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This is an awesome flashback / forward for me.
Back in the late 70’s TSR put out a lovely four-page character “folder” for AD&D. The style was very similar to the famous “goldenrod” character sheets except these were printed on thicker white paper stock, with blue ink on two sheets and black on the other two, and the border extends all around the sheet instead of on three of four sides.
In fact, they looked a lot like this:
But this is actually a Fifth Edition Dungeons & Dragons character sheet done up in that same style by Paul Longino (who goes by the name of MexicanTappingWhale on Reddit). When I first saw them on Reddit I immediately reposted them to my google+ feed where they got a crap-ton of positive feedback (and where a lot of people mistook the white permanent folders for the more memorable goldenrod character sheets)
Thus I am very excited to be able to host these sheets for anyone who wants them – they are actually five pages instead of four, but you can pick and choose between the two different spell sheets as the third page.
You can download the character sheet by clicking on this link.
Dyson's Dodecahedron 
That is really cool! I am going to have to print a few of these out. Now where did I leave my goldenrod paper…
Another Erol Otus classic!
Any way to get a form-fillable version?
Absolutely!
Download it and use Acrobat to make it form-fillable!
(Snarkasm aside, totally not in my skillset)
This is badass! I will definitely be using this.
Also, if no one does it before then, I will endeavor to make a form-fillable version once I am no longer in convention mode (~march 5th).
That would be AWESOME!
Soo.. you may have noticed that I COMPLETELY forgot about this.. and as luck would have it, I’m in the run-up to another convention (PAX Prime, woot). Anyway, it looks like no one else has done it yet, so I’ll put a reminder in my phone to get on it after PAX!
First page done. Now for the really fiddly bits.
Also, for some reason I can’t log in through g+ when I comment anymore, never “connects” to g+.
All done! I used the corrected version J.Benjamin W posted in these comments below, cause I like clean borders etc. Here it is in my google drive.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BwsqKDYQttomdzNCUTBrUHhGU28/view?usp=sharing
Dyson, if you want to host it alongside the no form version above, feel free!
Jeff, thanks for this!
Thanks for doing this. I know how much a pain something like this can be. I’m sharing it with my Old School group on Facebook.
Ahhh, the memories, I still have AD&D 1st Edition characters on that original goldenrod paper in all of my stuff. Thanks for putting those up, I am going to show friends after I print off a few for myself.
Ooh! Neat! I do wish he’d have had a “gender” box instead of or in addition to the “sex” box– between the number of trans people in my group (self included) and my personal fondness for societies and subcultures that blur the binary, at my table one isn’t always indicative of the other.
Spectacular work. I tip my hat to you, good sir! This is fantastic.
I have the 1e version that the “Mad Irishman” did as a PDF. I love that people are taking the time to do stuff like this. Old and New at the same time.
This is pretty nice. I love the old school aesthetics and sensibilities. Having said that, it looks like a couple of the header images get a bit fuzzy. I’m looking at the “Spells” header on pages 3 & 4 and the “Dungeons & Dragons” header on page 1 in particular.
These might not have any difficulty in the final print, but I’m a bit of a perfectionist, and so… I cleaned up the headers, and the borders.
If any one is interested you can download the file here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-oB8M1OI_ctbkUwWmlvWG5faGs/view?usp=sharing
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This is amazing!
This is awesome. I shared this with my Old school group on Facebook.
Also the fillable version as well. Well done all!