Another RPG campaign that never got played. This one was for Mutants & Masterminds. The central idea was that this would be an episodic campaign using pre-generated characters representing the major Marvel super-heroes. Each game session would be like a comic book issue, with each issue introducing plot points and puzzle pieces leading to a big finish to the campaign. So, I created an outline of six “issues” for three different Marvel groups: the Fantastic Four, the X-Men, and the Avengers. I figured an advantage to that approach would be that whatever players were playing that session would have a choice of the three. Once enough of the “issues” got played, there would be enough story elements revealed to play the grand finale. Each “issue” would be short enough that two of them should be playable in a game session.
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Star Trek Timeline and Strategic Analysis
I wrote this several years ago in a fit of fannish pedantry. Utterly useless, of course, but kind of fun (at least to me).
Star Trek Timeline
Every Star Trek series since the original has subtly, or not so subtly, shifted the historical assumptions underlying the Star Trek historical timeline. Even the movie series introduces different implications than the original series. This timeline is an attempt to show a conjectural Star Trek historical timeline that views the original series as canon, without regard to subsequent interpretations. There will be some borrowing of ideas from later series, but only as a means of filling out incomplete information. The following is an outline of the historical data from ST:TOS, followed by conjectures based on ST:TOS, and then the complete timeline chart.
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How much would one of those D&D coins really be worth?
2014 figures
Element | Price per ounce | Comparison to Gold |
Copper | $ 0.21 | 0.000227298 |
Nickel | $ 0.63 | 0.000688781 |
Silver | $ 16.81 | 0.018525457 |
Palladium | $ 410.00 | 0.451840423 |
Electrum* | $ 462.11 | 0.509262729 |
Gold | $ 907.40 | 1 |
Platinum | $ 1,768.50 | 1.948975094 |
*Electrum is an alloy of 50% Gold and 50% Silver by weight | ||
1pp~2gp~4ep~200sp~68,000np~22,000cp |