D&D (2024) I have the DMG. AMA!

[Plaguescarred]

Anything on half-species or it's silence radio?

 

[darjr]

Anything on half-species or it's silence radio?

Nothing I can find.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

@FitzTheRuke is there anything on downtime activities besides the bastions?

I haven't found any, no.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

@Snarf Zagyg Hey, Snarf, did your Greyhawk question get answered? I remember reading your question, and then I went to have a look, and then my wife asked me something, and then I got busy doing something else, and then I never found the answer. Now I don't remember the question.

 

[Velderan]

I think Dragonlance went really weirdly hard with calendar shenanigans, IIRC.

It depends what you mean by really weirdly hard. In the 2e setting material, it used a basic 7 day and 12 month calendar. They did however have a different name for the days and months based on culture, which was generally consistent with how the setting in 2e handled things like languages and such.

 

[Parmandur]

@Snarf Zagyg Hey, Snarf, did your Greyhawk question get answered? I remember reading your question, and then I went to have a look, and then my wife asked me something, and then I got busy doing something else, and then I never found the answer. Now I don't remember the question.

I answered it in the Greyhawk thread, yup: the book has a line mentioning thst people live on the Nyr Dyv on batges, but spends exactly 0 time indulging in Romani sterotyping.

 

[Parmandur]

It depends what you mean by really weirdly hard. In the 2e setting material, it used a basic 7 day and 12 month calendar. They did however have a different name for the days and months based on culture, which was generally consistent with how the setting in 2e handled things like languages and such.

My knowledge of Dragonlance is 30 years old (which is impressive, since I'm not 40 yet) but I sweat I remember some complex bizarre timekeeping charts. Might have just been the Moon cycles?

 

[Yaarel]

I wish they would either find a different way of tracking time for these things to account for settings, like the Forgotten Realms, that don't use a 7-day week, or change the FR's calendar so that it is based on a 7-day week instead of a 10-day one. Because it can be a real pain adapting these things when running games in FR (and settings like it). (At least with many of the 2014 downtime rules, they were based on 5-day increments, so you could rule that two activities could be accomplished per 10-day "week".)

The calendar is a setting decision. It seems easy to have setting variant that counts 10-day Bastion turns, and treats all 7-day weeks as 10-day weeks instead.

 

[Velderan]

My knowledge of Dragonlance is 30 years old (which is impressive, since I'm not 40 yet) but I sweat I remember some complex bizarre timekeeping charts. Might have just been the Moon cycles?

That was it. There were 3 moons and each order of wizard received different bonuses and penalties based on what phase their moon was in. Neat idea, I don’t know anyone who ever actually used it. We tried it for a couple sessions and decided it wasn’t worth the effort.

 

[Yaarel]

Anything on half-species or it's silence radio?

I forgot about that.

Yeah. The "mixed species". What is going on here.

The only thing I came across was modifying a "creature".

It could be, 2024 reconceptualizing "species" (as opposed to human "races"), means it doesnt normally reproduce with other species.