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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr Simon" data-source="post: 3177245" data-attributes="member: 21938">As a player, somewhat.  Sometimes the Gregorian calendar can take you out of the world, but if it's not a particularly deep-immersion game it doesn't matter, and if it's good enough for JRRT...As a DM and world-builder, it depends on the setting.  Generally something close to the real world calendar is good because it produces less confusion, but (having run a long-standing Lakhmar campaign) I like terms like The Month of the Hedghog and so forth.  Usually I will have two or more calendars running simultaneously - a prosaic one and a flowery one.  I've found that it doesn't matter much to game play as most adventures tend to last around a week at most, then skip to the next one, so timings like a full moon (s) can simply be given as "three days away".Pretty much, yes. Again, real world names (typically the extremely common Hebraic ones (like mine!)) tend to spoil the verisimilitude for me, unless the setting pays lip service to being some sort of alternative Earth (although Davids and Pauls seem a bit bland, though, Zachariahs, Jeremiahs, Elis etc. seem to work okay!).  Again, as a player, I can live without it if it's missing (we had a character called Martin in our last campaign  :\ ) but it's better if there is one, unless it's so complicated and restrictive as to be annoying. No.Well, sort of.  Depends again on the nature of the setting, but personally I favour those that have fantastic origins.  They were created by the gods, not by vulcanism and weathering.  That five mile high mountain rising up from the middle of the desert is from where Olog the Mighty threw it at Golden Thog the Grievious, for example.That said, I think that there should be a realistic 'overlay' to these fantastic locations.  Olog's Mountain is going to attract a lot of precipitation and be quite fertile. Because Golden Thog is mashed beneath it, dwarves came to mine for his golden bones, and so forth. Internally consistent, I suppose, is what I'm hoping for.</blockquote>

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