No visible changes.

Another round of editor fixes from your feedback. Combobox fields play nicer when they're already filled in, hovering creatures render properly, and the CR suggestions got smarter about which ability actually drives attacks.

Guide chapters now link straight to the part of the editor they talk about — click through and you land on the Identity, Combat, Defense, or Actions section instead of the top of the form. Under the hood, nearly every page of the site is now built ahead of time as plain HTML, so pages load faster and SRD monster pages are fully readable by search engines.

The editor now tells you whether your creature actually fights at its challenge rating. Pick a CR and the editor compares your armor class, hit points, save DC, and attack bonus against the benchmarks from the guide — live, as you type. No more flipping back and forth to the quick-reference table.

Your edits are safer now. The creature editor saves your changes automatically as you work, so switching tabs or closing the page no longer risks losing unsaved edits. A subtle "Saving… / All changes saved" indicator next to the Save button shows where you stand.

Building a creature just got faster. The Traits section now has an **Insert preset** button that opens a searchable library of common D&D traits — Pack Tactics, Magic Resistance, Legendary Resistance, Spellcasting, and many more — so you can drop them in with one click instead of typing them out.

The editor and your library got a visual tidy-up. Each editor section can now be folded away, so you can focus on the part you're working on instead of scrolling past everything else. And on a creature's page in your library, the row of buttons is now a single tidy Actions menu. Statblock text also sits a little tighter, closer to the printed-book look.

A round of fixes for the statblock preview and Homebrewery export. Bold text no longer leaves a stray gap before the punctuation right after it, the Homebrewery export now includes the Initiative line the 2024 stat blocks need, and multi-word skills like Sleight of Hand and Animal Handling capitalize correctly everywhere.

Monsterbrew now reports crashes and unexpected errors on the live site to an error tracker (Sentry), so when something breaks we can see it and fix it without waiting for a bug report. And if a page does crash, you now land on a proper error page with a retry button instead of a wall of technical text. No personal data is collected, and nothing is reported while you use the editor locally or on preview builds.

A second round of editor improvements from your feedback. The combat section now starts with ability scores, since everything else derives from them, and passive perception moved right next to them instead of hiding among the senses. Trait and action fields got their own example placeholders, and the attack and saving-throw helpers became a bit friendlier.

Monsterbrew now ships with a full guide to creating homebrew monsters for the 2024 rules. Seven chapters take you from first concept to playtested creature: what makes a monster fun, how challenge rating really maps to AC, HP, and damage (with a complete benchmark table for CR 0–30), how to budget offense and defense, how to write traits that create decisions at the table, and the classic pitfalls to avoid. It consolidates the best of the community’s design knowledge (the Lazy GM’s Monster Builder Resource Document, Blog of Holding’s 2024 Monster Manual analysis, and Alphastream’s creation process) with full credit to the original creators.

A round of fixes and small improvements straight from your feedback. The editor no longer crashes when you clear the challenge rating, subtypes finally show up on statblocks, and deleting a creature now asks for confirmation first. Initiative also got its own field, so you can override the DEX-based value for creatures that are quicker (or slower) than they look.

Monsterbrew is now much easier to find, and to share. Every page has its own proper title and description, so links you paste into Discord or a group chat show what the page actually is instead of a generic blurb. SRD monster pages are now fully visible to search engines, each with its own title like “Aboleth – CR 10 Large Aberration”, so looking up a monster can land you straight on its statblock. The landing page also gained a short FAQ answering the most common questions about Monsterbrew.

Writing attacks and saving throws is now a one-click affair. Insert a full attack or saving throw line into any description and it shows up as live preview text, computed from your creature's stats. Click the line to adjust the attack kind, to-hit, reach, damage, and more in a small popup. The numbers recompute whenever the creature's ability scores or proficiency bonus change.

A mostly under-the-hood change to how these release notes are produced: entries are now written per change and stamped with their version number automatically when a release goes out. You can also see at a glance which version you're on: it's in the footer of every page, and clicking it brings you here.

Monsterbrew has a new look. The whole app now draws from one carefully tuned color palette.

Monsterbrew now has a direct line for your ideas and bug reports. A new “Send feedback” form in the footer lets you share thoughts in a couple of clicks, no account needed, and lands straight in my inbox. Prefer GitHub? A “Report a bug” link takes you right to the issue tracker.

A small fix for old links: the former My creatures page now sends you straight to the Library, where your saved creatures live today. Bookmarks and links from before the move keep working.

I switched to a new privacy-friendly analytics provider, Umami. As before, there are no cookies, no cross-site tracking, and no personal data collected, only anonymous, aggregated stats that help me understand how Monsterbrew is used. The Privacy page has been updated to match.

Homebrewery and PDF export return, now on the creature detail page. Open any saved creature and use the Export menu to hand off your statblock: as Homebrewery V3 markdown you can copy or download, or as a print-ready PDF styled like an official 2024 statblock.

The changelog page is easier to get around now. A sidebar lists every release, highlights the one you're reading as you scroll, and jumps you straight to any version when you click it.

Saved creatures from before the 3.0 rebuild now upgrade to the current format automatically the first time you open the app. No more per-creature migrate prompt or “Legacy” badges. With every creature on one model, the transitional legacy editor has been retired.

An under-the-hood change to how Monsterbrew loads and saves your creatures. The library and editor now share a single cached data layer, so pages stay in sync and refresh instantly after you save, duplicate, or delete a creature.

The Defense section can now capture the classic “resistant or immune to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from nonmagical weapons” defenses, including the non-silvered variant, and they show up in the statblock automatically.

Action and trait descriptions now speak 5eTools' {@…} tag markup natively. Attack bonuses, save DCs, and damage can be linked to a creature's ability scores so they recompute automatically as you tweak stats, and imported bestiary text renders without any conversion. Every description field gets an Insert menu with a live preview.

The full D&D 2024 SRD bestiary is now built in. Browse and filter the official monsters right inside the library, open any one to view its statblock, and copy it into the editor as a starting point for your own homebrew.

Your saved creatures now live in a redesigned, filterable library that replaces the old table. Search and filter your collection at a glance, with a toggle to switch between your creatures and other sources.

Under-the-hood build tooling upgrade to Vite 8 (with the Rolldown bundler). No visible changes, just a faster, more modern build pipeline that keeps Monsterbrew on solid footing.

A behind-the-scenes fix to the build configuration so production builds output cleanly through Nitro. No user-facing changes.

Monsterbrew now runs on TanStack Start. It's a mostly under-the-hood change that sets up a faster, more resilient app: the marketing pages are server-rendered for better SEO and in-app navigation is snappier. Your saved creatures and the editor keep working exactly as before.

Reorganized the main pages and gave the site footer a fresh rebuild.

The biggest release yet. Monsterbrew has been rebuilt around a new monster model and a redesigned, section-based editor, with a live statblock preview and custom-value overrides. Your existing creatures can be migrated per-creature from the library, and the previous editor stays available at /legacy-editor during the transition.

Presets are now available to use for traits, actions, and legendary actions! You can apply a preset when you add a new trait or action. Markdown is also made available in the description fields. More info on this will follow soon.

Minor UI improvements for number inputs and accessibility.

Version 2.0 of Monsterbrew is finally here. It's been almost a year since the last update! This version brings a complete UI overhaul and improved creature creating! The biggest change is the live form updating. Besides this feature, there are a ton of other improvements as well.