schreier
2021-01-23, 03:39 PM
I've been trying to put together a master timeline crossing the major timelines and have run into the challenge of 3.5 to 4.0 to 5.0 in Forgotten realms.
I've referenced several major efforts:
https://nitessine.wordpress.com/2017/01/12/dd-and-timelines/
https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=22942
http://www.spelljammer.org/essays/history/pw_timeline.html
Then there is this calculator which does a good job:
http://www.omnimulti.com/other/chrono.html
The calculator has a different approach to the earth timeline, linking the worlds to a more renaissance time on earth. I am not a fan of that approach, since Dragon and other sources linked the realms to earth in the 90's.
I am trying to come up with a justification to keep the 90's linkage of 3.5 with the 4.0 and 5.0 time jumps. Would it make sense to have the time of troubles create a time pocket or jump? Have like 100 years pass on faerun "instantly" when compared to other times? Maybe Faerun as a whole falls out of line with other realms during the jumps?
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Forgotten_Realms#3rd_edition
using this -
2000 AD to 1372 DR (3.0) then probably go through 2007, but then 2008 was the launch of 4th edition. This would link to 1486 DR (4.0), so there is like 100 year time jump. You could also link to dragonlance for the time jump there (maybe only earth falls away for that span? Krynn has a pretty far time advance after the chronicles books, so this could work well.
Eberron obviously throws a monkey wrench into any effort if you want to link them, since they have always been at one time (998 I believe), so I just linked 998 YK to the year of publication (2004). Eberron has a rich history, but is surprisingly lacking in events between 512 and 800 YK
Thoughts? Does it make sense?
I've referenced several major efforts:
https://nitessine.wordpress.com/2017/01/12/dd-and-timelines/
https://www.thepiazza.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=22942
http://www.spelljammer.org/essays/history/pw_timeline.html
Then there is this calculator which does a good job:
http://www.omnimulti.com/other/chrono.html
The calculator has a different approach to the earth timeline, linking the worlds to a more renaissance time on earth. I am not a fan of that approach, since Dragon and other sources linked the realms to earth in the 90's.
I am trying to come up with a justification to keep the 90's linkage of 3.5 with the 4.0 and 5.0 time jumps. Would it make sense to have the time of troubles create a time pocket or jump? Have like 100 years pass on faerun "instantly" when compared to other times? Maybe Faerun as a whole falls out of line with other realms during the jumps?
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Forgotten_Realms#3rd_edition
using this -
2000 AD to 1372 DR (3.0) then probably go through 2007, but then 2008 was the launch of 4th edition. This would link to 1486 DR (4.0), so there is like 100 year time jump. You could also link to dragonlance for the time jump there (maybe only earth falls away for that span? Krynn has a pretty far time advance after the chronicles books, so this could work well.
Eberron obviously throws a monkey wrench into any effort if you want to link them, since they have always been at one time (998 I believe), so I just linked 998 YK to the year of publication (2004). Eberron has a rich history, but is surprisingly lacking in events between 512 and 800 YK
Thoughts? Does it make sense?