Site News

Code changes

Made the code that calculated the date-time in the footer of the printed character sheet page update every minute. Implemented as a composable instead of scattering the code across 3 files.

Now in order to make other pages printable like the character sheet pages are, you only need to add the following code to the setup of the page's Vue.js component:

<script setup>
  
usePrintSetup();

</script>

Content changes

Also discovered and fixed some broken links on some of the tatterpedia pages.

Added CSS print styles to allow printing character sheets.

Added some details of how Calcoran Schools sapients are named.

Added Dr. Ridley 6ad-Bayanul-Longshores-Swifttide aan Caast-Foundling, PhD (Bea's character) for One Shot 4.

Added Fria Sun (Jon's character) for One Shot 4.

Added Avery Johnson (Chance's character) for One Shot 4.

Added Jon's Tardigrada images to the codebase, referenced them on Dwabit's character sheet and in the Tatterpedia article on Sapient Species.

Added a character creation rules & systems page.

Added data structures and UI for multiple character sheet images. Click on image in UI to switch to prev or next one.

Added images for Vat clones, referenced them on Scout 430061377 PC character sheet for reference.

A new player joined our group, added new player character for Ann, Kiowynne.

Updated character sheet for Delilah Lands, filled out more aspects, added skills, added a stunt.

Updated character sheet for Scout 4e0061377, added skills.

Added session 1 / episode 5 summary.

Code changes

Tweaked character sheet aspect description to not have a margin after the last paragraph in the description. It was pushing the next character aspect down.

Added support for markdown in the stunt description field.

Campaign 2 Setting Updates

Added session summary for 2026-06-13 Session 0 (Episode 1-3, and 4.)

Added Faces and Places from Session 0 and episode 4.

Added aspect descriptions to Jon's character Dwabit, updated skills.

Updated Pete's character Scout's character sheet.

Added new Aspects to Captain Martinez's sheet.

Added images for session summary: Blackadders tartan, and Port Rails renders.

Added URLs to cluster data for systems in new cluster.

Updated environment attribute to the Salara system to bring it inline with new description of Salara.

Code changes

• Added support for xx-small size images for the markdown image component.

Fixed typo in session 0a summary.

Added Port Rails page.

Added some more details to the Factions page.

Added links to Gaia and Port Rails pages to the Torrin system page.

Added history of cluster page.

Added Sariant image to sapient species page.

Code changes

Fixed underline for empty consequences and empty character aspect slots.

Fixed underline for empty consequences and empty character aspect slots.

Added ship character sheet for the NED Tugboat.

Removed ID column from the characters list page.

Added link to campaign 2 characters list to the site home page.

Added image for an old Vat clone.

Added Sariant image that has been sitting in my Downloads folder for a long time.

Fixed formatting for Mediocre traits' rank.

Updated info on campaign 2 cluster, session 0 summary.

Added tatterpedia place entries for Torrin and Cyron

Added new sapient species "Tardigrada"

Added session summary for one shot 3, where the player characters Ikari Kintsugi and Dalton Murrieta were in the wrong place and the wrong time and came under suspicion for the murder of Lady Charrisse Grant of Golden Seed.

Updated the character sheet for Delano Mack.

Aspects in the data structure have always had a description property. I updated the character sheet page Aspect component to render that in an accordion style view.

Added in a simple character sheet and the data structures for most any type of Fate character or extra.

I also added PCs from our first campaign.

Check out the character list page!

Dependency updates

A problem with these big frameworks like Vuejs and Nuxt is that you have to spend a lot of time understanding the dependencies between the different libraries used in the frameworks. Using dependency managers like npm, composer, or mvn, help, but they can also mask details that may be important.

The following table contains the list of libraries used by the In Dire Straits web site that were updated in the latest set of updates. It didn't take much work to get them updated, I ran npm audit --fix, waited for it to finish, rebuilt, tested the site locally, committed the dependency file package-lock.json, deployed it to a test environment in Vercel, tested there.

Finally, I reviewed the diff of the package-lock.json file to see what got updated, and built this news update, including the long table below this paragraph.

Content session refactoring

Since I hope to be starting the second campaign in this setting soon, I refactored the configuration and some code so that the session summaries are grouped by campaign.

This included separating out the news stories and campaign session summaries from the "tatterpedia" and "rules and systems" sections, mostly to simplify the way the breadcrumbs work.

Dependency updates

Updated the following dependent library versions:

Implemented a buggy inter-cluster capable journey planner, with a popup that lists most of the possible paths between 2 selected systems, either inside of a single cluster, or between 2 clusters.

Updated the following dependent library versions:

Finally, I added cluster straits to the site!

Cluster straits are those straits between systems in two different clusters. In the setting, cluster straits are harder to navigate safely than regular straits.

The maps page and the individual cluster map pages show the cluster straits as orange curvy lines, with a label naming the system on the other end of the cluster strait.

In Dire Straits Local Cluster

On the individual cluster map pages, clicking on the cluster strait or its label navigates to the cluster map for the other end of the cluster strait.

I need to work on the code to position the cluster strait labels, they are currently positioned to where the cluster strait would be if it was drawn as a straight line.

Also, after staring at these maps for hours while working on the code, I decided I liked the "circular" view of the map, so I changed the default to that view.

Next up: Fix the labels, tweak the positioning of the cluster strait lines so they curve around the systems in the cluster (instead of sometimes running underneath them,) adding a page that shows all the clusters in relationship to each other, and adding the ability to plan a trip between clusters.

Also, updated the following dependent library versions:

Added a cheat sheet for creating adversaries from the Fate Adversary Toolkit.

Updated the following dependent library versions:

Updated the following dependent library versions:

Updated the following dependent library versions:

Game Information

I re-worked some of the text for the Local Cluster Creation page and added diagrams for the "Link systems" example section. I also added a short description of how we allowed players to modify system attributes after systems were linked up with FTL routes.

New Features

Reworked the pages that were image heavy (like the sapient species page) so that links from the table of contents were not nerfed by the Markdown rendering engine.

Game Information

Today I updated the summary for Game Session 16 and added a summary for Game Session 17.

New Features

• I added a news section for little notes like this.
• Last week I changed the cluster maps page so that there was a separate page for each cluster, including a page with a nice list of clusters.
• I'm continuing to work on user registration process, adding in email capability for email verification and password reset. I want to get this finished before I start work on editing these pages in-place.