Needing a fantasy calendar maker

[Melayl]

I'm creating a new world, and I'm giving it a new calendar system. I've got the months and such figured out, but I'd like a program to plug all of it into. That way, I can plot out all the significant events in the history and future and know what day of the week/month/lunar cycle/etc they fall on.

Anybody know of a program that could do that?

 

[azhrei_fje]

Yeah, I used such a tool. It let you input the number of moons, the tilt of the planet, and so on, so that it could calculate sunrise/sunset, moonrises/moonsets, and so on. Of course, I told it I wanted months with exactly 4 weeks of 7 days for simplicity (!) but it could handle a lot more.

The output was just ASCII text (although nicely formatted) so that I could just edit it to add special events. It was one day per line and it could add random events (shooting star or other special effects), so I let it do those and then added religious holidays and such by just editing the text.

I don't know where I got it, though. And my D&D archives are at home, currently about 8,500 miles away! I'm fairly certain I don't have that stuff on my laptop, but I'll look anyway.

 

[Melayl]

Sounds like that could work. I don't know the tilt of my earth, but I could make one up.

Thanks for looking. Let me know if you find it.

 

[Mynex]

Irony Games - Use them for my Home Brew. Love it!

http://www.irony.com/mkcal.html

 

[Melayl]

Mynex -- Thanks for the link. I'll have to try it again later, though. After I entered all of my data, it said it couldn't find the page... darn technical difficulties.

 

[fba827]

irony.com's pages seem to have been defunct for a while. Although the occasional page in it still works, I don't think anything is functioning for a while. In fact, the main (irony.com) front page is entirely different , so I think some other group/organization took the domain and is doing other stuff with it.

I wouldn't expect anything that you used to get from irony.com to work anymore.

 

[orinhalifax]

I'm creating a new world, and I'm giving it a new calendar system. I've got the months and such figured out, but I'd like a program to plug all of it into. That way, I can plot out all the significant events in the history and future and know what day of the week/month/lunar cycle/etc they fall on.

Anybody know of a program that could do that?

d'oh, sorry, posted to the wrong thrread

 

[Joshua Randall]

I'm pretty sure DM Genie has such a tool.

It's also a very nice program for character creation and running games.

3.5, of course.

 

[azhrei_fje]

But DM Genie's calendar is created by typing in a bunch of text into a TXT file. When you run the 'Genie, it lets you move forward and backwards in time (and can even generate weather), but I think the OP was looking for a standalone tool that *just* generates a calendar with things like phases of the moon(s) and such...

 

[xmanii]

Didn't WotC have something for the Forgotten Realms and Eberron (you may be able to customize it)... if you want, I can try to find it, just let me know