Online Golarion Calendar


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Building off of the fantastic work of Nick Russell and his fabulous Excel-based Golarion Calendar, I have created an online implementation that is similarly configurable and works for all dates into the future etc. etc.

Online Golarion Calendar (http://dungeonetics.com/calendar/)

As a bonus, if you change the settings from the defaults you can also create a bookmarkable link so that you don't have to recreate them every time from scratch.

Note that I am not a web designer by any stretch of the imagination. While the layout is responsive, the styling is what I call "just get it working", and the widgets aren't real mobile friendly. :-P

Right now it just shows a small annual calendar alongside a single (selectable) month with details. There's no MxN display as in Nick's spreadsheet, but it's still a work in progress.


It's always good to see this tool cropping up now and again. For anybody who hasn't tried it, the calendar is a fantastic tool. Golarion has so many official holidays that add great flavor to the setting, and this tool makes it much easier to keep track of them and integrate them into the game. On top of the holidays, it also includes phases of the moon. I'm sure a clever GM can think of a use for that ;)

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Thanks a lot John! This is great!


The Dread Pirate Hurley wrote:
It's always good to see this tool cropping up now and again. For anybody who hasn't tried it, the calendar is a fantastic tool. Golarion has so many official holidays that add great flavor to the setting, and this tool makes it much easier to keep track of them and integrate them into the game. On top of the holidays, it also includes phases of the moon. I'm sure a clever GM can think of a use for that ;)

Nick's spreadsheet has been my go-to calendar for a while, but it is not always convenient from a mobile device. This way I have a solution for both on- and offline.

It was his work on the moon phases and the holidays that really got me excited about this. As a player, these are two items that would really just be obvious to my character, or any character, but are typically just ignored unless they are needed for a particular adventure or encounter. And sometimes they are more than just flavor. The phase of the moon tells you how much light you have at night, and roughly when it rises and sets.

Weather would be something else nice to have out there, but figuring out a system for that would be a challenge. (One idea would be to use historical weather from earth continents at similar latitudes.)


I have a mobile-friendly version in place. It should auto-redirect for devices with small screens, but you can force mobile vs. desktop as you see fit.


So I have an old version of the calendar and I just down loaded a new one the

Solstices and Equinoxes are not listed any more anyone have any idea why?

This is an amazing tool none the less


Joey Virtue wrote:

So I have an old version of the calendar and I just down loaded a new one the

Solstices and Equinoxes are not listed any more anyone have any idea why?

I don't remember Nick's Excel calendar ever having equinoxes or solstices listed, but I may have been late to the party.

It's actually a non-trivial problem to solve, and requires more information than we have about the solar system. This could be simplified by assuming that Golarion has a circular orbit (this is the same assumption made for its moon when calculating moon phases), which would put them every (365+1/(leap_interval))/4 days. Align the calendar like earth's by putting the first vernal equinox in 1 A.R. on Pharast 22nd (March 22nd, 1 A.D.) and go from there.

I'll do something like this and get it added in the coming days.


John Mechalas wrote:
Align the calendar like earth's by putting the first vernal equinox in 1 A.R. on Pharast 22nd (March 22nd, 1 A.D.) and go from there.

Or, alternatively, align it like current times, which keeps the spring equinox as close to the 20th of March as possible.

Or, assume Golarion's orbit is like Earth and use the length of the seasons in the Gregorian calendar, tweaking for Golarion's leap year interval.


OK. I have added equinoxes and solstices, using earth's season lengths as the model (basically, assuming Golarion's orbit is identical to earth's). I've chosen settings that put the vernal equinox falls on the 20th or 21st of Pharast. Right now there's no way to change any of the parameters but I'll get around to that.

It also populates calendar with the events that correspond to these dates (Firstbloom, Swallowtail Festival, Crystalhue, etc.)

I also fixed a bug in how festival weeks are calculated when you change the start of the week from Moonday to something else. I also made the calendar display of the days of the week dynamic so that it matches your starting day.


This is cool! One small problem, though -- if you change what day starts the week, it actually shifts the days of the week relative to the dates rather than just rewrapping the calendar (which is what an Earthbound calendar program would do if you changed what day starts the week, since even Microsoft knows they can't shift the days of the week relative to the dates).


UnArcaneElection wrote:

This is cool! One small problem, though -- if you change what day starts the week, it actually shifts the days of the week relative to the dates rather than just rewrapping the calendar (which is what an Earthbound calendar program would do if you changed what day starts the week, since even Microsoft knows they can't shift the days of the week relative to the dates).

