The OSR Calendar
A downloadable printable calendar
This is a one-page tool to help you track an entire calendar year—plus the seasons and phase of the moon— in your old school fantasy game.
Give your players verisimilitude and meaningful choices. Make your life easier!
This download includes...
- A one page, letter-sized PDF optimized for home printing.
- The Affinity Publisher file, so you can make adjustments and hack it to pieces.
Please Note: The PDF is only one page (with three style variations). This one sheet of paper could last for an entire campaign.
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Development log
- Added Cairn & "Classic" (BX D&D) Styles10 days ago
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Got this for Cairn, looks great. I'll post a follow up when I use it.
Nice to see a Cairn Warden here. Let me know how it goes!
Looks like you could easily make this work for a full-length year by simply treating each box as a full day, rather than a watch. Granted, having an accelerated calendar where the entire year goes by in just four months would absolutely fit in a fantasy world, as long as you don't try to apply real-world considerations for climate and vegetation. Food just grows faster, eh?
This is a great idea. Same exact document, and you're almost back to the 365 day year.
It's interesting how the "acceleration" is not always apparent on the Player's side (unless they're keeping their own calendar).
"You can not have a meaningful campaign if strict time records are not kept" - gygax
Both simple and functional - what more would you want.
Those were the exact goals. Thanks for getting me!
this is so handy as a dm at the table. Way better than the complicated system with 4week months, and three month seasons i had been using. Time never seemed to pass in my campaigns.
We're kindred spirits. I felt the same exact way-- time never seemed to pass. Hope this helps!
I have absolutely no idea how to track time but maybe this will help me. Thank you for taking time to create it.