Once you've got a calendar and the players are used to switching their characters in and out for whatever reasons, you can institute dis...

Only PCs and Retainers level up! And then, only Retainers with character levels. Ones with only Hit Dice do not.  Any other characters befri...

Once the several players get the hang of it, downtime is as satisfying as open expedition season is. As a reminder, here is the world calend...

 For the year 998: Click to embiggen During the Harvest, everyone in town must help. If a character isn't sick, dead, or aiding the harv...

People age. In a campaign that observes and honors Father Time, characters will get old and die (except for Elves, who don't.) We presum...

Gary famously said that you can’t have a meaningful campaign without strict timekeeping. He had his reasons and they were good reasons: an o...