The Calendar of Norrøngard

I wanted to let you know about new resource for your Thrones & Bones games. A fantasy calendar now exists for the land of Norrøngard! I've been working on this for a while, but I finally have it in shape that it's good enough for public consumption.

The calendar is set in the current year of 987 A.G. (After Gordion, referring to the end of the previous continent-spanning empire), and includes all the months, days of the week, the major holidays, daily weather, and the phases of the moons. This last one was tricky because the planet Qualth doesn't have two moons—it has one moon which has its own smaller moon orbiting it. This three body problem is beyond the calendar software, but I'm happy enough with how I handled it for game play. (The two satellites would share a new moon phase, and then the smaller moon has two other new moon phases as it passes behind its larger sister.)

Note that the calendar only shows weather and moon phases up through the 9th of Frost Month. That's where my own home campaign is currently, and I don't want to spoil those things for my players before they occur.

It also includes important dates in our campaign, such as the character's birthdays and when important games took place. But you can ignore that!

Meanwhile, if you plan to run all of the Tales of the Valiant RPG-powered adventures in sequence, then I suggest you start Banner of the Bull around the middle of the month of Sunna, maybe even during Midsummer Feast. Then plan on Fury of the Forsaken occurring in Slaughter Month. (You'll see on the calendar that we set the climactic battle on the 12th of that month. When you read the adventure, you'll know why.)

Meanwhile, thank you to everyone so far who has answered our "Future of Thrones & Bones" survey. The survey lists a number of potential projects and asks you to pick the one you'd most like to see. All of these projects are in various stages of development, so they may all happen at some point, but I want your input as to what we prioritize. If you haven't taken the survey already, please do take a quick minute and let us know what you'd like to see.

Finally, last week we had another great episode of Norrøngard Unscripted, our live play Thrones & Bones campaign that has run through all the published adventures and is now in uncharted waters. I'm starting to test out monsters from the forthcoming monster book that haven't appeared anywhere else before. This week, our heroes faced off against an iron dwarf (a construct previously featured in a 5th edition adventure, but in its new Tales of the Valiant form) and the never-seen-anywhere-before orichalcum ooze. Check it out:

That's all for now. Thank you for being here, and, as the Norrønir say, Be Healthy!