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Forgotten Realms Calendar

Content Created: July 22, 1999 / Updated: August 16, 1999

I am working on a Gregorian Calendar to Forgotten Realms (a setting for TSR's Advanced Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game) date converter, and it says today is:

Today is Flamerule 28, 1382 DR
(Day 8 of the third ride of the month)
This is Day 210 of the year

Look at the current month / Look at the current year



The assumptions are:

Here is a short rundown of the FR calendar (known as the Calendar of Harptos), summarized from the FR boxed set:

Each year has a name, for example 1371 DR is the Year of the Unstrung Harp, and 1372 DR is the Year of Wild Magic. There are a number of other numbering schemes besides Dalereckoning, depending on your geographic location, but the naming scheme, called the Roll of Years is somewhat universal. This list of names was set down by the sages Augathra the Mad and Alaundo. (No, I don't know anything about them either.)

Name Colloquial Name Gregorian month equivalent
Hammer Deepwinter January
Midwinter
Alturiak The Claw of Winter February
Ches Claws of the Sunsets March
Tarsakh Claws of the Storms April
Greengrass
Mirtul The Melting May
Kythorn The Time of Flowers June
Flamerule Summertide July
Midsummer
Shieldmeet (every fourth year)
Eleasias Highsun August
Eleint The Fading September
Higharvestide
Marpenoth Leafall October
Uktar The Rotting November
The Feast of the Moon
Nightal The Drawing Down December

Each month is 30 days, and each feast day is (surprisingly) one day. Each month is divided into 3 "tendays" or "rides" of ten days each. The individual days do not have names other than "the first day of the ride", etc.

Typical month
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

The information on this page is from the Forgotten Realms boxed set, and is therefore property of TSR, Inc.