I was reading Faiths and Avatars and I had an idea, after a brief chat in IRC.... I think it is a good one.

Religious holidays are rarley observed on EFU, which is a shame as this is the only RP server I am aware of which has ever decided to match the in game calender day to a real life day. Religious holidays are ignored for the most part in game, which is a shame!

So why don't we map all the in game holidays to real life days and list them for ease of planning?

I'm looking for one or two other people who are willing to help me dig through faiths and avatars and Power and Pantheons.

We'll divide the material 2 or 3 ways and write down the real life day it will occur on, the deity associated with it and the page number/book it is listed in.

Who wants to help?

One DMly question, what time zone midnight in the real world matches up with the underdark midnight?

You don't have to mark out midnights, given that you can't really give a precise midnight in the Underdark anyway. You could just say any time in that day could be considered as midnight. Pick a time.

Though I must say, it would be more helpful to me when attempting to answer this question if you mentioned exactly why you might need to know when it is considered midnight.

Because if we say "The eight day of this month starts at.... midnight GMT", we need to know that it matches up. A EFU day matches up to a real life day, when does an EFU day end? Basically, what time zone is EFU in?

The idea is pretty sweet. However, I'm with Lado in that anytime of the day could be used, considering the difficulties RL timezones present to a server with a worldwide playerbase. Tying EfU events down to RL timezones etc. doesn't make much sense.

um. its kind of necessary however. all we would need to know is what time the date changes over. Otherwise we could say greengrass is august whatever it was, people would log on that day in their time zone... and it might not actually be greengrass yet... or they might have missed it.

unless we all go spam the calendar in the town hall. or the script in the IRC.

Pretty much every single holiday of note in FR occurrs on Shieldmeet anyway.

The real life time of day to FR lore time of day can be ignored. The ACTUAL time zone EFU runs on though is important.

EfU is EST.

I've already started on this, having taken a brief look at the "major deities" listed in faiths and pantheons.

yes, lets on shieldmeet, and solstices and equinoxes... but also quitea few randoms like Ascension dates and crazy tyrrans with their three random dates every month.

so yeah. I'll keep going and see how it goes.

I already compiled something here.

I only used F&P, though, so if other sourcebooks have more information, feel free to add to it.

I advise strongly against using EST as a timezone that reflects midnights, etc IG.

This excludes a huge number of people from your events. If you took a more afternoonish time and just called that midnight (hey, who is going to argue with you in the Underdark?) then it would open the event up to many, many more people.