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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Prism" data-source="post: 6677440" data-attributes="member: 9501">Our campaigns hop about from prime to prime occasionally and rather than saying that time is fixed between them we assume that its more like a river, in that it flows at different rates and creates eddies where time slows. So sometimes 1 year in Greyhawk might be equal to 1 year in Faerun, but at others times it might be a 5:1 or even 10:1 ratio.An idea that I got from the Narnia stories was that time flow has a relationship with magic in the world. For example a few years on earth might map to several hundred years in a highly magical world. This kind of helps explain why although Faerun has moved forward 100 years, while we only advanced Greyhawk a few years. The Spell Plague being a huge burst of magic had unusual effects on the speed of the flow of time in Faerun. This kind of stuff also helped us explain how we moved our existing characters in the Realms over from 3e to 4e. We left in 1380 and spent a short time on another prime (from our perspective) to return in 1489.I like the idea that Eberron has barely moved forward at all being a world moving towards science and compared to Faerun has less magic in its modern age.Anyway, that's how we do it, and only because we do have characters that move between the primes and planes in our campaigns and connect up to our other characters on occasion</blockquote>