Baldur's Gate : The Sword Coast Chronicles : NWN2 Persistent World

What do people think about placing the current in game Calendar of Harptos date at the top of the forum page? and maybe add the name from The Roll of Years, the current phase of Selûne as well as any special holidays.

Something like:

Nightal 1, 1351 DR, The Year of the Crown

Nightal 20, 1351 DR, The Year of the Crown , Winter Solstice

of course we could play with the fonts, formatting and moon images... etc

I voted 4:1, I think it is crucial that it is not a 1:1 cycle, even if that is better for immersion, simply because the playerbase represents so many time zones and each and every one of us should be able to experience all the aspects of a daily cycle on our given characters.

Edit: oops wrong topic, need my morning coffee.

As long as such an addition won't cause any headaches for the forum moderator who volunteers to add it!

It looks pwetty. Me likes

right! I think I understand what might be confusing...

so currently the way things are set up right now is that we have a 12:1 day/night cycle of the the server itself, ie 5 real min per game hour

however despite the server's accelerated clock, our campaign calendar still only progresses at 1:1 time ratio - ie, one ig day is real day

this mixmatch is a little confusing requires some double-think, and while I'm not completely clear on when and why the decision was made, it allows a few different things
1) it allows players from different timezones to experience both day and night cycles, instead of being locked into perpetual day or night

2) it allows players' pcs who aren't able to play every day,
to experience and rp the passage of time

3) it makes at least a small (but ultimately insignificant) nod towards the fact that our server zones in theory represent a much larger area than is represented on the maps, and distance = rate(velocity) x time ( or time = distance / rate). I wont try to get into all of the math, but even at our current very fast ig time scale, PCs are able to travel great distances in a very short time. it gets more than silly and immersion breaking when you think about that part of it very much - and fully talking about that is its own topic and beyond the scope of this thread.

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what I believe these suggestions are about, is changing ig server day/night cycle speeds, not changing campaign calendar progression - which should probably be its own thread.

does that make sense? (and please let me know if I'm wrong!)

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this particular thread is talking about campaign calendar time, rather than server day/night cycles

It's not like we are adding anything new.

We're just making it obvious for new players what year it is, and help those without as much knowledge of the lore of dating to know how to say dates IG.


By the way, to reitirate something from the links Forgotten Realms does NOT have weeks.

It has Decans (tendays). Each month lasts 30 days exactly, and there are days outside the months as shown on the picture.