 September 23, 2012 - 5:04pm | Hey all, How do you handle time in your campaigns? SF has time broken down into tendays, 40 of which make a Galactic Standard year. Each day has 20 hours. Other than that, do any of you do anything to mark divisions of time? I guess with each planet having different rotations, seasons are out, but how about months? Of do you use some soft of stardate kind of thing? In Dramune Run - the gullwind has the date 9/15/61 written on the readout. So the 61 FY is obvious, but what about 9/15? This would seem to contradict the system for Time given in the AD rules. Anyways, just curious what everyone else does. |
 September 23, 2012 - 5:21pm | Not really, it's the 9th of 10 months 15th of 40 days in that month in year FY 61. I just use the standard 20 hours/day 400 days/year in my games. I've never really thought much about it as I've never really run things that really required keeping track of the exact date. Days (for pay) yes, but never the exact date. It might be fun to work up the calanders for all the planets and how they relate to the galactic standard day. Ad Astra Per Ardua! My blog - Expanding Frontier Webmaster - The Star Frontiers Network & this site Founding Editor - The Frontier Explorer Magazine Managing Editor - The Star Frontiersman Magazine |
September 23, 2012 - 5:25pm | Not really, it's the 9th of 10 months 15th of 40 days in that month in year FY 61. I just use the standard 20 hours/day 400 days/year in my games. I've never really thought much about it as I've never really run things that really required keeping track of the exact date. Days (for pay) yes, but never the exact date. It might be fun to work up the calanders for all the planets and how they relate to the galactic standard day. I never have either. I've been putting a calendar of elapsed time on an excel spreadsheet to track major campaign events and it dawned on me that there was no name for 'months' in the game... |
 September 23, 2012 - 5:41pm | Going by the Galactic Standard Time 400-day years I do ten 40-day months. But keep in mind GST is not the same as individual planetary times. As far as GST month names, I haven't given much thought but I would look into something metric-y with the last (10th) month being Deca...which would lend itself to geometric names for the other nine (Nano for 9th, Octo for 8th, etc) |
 September 23, 2012 - 11:17pm | I like to keep things somewhat Julian/Gregorian, even if SF history is completely untied to Earth history. I have 24 hours in a standard day, 6 days in a week; 5 weeks in a month and 12 months is a year. So you have 360 days in a year, with no leap years. |
 September 24, 2012 - 8:24pm | OFO, I found this in the document section while researching holidays. Your thread here gave me some ideas as I was looking at the calendar above my desk. http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/1241 |
September 24, 2012 - 8:53pm | OFO, I found this in the document section while researching holidays. Your thread here gave me some ideas as I was looking at the calendar above my desk. http://www.starfrontiers.us/node/1241 DING DING DING! That's it!!! Thanks so much! |
