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Unpainted miniature from 1983, by Grenadier Models, Inc.

Chris Achilleos has passed away.

Come by way of James Maliszewski for Goodman Games:

It's real: JMS confirms that a reboot of Babylon 5 is in the works. I for one am looking forward to seeing the new show when it debuts.

https://web.archive.org/web/20181023202614/https://sites.google.com/site/wormycollected/Home

For future reference, should I want to make something which uses a similar styling:

http://mystara.thorf.co.uk/fontfaq.php

Appendix N.

Today is the last day of the 31-day Character Creation challenge. This time, instead of rolling up a character, I thought I'd report on something I've been working on and off for the past year or so.

Sometime during the last few months of 2019, I became interested in rolling up characters using only 3d6 in order per the original D&D method, just to see what outcomes were to be had. But because I was lazy, or didn't have a whole lot of time on my hands, I decided to conduct the experiment using BASIC running on an emulated Commodore machine.

I'm back at it, in spite of having skipped the past 9 days. This time, it's for AD&D, first edition. 

As a distraction from recent events, I've elected to participate in