What you are really doing when you shift the start of the week is change the day assigned to 1/1/1 A.R. I'll be sure that is more clear (the language I had before more explicit about that).

I could decouple the two, and make it an option to change the founding day with or without adjusting the weekday ordering. The decoupling is what I had before in my buggy code. ;) Or even allow you to set the two independently of one another.


Probably do want the ability to adjust what day begins the week (thus rewrapping the calendar display without changing what day of the week corresponds to what date) to simulate the options that Finearcane Perceptaward your favorite Wayfinder inscriptionlet would give you . . . .


UnArcaneElection wrote:

Probably do want the ability to adjust what day begins the week (thus rewrapping the calendar display without changing what day of the week corresponds to what date)

I will work on this.


Hi John,
thanks for your work, I really like it, and I'll start using it in mine Kingmaker AP campaign.

Do you think there is a way to add the various Moon Names (from Blood of the Moon) too?


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T.A.U. wrote:

Hi John,

thanks for your work, I really like it, and I'll start using it in mine Kingmaker AP campaign.

Do you think there is a way to add the various Moon Names (from Blood of the Moon) too?

Sure! I'll get on that, too.


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T.A.U. wrote:
Do you think there is a way to add the various Moon Names (from Blood of the Moon) too?

Done.


Thanks John!
I've tied a lot of kingdom events to the Moon, and having a quick reference to the names while looking at the calendar will help me a lot!


What a beautiful thing you've done! I was so dreading trying to cook up a calendar on my own.

On behalf of lazy gm's everywhere, I salute you.

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Thank you very much


Thank you!!!


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I had done something like that myself, years ago, but I had a problem with calculating years before 0 AR (right now my mind isn't on it, and I can't recall if it was just too exhausting or outright beyond my abilities).
I hoped this one could go before 0 AR, but looks like there was the same difficulty. :D


Astral Wanderer wrote:


I hoped this one could go before 0 AR, but looks like there was the same difficulty. :D

Hmm. Well, I guess there is really no mathematical reason why it couldn't go to years before 0 A.R., but I think the issue there is that technically it's a different calendar system.

I'll put it on the list of things to do. I still have an outstanding request to allow users to shift the starting day of the week (independently of the starting day of the calendar) which I want to get implemented. Then I'll take a look at this idea.


Thanks so much! This is an excellent resource and ongoing project.


I have added a number of holidays from the new Inner Sea Faiths book. Groetus has a holiday! Sort of.

Not everything could get added. Some don't have dates at all. Some are too complicated for the existing code (e.g. "2nd full moon of summer"). And then there's "Seven Veils", which is on Neth 23 in the Inner Sea World Guide, but Neth 7 in Inner Sea Faiths. I left that at Neth 23 since the ISWG came first.


Is it possible to print the calendar out on a monthly basis... i.e. one month to a page?


Pathos wrote:
Is it possible to print the calendar out on a monthly basis... i.e. one month to a page?

Not at the moment, but I think it would be easy to add. I'd just need to bring up a pane that renders every month in the large/full view instead of the small view. The code already supports this capability, there's just no place to show it.

I'll think about the best way to present this.


Pathos wrote:
Is it possible to print the calendar out on a monthly basis... i.e. one month to a page?

This was almost as easy to implement as I thought it would be. It took more time to adjust the CSS for printing than to put in the code.

You might need to do a Shift+Reload to update the page, but there is now a "Printable calendar" button that opens in a new window showing your calendar for the selected year. It prints a small annual calendar followed by each month, with one month per page (use landscape page orientations).

I haven't done this for the mobile interface. (Is that a thing? Are people wanting to print from their phones?)


Sweet... Thank you.


John Mechalas wrote:


Hmm. Well, I guess there is really no mathematical reason why it couldn't go to years before 0 A.R., but I think the issue there is that technically it's a different calendar system.

Well, it's like our calendar... we don't say "year N of that other calendar" for everything before year zero; we say "year N before [year zero] of this calendar".

Of course, if PCs travel back in time before year zero, they won't hear people telling them "we're in year 2589 before Absalom" (or even after year zero, because who knows if Absalom Reckoning was created the same day Aroden lifted the Starstone or centuries after that?), but scholars of the present time surely refer to those times as such, as we do our world.

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