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<blockquote data-quote="Fajitas" data-source="post: 1502555" data-attributes="member: 377">I actually spent a lot of time thinking about the calendar in the Halmae.&nbsp; I decided early on that being able to keep track of dates and how much time had passed was useful, so I definitely wanted a calendar.&nbsp; The problem was that, logically, the Halmae should have a sixteen-month calendar: four seasons of four months a piece.&nbsp; And, frankly, rather than seven-day weeks, they should either be four day or eight day weeks.Okay, I thought.&nbsp; Difficult but not inherently undoable.&nbsp; But then I thought, yeesh.&nbsp; I'd have to name all these things.&nbsp; And then the problem sets in.&nbsp; Because if I tell my players, &quot;It is Friday, the 19th of October,&quot; they instantly know what I mean.&nbsp; Wheras if I tell them &quot;It is Eighthday, the 19th of Sedellus Waxing,&quot; we all have to stop for a minute while they translate that.&nbsp; And it gets even worse when you have to start calculating how long between two events.&nbsp; &quot;Sedellus Waxing is how many months after Ehkt Rising?&quot;&nbsp; It reaches a point where the flavor gets in the way of the functionality.So, I figured, if the Julian calendar is good enough for Tolkein, it's good enough for me.&nbsp; If it helps, you can think of it, just like Tolkein's calendar, as having been translated from the original Halmae Common for the sake of the reader. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Fajitas, post: 1502555, member: 377"] I actually spent a lot of time thinking about the calendar in the Halmae. I decided early on that being able to keep track of dates and how much time had passed was useful, so I definitely wanted a calendar. The problem was that, logically, the Halmae should have a sixteen-month calendar: four seasons of four months a piece. And, frankly, rather than seven-day weeks, they should either be four day or eight day weeks. Okay, I thought. Difficult but not inherently undoable. But then I thought, yeesh. I'd have to name all these things. And then the problem sets in. Because if I tell my players, "It is Friday, the 19th of October," they instantly know what I mean. Wheras if I tell them "It is Eighthday, the 19th of Sedellus Waxing," we all have to stop for a minute while they translate that. And it gets even worse when you have to start calculating how long between two events. "Sedellus Waxing is how many months after Ehkt Rising?" It reaches a point where the flavor gets in the way of the functionality. So, I figured, if the Julian calendar is good enough for Tolkein, it's good enough for me. If it helps, you can think of it, just like Tolkein's calendar, as having been translated from the original Halmae Common for the sake of the reader. :) [/QUOTE]

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