Re: HISTORY: 1st draft timeline

>In <URL:news:local.spelljam> on Fri 10 Feb, Paul Westermeyer wrote:
>> Looking for comments
>>
>> An "official" Spelljammer Timeline [revised]
>[snip]
>
>I think you are brave to attempt this!
>
>Even considering that years might have the same perceived
>measured length in the three main SJ campaign settings, i.e. a
>year is made of roughly the same number of seconds of roughly the
>same length; there is nothing to say that time runs at exactly
>the same rate when considering any two crystal spheres, or even
>runs at a consistent rate!


That's true, but for the purposes of this timeline, it can be ignored, I
think.  the entries are all drawn only from TSR printed products.  Not
all of them provide specific dates, in some cases the product said, '200
years ago...' or something similar. once you establish what the
'current' year for that product is, you can start to build the timeline.

The point of the project is to create a baseline for GMs to exploit.  If
you wish to make time flow differently, you can alter the timeline
provided to fit.

What was interesting was, once I synched things up, the events started
to make a great deal of sense, almost as if they had been planned.  I'm
sure that's not the case, i just think that general timelines based on
product publication dates seeped through the old TSR offices, so writers
tend to 'fit' things properly subconsciously.

-- 
"I guess one person can make a difference... but most of the time they
probably shouldn't."  Marge, _The Simpsons_.

Paul Westermeyer,  westermeyer@????????.net