I'm curious if there is or are there plans for an official online Golarion calendar?
There's a discussion about one in the Pathfinder cmapaiogn Setting hardcover.
Director of Brand Strategy
|
Thank you both for the input :)
What I'm wanting is a calendar that I can embed into my wiki I've set up for my gaming group to show them the current in-game month and what holidays and events are going on in the world. I'm probably just going to continue digging into the google calendar stuff until I have it worked out, then I'll share it with the community.
I made a template that appears on the PathfinderWiki main page that converts the current date into Golarion time. It's not completely accurate, though, because the best conversion I could do was just to substitute the month name and add 2700 to the year. Thus, some months have 31 or 28 days based on the real calendar, which differs from the Golarion calendar. You're welcome to take this template for your own site and improve it if you can think of a way.
|
Director of Brand Strategy
|
nice! That's basically what I've done, but my added years were different...was going off the "current" date specified in the Pathfinder Chronicles campaign setting. It still needs adjusted for the leap year difference and days in a month.
Adding 2700 to the current real world year should coincide with the current year in the campaign setting. Time in Golarion progresses at the same rate as it does here, so a product released in 2009 would take place in 4709, one the following year is set in 4710, etc.
I think one way to do adjust for leap years and days in a month would be to make a matrix listing all real world dates and the corresponding setting date, though what date you'd start that on would determine when it lined up and when it deviated from our calendar. Creating a template to then read and output the data from the matrix might be difficult within the limitations of MediaWiki, though I'm by no means an expert on coding of that complexity.
Golarion's Calendar
It would be a good idea to have a Fantasy Calendar of Golarion, in which we could have:
Golarion Names for Months and Days
Phases of the Moon
Inner Sea Holidays
Weather Conditions
It would be great that this calendar could be on share ical or by google calendar, so we could track more easily and have great ideas.
Golarion's Calendar
It would be a good idea to have a Fantasy Calendar of Golarion, in which we could have:
Golarion Names for Months and Days
Phases of the Moon
Inner Sea Holidays
Weather Conditions
It would be great that this calendar could be on share ical or by google calendar, so we could track more easily and have great ideas.
|
Here is something I posted from another thread on the subject...
Vivriel here on the boards, posted a calendar in excel format a couple of years back...
HERE is a direct link to that file...
The zip file has a moon phase font to install...
It's certainly not "official" (as it's fan created), but this is a really good calendar (with phases of the moon) that you can use no matter what year your Golarion campaign is set...
Hope this helps...
-That One Digitalelf Fellow-
I have a question:
Every calendar of Golarion I have seen so far has 30 days per month. With 12 months, this should be 360 days..
But in the Campaign Setting it says 12 months (no days per month) and also 52 weeks with 7 days per week for a total of 364 days...
So there should be 4 months with 31 days.
I have a question:
Every calendar of Golarion I have seen so far has 30 days per month. With 12 months, this should be 360 days..
But in the Campaign Setting it says 12 months (no days per month) and also 52 weeks with 7 days per week for a total of 364 days...
So there should be 4 months with 31 days.
Or they're going to have to revise the calendar at some point, like going to the Gregorian calendar from the Julian calendar.
|
So there should be 4 months with 31 days.
My Golarion calendar does this. I do weather and moon phases by the week, so it was just easier for my year to have exactly 52 weeks (364 days). I st k the extra days in the months with equinoxes and solstices. It's in Excel. I can email if you want or post a link if someone want to tell me how to upload it somewhere.
I have a question:
Every calendar of Golarion I have seen so far has 30 days per month. With 12 months, this should be 360 days..
But in the Campaign Setting it says 12 months (no days per month) and also 52 weeks with 7 days per week for a total of 364 days...
So there should be 4 months with 31 days.
A few months old post, but Inner Sea guide p 248 will show that the Golarion calendar is exactly like our Gregorian calendar. Only exception is the leap year is every 8 years instead of 4; 4704, 4712 etc.
Moon phases are also just like ours IIRC.