Down to the Wire

Generating Unsupervised Ways to Die: The Making of a D&D Monster Generator

About 6 months ago, I had some downtime while transitioning jobs and decided to look for a project to entertain myself with. I had previously run into Minamaxir’s GPT-2 Magic Card Generator and thought it could be quick and fun to apply that idea to a hobby of my own, Dungeons and Dragons. Such a generator could end up being a useful tool, but more likely I figured I would end up with a toy project to play with while quickly teaching myself a little more about GPT-2. Unfortunately, it didn’t end up being quite as simple as I had imagined.

Toaster Week Part 4: TW2.5 Blazing Flag

It occurred to me about a month ago that I never published author writeups for the “Toaster Wars: Going Rogue” CTF problems from PicoCTF 2017 and PlaidCTF 2017, which is particularly troubling since one of them wasn’t actually solved in contest! To remedy this, and in celebration of the release of a new game in the series that inspired these problems later this week, I’ll be posting writeups for all of the Toaster Wars problems over the course of the week.

For day four, I’ll be talking about the Blazing Flag from PlaidCTF 2017.

Toaster Week Part 3: TW2.5 Light Flag

It occurred to me about a month ago that I never published author writeups for the “Toaster Wars: Going Rogue” CTF problems from PicoCTF 2017 and PlaidCTF 2017, which is particularly troubling since one of them wasn’t actually solved in contest! To remedy this, and in celebration of the release of a new game in the series that inspired these problems later this week, I’ll be posting writeups for all of the Toaster Wars problems over the course of the week.

For day three, I’ll be covering the first of the three Toaster Wars problems from PlaidCTF 2017: the Light Flag.

Toaster Week Part 2: TW_GR_E3_GtI and TW_GR_E4_STW

It occurred to me about a month ago that I never published author writeups for the “Toaster Wars: Going Rogue” CTF problems from PicoCTF 2017 and PlaidCTF 2017, which is particularly troubling since one of them wasn’t actually solved in contest! To remedy this, and in celebration of the release of a new game in the series that inspired these problems later this week, I’ll be posting writeups for all of the Toaster Wars problems over the course of the week.

For day two, I’ll be talking about the harder Toaster Wars problems from PicoCTF 2017: TW_GR_E3_GtI and TW_GR_E4_STW.