Homebrewery User Guide
Audience: First-time authors who want D&D-style pages without a layout app
Product: The Homebrewery (NaturalCrit)
Renderer: V3 (recommended for new documents)
Last updated: 10 October 2026
This basic guide walks you from a blank brew to a printable PDF, and covers the most known and basic snippets you will find in the app, to help you start your journey to creating your very first professional looking 5e module. You do not need to memorize every snippet. Homebrewery injects the hard parts for you; you only need a few Markdown habits and a handful of Homebrewery-specific lines.
1. What Homebrewery is
Homebrewery is a browser-based editor that turns Markdown into pages that look like official fifth-edition Dungeons & Dragons books: parchment backgrounds, two-column body text, class tables, notes, and monster stat blocks.
You type on the left. A live preview updates on the right. Snippets in the toolbar insert ready-made PHB-style blocks so you rarely have to build a layout from scratch.
What it is good at
- Adventure text, subclasses, spells, magic items, and bestiary pages
- Sharing a live link with playtesters
- Printing a letter-sized PDF that matches the preview
What it is not
- A word processor with automatic pagination (you place page breaks yourself)
- An official Wizards of the Coast product (you are responsible for the licenses on any art or text you publish)
If something looks “off,” it is usually a missing page break, overflowing columns, or print settings—not a broken document. The later chapters cover those cases.