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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 2782931" data-attributes="member: 27051">In general, yes, I keep a close track of the passage of time.&nbsp; I may allow certain periods to get blurry, but they always get centered on a particular date eventually.&nbsp; F.ex. I had a Dark Ages game where the PCs spent &quot;a few months&quot; wandering in the desert, with encounters sprinkled here and there without specifics on how long had passed between them.&nbsp; But when they finally reached the ruins of Ashur, I gave them a precise date to get us back on track with the calendar.&nbsp; I tend to vary between the micro and the macro approach like that, with more emphasis on the micro, overall.(In my long-running fantasy homebrew I used a particularly convoluted calendar.&nbsp; One newer player, despairing of ever understanding it, turned to one of the veterans and said: &quot;Of course, I imagine that you eventually get to grips with it, right?&quot;&nbsp; &quot;No.&nbsp; Never,&quot; was the weary reply... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mark Hope, post: 2782931, member: 27051"] In general, yes, I keep a close track of the passage of time. I may allow certain periods to get blurry, but they always get centered on a particular date eventually. F.ex. I had a Dark Ages game where the PCs spent "a few months" wandering in the desert, with encounters sprinkled here and there without specifics on how long had passed between them. But when they finally reached the ruins of Ashur, I gave them a precise date to get us back on track with the calendar. I tend to vary between the micro and the macro approach like that, with more emphasis on the micro, overall. (In my long-running fantasy homebrew I used a particularly convoluted calendar. One newer player, despairing of ever understanding it, turned to one of the veterans and said: "Of course, I imagine that you eventually get to grips with it, right?" "No. Never," was the weary reply... ;) ) [/QUOTE]

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