A Few Quick Updates
26 Aug 2014You may notice some changes to the structure and layout of the site. I'm still trying to nail down how this is all going to flow and look, so things may stay in flux for a bit. As I go, though, I'll be careful not to lose any of the information that is here.
I also made some additions to the Campaign Rules Notes.
Finally, I have decided the in-game starting date will be 4 Richfest, 575 CY. If you would like, here is a link to a good Greyhawk calendar. A quick summary of Oerth's calendar follows:
Days and Months of the Year
The sun travels once around Oerth in 364 days. This period is broken into 12 standard months of 28 days each, with four week-long Festivals before each third month.
Oerth (more specifically, the Flan) has a standard week of seven days: Starday, Sunday, Moonday, Godsday, Waterday, Earthday, and Freeday. Traditionally, Godsday is a day for worship, while Freeday is a day for rest.
The Festivals are: Needfest in the Winter, Growfest in Spring, Richfest in the Summer, and Brewfest in Autumn. Each festival is 7 days long.
The Dozenmonth of the moon are: Fireseek (Winter), Readying (Spring), and Coldeven (Spring), followed by the Growfest Festival; Planting (Low Summer), Flocktime (Low Summer), and Wealsun (Low Summer), followed by the Richfest Festival (Midsummer); Reaping (High Summer), Goodmonth (High Summer), and Harvester (High Summer), followed by the Brewfest Festival; and finally, Patchwall (Autumn), Ready'reat (Autumn), and Sunsebb (Winter), followed by the first week of the New Year; otherwise known as the Needfest Festival.
Oerth has 2 moons: the Great Moon (Luna, sometimes referred to as The Mistress) waxes and wanes in fixed cycles of 28 days each, upon which the months are based, and the Handmaiden (Celene, the small aquamarine satelite) which is only full on the 4th day of each festival week; 4 times a year. The two are full together only once a year: on Godsday, the 4th of Richfest.
Here's a really cool image someone put together that shows all of the above in a rather unique display: