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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolv0rine" data-source="post: 3175848" data-attributes="member: 9045">As a player I dislike unique calendars for the sole reason that if it’s February 4th in-game, then I know what that means.  If it’s “Hakenn 4th” or “4thday of Red Eve” I’ve got to think about what that means.  I have to learn the calendar specific for that world to a degree that I know all that Hakken 4th or 4thday of Red Eve imply as much as I do for February 4th.That said, tinkering with the calendar is okay.  I like the simplicity of 12 months, 30 days each.  No leap years, no “30 days hath whatever save for whosits that has 31”.  If you want to rename the months but we all know that Hakken is February, okay I’ll try to roll with it.Definitely.  Names (of places, people, whatever) should fit phonetically into the region they’re a part of.  Don’t name the town in the middle of the Egyptian-based desert “Gainsfjord” please, and don’t name the mountains in fantasy China “Ghilla Mountains”.  I don’t expect the DM (or the writer, depending on whether it’s homebrew world or published) to invent actual languages for different regions (that just puts more of a burden on me as the player to try to learn this make-believe language in part or whole, and..  ahh, no).  Just a little work to try to make things fit their surroundings.It’s a big plus.  Shows the world-builder gave it thought and planning.  That (s)he went out and did some reading and research, because they cared.</blockquote>

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