Fantasy calendars vs. Gregorian calendar

[Desdichado]

J-D, I totally understand what you're saying, and I can appreciate it, I guess I knee-jerked a bit on the implication that the players in my group were lazy. It's a matter of taste, and to many (I'd guess most, but I'd be speculating) the details of the calendar are not what makes roleplaying fun. In fact, having another calendar is just something to keep straight in your head. Your character would probably have the calendar operate on autopilot in his head, the the player, on the other hand, is distracted every time a date is mentioned because it isn't intuitive to him until he's used it a fair amount.

My players certainly aren't lazy just because they don't care for those kinds of details. In fact, if they really did enjoy those kinds of details, they'd probably be homebrew DMs instead of players.

 

[Plane Sailing]

When I played Bushido in Fuedal Japan each month was 3 ten-day weeks. Historically correct? I don't know... but the seven day week would seem to be culturally determined.

n.b. I used to work for Kodak, and old George Eastman never liked the messiness of months and stuff, so in the early 20th centure he decided that Kodak accounting was going to be run on 13 x 4 week "periods". You got payed 1/13th of your salary each period (the net affect of which was that every so often you got paid twice in a month, which was nice!).

Unfortunately in the late 1980's they ditched the system and went to boring old gregorian accounting like everyone else.

Cheers

 

[kingamy]

February: Thawmonth

Man, I'd like to live there, instead of Calgary, where it's more like:

February: Freeze-your-buns-off-month
March: Yes-you-are-still-freezing-month
April: You-thought-it-would-thaw-didnt-you-month
May: Thaw-month-if-you-are-lucky

kingamy