Index: What is on the Bear It Blog?

As on early 2020 there are a bunch of assorted tidbits on this blog.  Enough of them that I am sometimes challenged finding what I know must be here somewhere.  This post will be my ongoing attempt at maintaining a navigation post for the content.  It isn't properly a table of contents or an index, but something in between.

Before getting into creating groupings of internal links, I want to point out to the reader that there are two search blocks on this blog (both do the same thing).  One is at the top left of page, the other is in the right side bar.  Either can be used to search for a topic/word within teh scope of the BearItD&D blog.

This post is also linked from the page header: INDEX.

PDF Busting Links

Some of my documents include a reference to an internal portion of a page.  Something like this:

https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dmg/between-adventures#TrainingtoGainLevels

In teh original document will link to the file specified before the pound sign (hashtag for you young'ns) and then jump to the internal is that follows the pound sign. A problem occurs when converting to PDF format.  The above ends up like this:

https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dmg/between-adventures%23TrainingtoGainLevels

It's kind of the same, in that %23 is the code for our friend the pound sign, but it will get a 404 error when followed.

A quick workaround is to shorten the link with bitly.  Just pop the URL into the page at bitly.com and use the short form, which for this case will be:

  https://bit.ly/2UUq1VC

 That's it.

Discord Server

I just setup a Discord server tto be used as an augment to campaigns I am playing in.  A link is provided in the list to the right and below.

Bear It D&D Discord Server

Much of the content on the server will be private.  You will need to join the server and let Joe know your discord name so that he can set your access appropriately.

Starting a New Blog

This blog is intended to provide a place to share information about D&D campaigns that we play in and to hold handy links that we want other participants in the campaign to have access too.  Some of the posts will be session logs or descriptions others may be about D&D in general or other related topics.