354 AV --The Gorbesh War begins
--The jadeite and kyanite mines are destroyed
356 AV --A summit is held in Leth Deriel between the Provincial
Governments and the terrorist L'Karm group
--An obelisk is excavated near Therenborough
357 AV Refugees of the Kaldar and Gnomes arrive from the southwest;
the remnants of the Prydaen and Rakash arrive from the west
358 AV --The Kingdom of Andreshlew rises to the Reshal Sea surface
for the Feast of Eluned
--Therengia signs an alliance with Andreshlew
359 AV --House Valsef rebels against Therengia
--Sorrow begins attacks in an attempt to retrieve a book
360 AV Prince Belirendrick III (77) is assissinated
361 AV Reign of Prince Sirolarn Sorvendig of Zoluren begins
362 AV --The Moon Mage Guild's High Council is assassinated
--An artifact is activated on Taisgath Island, releasing
Tezirah. She is sent back into the Plane of Probability.
363 AV --Sorrow is killed at the Zaulfung Stones
--Therengian forces occupy parts of Zoluren in retaliation
for Zoluren's invasion of Therengia while chasing Sorrow
364 AV --Prince Sirolarn is executed
--Reign of Prince Vorclaf Sorvendig of Zoluren (29) begins
--Therengian forces withdraw from Zoluren

>>Modern Age
Begins with calendar marking year 0<<

I thought there is no year 0 on any calander. I thought they always start with 1.


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Gnomes Rule!

<<By my calculations, the game would have started around the year 345.>>

Nope don't think that is possible as I was born in the year 334.

You were born on the 10th day of the 3rd month of Lirisa the Archer in the year of the Emerald Dolphin, 334 years after the victory of Lanival the Redeemer.

Birthday doesn't have anything to do with game start, since you weren't 'born' on the first day of the game (you were at least 10-20).

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Fine. I'm wrong.

340-some odd sounds about right. I wish I had access to my hard drives in storage, I bet I could find the dates.

Jim


"There is no help for our kind. We walk a lonely road."

"Paladins. There ought to be a bounty on them."

Well.. DR is how old now? There's about how many game years per RL year?

I could be figured out (or at least a good guess could be gotten) that way... I'm just too lazy to do it.


Shadeau Raysen-Moonith,
Player of.

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(Drongol dislikes you.)

<<Actually, I believe there were some breaks in the 'natural' timeline in the beggining, while they were still messing with they systems.>>

Yeah, I'm not sure that I recall the date system working back to the very beginning. It's been a while though.

The easy way to do this would just be to figure out how many ingame years have passed since February 1, 1996 when DragonRealms opened on GEnie as that is truly the beginning (Open Beta on AOL started on June 3, though I want to say AOL OH accounts were allowed in earlier. DR went live on AOL on July 25).

I know people have calculated somewhere before exactly how many DragonRealms years pass during a real life year. I want to say it is three DragonRealms years and some change to one real life year.

Oh...neat, was counting and just realized (10 years and a month since DR was open for login on GEnie). I haven't been reading here lately, but did anyone take note that DragonRealms just passed its 10 year anniversary?

Yes, someone took note. Premies got to design the birthday cake via a meeting-only contest, and there's going to be a large gathering, possibly of the extremely-small, free fest flavor.

J'Lo, no that other one
The Manipulation List -- http://symphaena.com/index.html

<<Yes, someone took note. Premies got to design the birthday cake via a meeting-only contest, and there's going to be a large gathering, possibly of the extremely-small, free fest flavor.>>

That's great! Have they already announced the date of the gathering somewhere? I might try and plan ahead to drag Cemm and Zeb out for it.

Congrats on fatherhood Peter, it will change your life. Having raised four and raising four more these days, I know how busy they can keep you. :>

Jim

p.s: You know i'm not sure if when we did the character re-sets that they did reset the dates or not. Good question, I'll have to ask Matt/Rhys if he's got any of those files or not on hand, maybe can check it out so I dont have to fly to the east coast to go through storage. lol


"There is no help for our kind. We walk a lonely road."

"Paladins. There ought to be a bounty on them."

Danalae,

Were you an OH account by chance? I was as well on AOL, but I started into DragonRealms from the GEnie side at first when word spread that it was available there.

Trying to sort through the fog of memory, I think that's why I can't remember if there were character resets, because as soon as AOL OH's could log in for beta testing, I abandoned the GEnie character and switched and made a new one from AOL.

Hmmm, my dates must still be wrong then. For some reason I thought that first festival was held where everyone from AOL could attend to, not just GEnie folks and AOL OH's.

>Were you an OH account by chance? I was as well on AOL, but I started into DragonRealms from the GEnie side at first when word spread that it was available there.

Yeah, once upon a time, I worked as a guide on AOL, running helprooms for PC and Mac folks. I got the fun of being kicked out of pretty much every festival around, because the overhead people would get booted when there was high usage. I never managed to find Dragonrealms in the betatest area, though, and had to wait til it was available via keyword.

-Danalae T'Aliesan

<<Oh my god, I've been playing forever.. I wonder if my old characters still exist?

They probably do. I just got one back that hadn't been played since 1997 (I think). I couldn't remember what AOL account it was on or when I had last played, but they were able to find her and all of her stuff, including tufts of grass and a highwayman's belt. Then I rerolled and there went my middle aged Elf. Le sigh.

But yeah, it was neat getting her back and remembering playing while having to keep track of my 10 hours a month on AOL or whatever ridiculously small number it was.

Erm, I think I tried to fill out the reactivate character form and it laughed at me. There's a transfer form in there for reactivating AOL characters. Simu sent me an email with security questions (where was your character, when were they last played, all kinds of things) and I guess I barely remembered enough of them to get her back. I was rather amazed and pleased!