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I'm ready to begin running the Shackled City this Friday. While I opted for a generic setting I am using the Greyhawk Calendar and lunar cycles. So I am curious when other groups playing in Greyhawk started their campaigns and when they set the Flood Festival to occur.
I'm ready to begin running the Shackled City this Friday. While I opted for a generic setting I am using the Greyhawk Calendar and lunar cycles. So I am curious when other groups playing in Greyhawk started their campaigns and when they set the Flood Festival to occur.
Where'd you get the Greyhawk Calendar and lunar cycles??? I'm looking to add this flavor to my ongoing SCAP campaign...
Thanks!
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Where'd you get the Greyhawk Calendar and lunar cycles??? I'm looking to add this flavor to my ongoing SCAP campaign...
When 3.0 launched I picked up the D&D Gazetteer rembering fondly Greyhawk games of old--then barely used it. So now several years later I finally found use for it. Unfortunately the calendar info only takes up about a page of the book.
http://paizo.com/store/games/roleplayingGames/d/dungeonsDragons/roleplaying Games/wizardsOfTheCoast/greyhawk/v5748btpy7azp
My copy of the 1st ed Gazeteer is MIA at the moment but I bet it likewise has the calendar and lunar cycles and Paizo sells it in PDF download.
http://paizo.com/store/downloads/wizardsOfTheCoast/aDAndD1/greyhawk/v5748bt py7meh
I began mine on Patchwall 15th (right about mid-month) and intend the Flood Festival to begin at about a quarter of the way through the next month (Ready'reat, I think). Most of the background I've read suggests that the flood season begins in late autumn/early winter, so that timeline seemed to work best for me. We're now on campaign date Patchwall 21st, and are about to begin Drakthar's Way, so it seems to be moving along at the right pace.
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I began mine on Patchwall 15th (right about mid-month) and intend the Flood Festival to begin at about a quarter of the way through the next month (Ready'reat, I think). Most of the background I've read suggests that the flood season begins in late autumn/early winter, so that timeline seemed to work best for me. We're now on campaign date Patchwall 21st, and are about to begin Drakthar's Way, so it seems to be moving along at the right pace.
Thank you VedicCold,
I was also looking at Patchwall (like the 11th). The Flood Festival is still giving me some grief. I've read the same things about late autumn/early winter but given the that the next Lunar Festival is so close it seems that the festival season would be rather long. I may have to check real world weather/seasons and see if I can't stretch the time into the next festival realistically. Of course I may not stretch it either and have the festivals remain close anyway. I'm still undecided. Any other suggestions out there.
I started my Campaign on Ready'reat 2.
Thank you VedicCold,I was also looking at Patchwall (like the 11th). The Flood Festival is still giving me some grief. I've read the same things about late autumn/early winter but given the that the next Lunar Festival is so close it seems that the festival season would be rather long. I may have to check real world weather/seasons and see if I can't stretch the time into the next festival realistically. Of course I may not stretch it either and have the festivals remain close anyway. I'm still undecided. Any other suggestions out there.
Yeah, I thought about that issue myself, and reasoned it this way: the Flood Festival is a completely local celebration, and it doesn't really close everything down (it in fact revitalizes the local economy through the sudden surge of spending on all the discounted merchandise). Plus, it really only needs to last about a week or so. The lunar mid-winter festival is something observed around the known world, but... Cauldron isn't exactly a part of the "known world." It's a very distant and exotic location from pretty much anywhere else in the Flanaess, so my solution was that the citizens of Cauldron focus more on their own local history and traditions through the Flood Festival, and only take a single day to celebrate and observe midwinter later on. The week-long period is still on the calendar, and everything's probably very quiet and slow, as opposed to the flurry of activity during the Flood Festival. I want to always keep my campaign spotlight on Cauldron's local traditions.
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Yeah, I thought about that issue myself, and reasoned it this way: the Flood Festival is a completely local celebration, and it doesn't really close everything down (it in fact revitalizes the local economy through the sudden surge of spending on all the discounted merchandise). Plus, it really only needs to last about a week or so. The lunar mid-winter festival is something observed around the known world, but... Cauldron isn't exactly a part of the "known world." It's a very distant and exotic location from pretty much anywhere else in the Flanaess, so my solution was that the citizens of Cauldron focus more on their own local history and traditions through the Flood Festival, and only take a single day to celebrate and observe midwinter later on. The week-long period is still on the calendar, and everything's probably very quiet and slow, as opposed to the flurry of activity during the Flood Festival. I want to always keep my campaign spotlight on Cauldron's local traditions.
I could live with that thanks again.
I just started my new Campaign on Patchwall 5th.
Is there a place online I can get the dates and Greyhawk calender without resorting to buying a book??? All I want is the calender information...the names of the days, months, starting years, etc.
Needfest (1 week)
Fireseek
Readying
Coldeven
Growfest (1 week)
Planting
Flocktime
Wealsun
Richfest (1 week)
Reaping
Goodmonth
Harvester
Brewfest (1 week--my favorite)
Patchwall
Ready'reat
Sunsebb
Days of the week
Starday
Sunday
Moonday
Godsday (Worship)
Waterday
Earthday
Freeday (Rest)
Thanks king, but are those the months? Seems to be too many of them. I get the days.
There are 12 months...each 3 month cycle is ended by a festival that lasts a week. During those times Celene and Luna are both in the sky and people celebrate the season. Druids go gather mistletoe and towns get together to throw a week long bash--every 3 months. It makes up for the fact that you only get one day off per week, I guess.
The way I handle the festivals in my campaign:
Needfest--communities get together to share winter's dwindling resources to ensure everyone has enough to eat to get through the remaining months of winter. Parties are low-key affairs, lots of community planning and meetings of elders, etc. Mead and wine that was prepared during Brewfest is transferred to their aging casks.
Growfest--In preparation of the coming planting season, the community shakes off its winter cobwebs, cracks open the reserves of winter wheat and the men go out and hunt up lots of fresh meat for a large roast. Cabin fever is dispelled in a major way with lots of singing, music, merry-making and marriages.
Richfest--huge celebration of abundance--between parties neighbors get together to raise barns, have big dances, take care of community projects (dams, waterwheels, repairing roads) that need to be done in the immediate community. The town militia displays its martial prowess with parades and drill field displays.
Brewfest--the harvest is in and the remaining wheat, barley, rye, grapes and honey that is not needed for food is turned into everyone's favorite--alcohol. Wine and mead is put to ferment, barley and wheat is cracked and sparged to become ale and beer--this huge community project is of course, accompanied by lots of drinking, festivals, etc.
Okay...so it goes as follows?
Fireseek = January
Readying = February
Coldeven = March
Growfest = Celebration of planting season
Planting = April
Etc.
Right?
And the days are:
Starday = Monday
Sunday = Tuesday
Etc, etc.
Right???
Yep, have fun! I picked up the Living Greyhawk Gazetteer on E-bay last year for $6, so you might check around if Paizo doesn't have it--it's a Greyhawk Treasure Trove.