Gnat the Beggar wrote:Is that the same re-printed map I bought from you about two years ago?That one did not include a certificate.Is that new just for the NKGs printings?
Bill Owen wrote:2. Meanwhile, I was wondering about inflation and had a wild hair to look up shadowstats.com which is the gold standard for calculating real inflation rather than the bizarrely cooked statistics that the government foists off (so that they can lower social security payments etc.). Taking the City State package of $9, the government says that it should go for $41 36 years later, implying that the dollar has lost about 78% of its value. But shadowstats says $161! Or 94% of its value (sounds about right).
Yes I received the previous 25.23 check mentioned but, (true story -- can't make this up) had a wounded tomcat hop up onto my desk and bleed all over it, while I was away. I did not wish to deliver a check to the bank looking as if it came from Sharon Tate's house, so I discarded it. You can stop the payment on it, if you wish. No biggie (:
Zenopus wrote:snip(1) You were the editor of JGJ in mid-1977. Did you write these Jocular Judgements columns? The section below it, Shrewd Slants from a Sagacious Sage, is signed in each issue (to Bill in M, and to Maed Makiskatakor in N), but JJ is not signed and it's sort of an editorial so I thought you might have written them. (2) Even if you didn't do you have any memories of JJ receiving the pre-publication copy of the rules?(3) Did the new Basic Set inspire JG in any way? I'm not sure if any the JG modules from 77-80 are specifically for low level, but they did eventually release some introductory level modules for AD&D in 1981-82 (Trial by Fire, Corsairs of Tallibar, each by Mike Wilson and reviewed here on the Acaeum by Gnat the Beggar).
Zenopus wrote:Bill, if you could be so kind, please take a look at my post about The Judges Guild Journal issues M (June/July 77)
Bill Owen wrote:Not really. I've read a bit too. He's over on the main island that most people visit (Ambergris Caye). I'm on the mainland, 75 miles inland on Guatemalan border and much more sedate and secure here.Many of have wished for great wealth and he may be an all-too-common tale of how that might work out.