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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 5751127" data-attributes="member: 25619">I'm similar.- Dates: I track the date and time, continuously.  I use a normal Gregorian calendar for this, even though I play in Greyhawk.  Just easier, I think.- Weather:  I track this whenever PC's are outdoor, by random determination for the day with 2d10's.    ---- The first is the "stormometer" -- higher rolls means precipitation/storminess, lower rolls means blue skies.    ---- The second is the temperature.  Actual outcomes are related to the previous day's weather, the time of year, and the terrain.    ---- So if it was overcast and windy on the previous day, and your in the mountains in Fall, and a I roll a 10 for storminess and 1 for temperature, oh boy, mountain blizzard!  But if you were in a plain in the summer, the same dice results would be huge thunderstorm, spinning off some funnel clouds.- Moon Phases:  I don't track this, unless the plot involves lycanthropes, in which case -- whaddya know, the full moon is coming soon!- Equinox, Solstice, and Time of Sunset/Sunrise:  I make holidays of the equinoxes and solstices.I make daylight much longer in the summer than in the winter (e.g., 4 am to 8 pm near the summer solstice, 8 am to 4 pm near winter solstice, semi-close to how it actually is in Seattle where I live, and simple to use -- with no Daylight Savings Time, of course.)  The Daylight hours are important for travel and for clerics who regain spells at dawn (like clerics of Pelor).</blockquote>

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