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I am not program savvy, and my search foo finds nothing. Is there, or could there be a program to act as a game clock? What I’m looking for is something that would keep a static time that you could give a click every round and it would go forward 6 sec. But you could also easily add 1min, 10min, an hour etc, or just let it keep real time if desired.
It would be cool to really allow time to be a factor, a real factor, in game. Lycanthropy as an example. If you have a PC afflicted with lycanthropy and there is a full moon rise at6:18pm in three days. While the PC’s discuss what to do at the bar on day 1, let the clock go in real time. They go to sleep, add 8 hours with a click. Some combat happens, pause it and click the round button each round. They go to the temple real quick to leave an offering, add 15min. Then on day three, if they get distracted, sidetracked, held up, or are in combat at 6:18pm, BAMMM werecow!
With some application like this time could be more real as opposed to arbitrary DM hand wave.
Is this ramble even coherent?
Easy enough to do in Excel I imagine. Just have 1 cell be the clock, restrict it to a time format. Then create buttons to add 6 seconds, 1 minute, etc, etc,...
If you want to get fancy you could even have another column for day that gets incremented once you pass 23:59.
Would be using macro's programmed to hotkeys to achieve it. Simple but not very pretty.
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I made a simple time advancer in excel anyone is welcome to use. You can advance the time by 6 seconds, 1 minute, 1 hour, and 1 day. It also displays the day of the week in Golarion style, month in Golarion style, and year. The current date is set to 1/1/4708 7:00:00
Golarion Time Advancer/Calendar
Make sure to download it and run it from excel. Also, ensure that you have macros enabled or the buttons will not work. You can either enable all macros or just add this file to your list of trusted locations.