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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 4063633" data-attributes="member: 13966">I make new calendars for my campaigns from scratch; no lazy, suspension-breaking modern Earth calendar use.I make a calendar for each significant culture that might have it's own; orcs don't tend to care much about timekeeping, for instance, so they don't bother with calendars in my campaigns, but dwarves and elves do care about tracking the passage of time and remembering important dates in their peoples' history or in their own lives.In Rhunaria, I have 5 different calendars in use, and there are at least 2-3 others that haven't been detailed or mentioned yet, like whatever calendars dragons might use, if any, or what exactly the yuan-ti or the aquatic races use, for example.  And whatever calendar the Nari once used, before they all disappeared.I haven't finished any calendar work for Aurelia just yet, but I have calendars worked out for some other settings too, and generally I name each day of the week (in some calendars it's just referred to by a number, but others have actual names for the days), each month, sometimes each week/tenday/fortnight of the month, and sometimes the year or cycle of years (like, Rhunarian elves define time within 3 different cycles of years, based on the movements of a particular star that they associate with the Spirit King).  And the Tashi humans in Rhunaria use a zodiac cycle in their calendar, as I've done for one or two other oriental-style cultures in my campaigns.  I also note down solstices, equinoxes, lunar cycles, eclipses, and major holidays or the like.It helps that I keep a separate section in my setting documents for Timekeeping, and I'm working on a direct conversion chart for translating a date in one Rhunarian calendar into the corresponding date in any other Rhunarian calendar.  While I use the Common Measure calendar when informing the players of the date in-game, I've also been able to answer what that means in the Tashi Imperial Calendar for the party's one samurai.</blockquote>

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