(Adjust your clocks!) Spring Ahead, Fall Behind and Time-Keeping in your World!

[Mark]

Aside from the fact that this is a reminder to set your clocks ahead if you live in a Daylights Saving Time Zone area at 2am on the first Sunday in April, let's share...

How do people keep time in your games?

 

[alsih2o]

my world is has a pantheon based on celestial bodies, so timekeeping and calendar variations are big, and thanks for the reminder

 

[LostSoul]

Wasn't there a few hours out of the day - Vespers and Nines or something like that - that people knew about? Otherwise, you'd be able to guess Noon, Dusk, Dawn, midday, midmorn, and that's about it.

Unless you're a Ranger. But that class is too munchkin anyways.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Little Demons of course!


...don't you people read Discworld?

 

[Mark]

Little Demons of course!


...don't you people read Discworld?

Works for Personal Organizers, too, eh?

 

[Nifft]

Cantrips (and Orisons). The equivalent of "Know Direction".

-- Nifft

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

Works for Personal Organizers, too, eh?

And picture boxes.

 

[Zappo]

In my Planescape game there are commonly available non-magical clocks up to pendulums. In my Dragonlance game, the average timekeeping technology is somewhat lower.

 

[Dave G]

This is a good question! I'm getting ready to begin running a city campaign, and I'm hoping to help do this through the changing of the guards.

At least in the character's home neighborhood, they will know its Second watch when they see good old Officer Barbrady telling the crowd "nothing to see here, please move along."

In urban areas, did people really call out "Seven o'clock and all's well!" ?

Also the Steam Gnomes might actually have a time-keeper in the city, but I'm still reading the book.

I really don't know how life in the medieval cities really was, Did shops really close up at dark every day? I might have to make this place a little more progressive if that's the case, especially if these characters are all wanting to be part of one guild or religion or something at the start of game...

 

[Aeolius]

As my campaign is set beneath the surface of the sea, there are times when the party spends extended visits to the depths. There they rely upon shifting tides and currents, to approximate the time of day.