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Papyrus Creator Defends Font After Saturday Night Live

When Saturday Night Live returned for its 43rd season this weekend, the most talked-about moment on Sunday wasn’t the Emma Stone cameo or Alec Baldwin’s return as President Donald Trump. Instead, it was a late-in-the-show pretaped sketch starring host Ryan Gosling as a man who can’t stop thinking about the fact that James Cameron’s Avatar used the font Papyrus. “I forgot about it for years,” Gosling muses in the sketch, “but then I remembered that Avatar, the giant international blockbuster, used the Papyrus font as its logo.

Rules FAQ - How Does Mounted Combat Work in D&D 5E?

Mounted combat in D&D is often a point of confusion because unlike past editions, the systems for it are fairly slim.This is the part of a weekly series of articles by a team of designers answering D&D questions for beginners. Feel free to discuss the article and add your insights or comments! Mounting A Creature To mount a creature: You must be within 5 feet of it. It must be willing to bear you as a rider.

Steady ascent or sudden splash? North Carolina governor's race features men who took different paths

ROXBORO, N.C. -- One candidate is an Ivy League-educated attorney who over 25 years amassed allies as he climbed North Carolina's Democratic ladder. The other is a former furniture factory worker with a history of blunt commentary who plowed into Republican politics four years ago after a viral video on gun rights vaulted him to prominence. While taking dramatically different paths, Attorney General Josh Stein and Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson have emerged as front-runners for their parties' nominations for governor next month in the race to succeed term-limited Democrat Roy Cooper in the nation's ninth-largest state.

The TOO MUCH SETTING issue (SPIRE reviewed by SU&SD)

Recently, one of my favourite board game review channels, Shut Up & Sit Down, did a cracking review of SPIRE by Rowan, Rook and Decard. Now, reviewer Quinns pointed out that while SPIRE has a terrific campaign concept, the sheer amount of lore and setting that players are expected to know, playing natives of Spire, can be overwhelming and he as a GM had a tough time explaining all of it.

Trump returns to site formerly known as Twitter, posts his mug shot shortly after Georgia surrender

NEW YORK (AP) — Former President Donald Trump has returned to X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, firing off his first message in more than 2 1/2 years shortly after he surrendered at an Atlanta jail on charges he conspired to overturn his election loss. He posted a photo of his mug shot and the words “Election interference. Never surrender!” along with a link to his website, which directs to a fundraising page.