I've thrown together a few house rules and organized them by relevancy. These are subject to change but I'll let you guys know when that may be. Not all of these are originally mine, in fact I borrowed quite a few from Jonathan Drain's blog D20 source and you can find his site here. These rules are meant to ensure fair play, keep the game moving with out spending 2 hours on a basic combat encounter and to add a little more flavour to the the game.
Thursday, October 22, 2009
The Calendar and the Holidays
No world would be complete without holidays! I've prepared some information that will further build onto the world your characters live in and interact with. The year of this campaign is broken into 12 months with 30 days in each. This results in 360 day years and 4 seasons to a year. Days are still twenty for hours, weeks are still 7 days. To give credit where credit is due some of these month names I took from a list of month names compiled by Shamus Young who runs Twenty Sided which is a fantastic blog for Dungeons and Dragons among other things and is really the inspiration of using a blog for a campaign although Jonathan Drain gets some credit too. The article of Shamus Young's that lists the months can be found here. The names that aren't from Shamus Young have been lifted from the Finnish Culture.
The month's names are:
Month of Winters Heart - Named for the coldest and darkest time of the year
Month of Pearl - Named for the ice coated trees made visible by the return of the sun
Earthy Month - Named for the earth that is finally visible under the snow
Burnwood Month - Named for the wood that is burned as farmers clear land
Newbloom Month - Named for the flowers
Ripetide Month - Named for the month where the fishing is most profitable
Suncrest Month - Named for the month where the sun is highest
Month of Summer's End - Duh
Month of Lands Blessing - Named for the crops that begin to ripen
Month of Harvest - Named for the harvesting that takes place all month
Deadyear Month - After spring and summer the world turns dark and the year dies.
Wintertide Month - Named for the freezing that occurs in the rivers and lakes ceasing contact with many of the Aquan races that dwell inshore.
Each race has a number of different holidays that the observe. Below are the holidays and the races that celebrate them. Most of these were taken from the races of stone and races of wild books. It should be noted however that these are not the only holidays in existence. Towns and villages will have their own holidays as will other nations and races. The few listed below represent the most important holidays in these races life. I've also made a calender of the year which is posted after all the holidays. It also lists the 1st day of each season.
The month's names are:
Month of Winters Heart - Named for the coldest and darkest time of the year
Month of Pearl - Named for the ice coated trees made visible by the return of the sun
Earthy Month - Named for the earth that is finally visible under the snow
Burnwood Month - Named for the wood that is burned as farmers clear land
Newbloom Month - Named for the flowers
Ripetide Month - Named for the month where the fishing is most profitable
Suncrest Month - Named for the month where the sun is highest
Month of Summer's End - Duh
Month of Lands Blessing - Named for the crops that begin to ripen
Month of Harvest - Named for the harvesting that takes place all month
Deadyear Month - After spring and summer the world turns dark and the year dies.
Wintertide Month - Named for the freezing that occurs in the rivers and lakes ceasing contact with many of the Aquan races that dwell inshore.
Each race has a number of different holidays that the observe. Below are the holidays and the races that celebrate them. Most of these were taken from the races of stone and races of wild books. It should be noted however that these are not the only holidays in existence. Towns and villages will have their own holidays as will other nations and races. The few listed below represent the most important holidays in these races life. I've also made a calender of the year which is posted after all the holidays. It also lists the 1st day of each season.