Thread: Traveler Calendar
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February 8th, 2023, 15:48 #1
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Traveler Calendar
Running a Traveller game, I would have preferred to use the Third Imperium calendar but it does not have months.
An actual Traveller calendar does have them as ship mortgage payments are in months.
Using a classical calendar for now, but it would be nice if this could be fixed.
Not a game breaker issue, but just a nice to do thing.
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February 8th, 2023, 22:30 #3
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I understand that, been playing Traveller since the late 70's, however as ship payments are in months, it would be nice to have them separated that way in the calendar. Just a nice to do item.
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February 11th, 2023, 14:39 #4
I welcome an idea on how to address this to try and fit all. I myself manually track a calendar as the Mongoose 'current' era is 1105 constantly.
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February 11th, 2023, 15:03 #5
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Well, I would have to think about that, I know that months in Traveler are all just 4 weeks long, it would be interesting.. .Im just to lazy to track manually so I just set a Gregorian calendar to 1105 and use that with variable months instead, but I am just lazy. If the Imperial calendar had months I would use that. I will think about that, maybe do a little research in how it used to be ( back in the late 70's ) and get back to you. Thanks for the response.
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February 11th, 2023, 15:05 #6
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I do remember what I did in my old homebrew days, a year was 12 months of 4 weeks, and as it was a fictional calendar, I did not feel the need to make it 365 days exactly long. But you are trying to be more cannon so that probably wont work for you.
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February 11th, 2023, 15:23 #7
The calendar as presented in FG is the same as that detailed here: https://wiki.travellerrpg.com/Imperial_Calendar
One line of the "Year" section is two weeks. Therefore, 2 lines is 4 weeks = 1 month.
For example, I've decided that the first ship mortgage payment is due on Wonday (16), therefore the other payments are just 2 lines below:
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February 12th, 2023, 21:47 #8
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February 12th, 2023, 22:17 #9
Info on how to use the calendar, including changing the time, is available in the Wiki here: https://fantasygroundsunity.atlassia...paign+Calendar
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