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Question about the calender in the OTU

OjnoTheRed

SOC-13
Marquis
The Imperial Calendar is divided into 52 weeks laid out in fortnights, with one spare day being "Holiday".

But what of the time unit of "month"? If we approximate a month as 4-weeks, the problem is we actually have 13 months in a year, and the rules generally have an assumption that a year has 12 months.

It's not a big question, but crew salaries, social standing living costs and the like are often expressed in months, and so are ship payments. Many tables in the T5 rules (and I'm pretty sure I can remember this in MT and CT rules) have "1 year ... 6 months" options where clearly 6 months is meant to be half a year.

It's really a minor accounting detail in the overall scheme of an RPG, but it's kind of bugging me.
 
The Imperial Calendar is divided into 52 weeks laid out in fortnights, with one spare day being "Holiday".

But what of the time unit of "month"? If we approximate a month as 4-weeks, the problem is we actually have 13 months in a year, and the rules generally have an assumption that a year has 12 months.

It's not a big question, but crew salaries, social standing living costs and the like are often expressed in months, and so are ship payments. Many tables in the T5 rules (and I'm pretty sure I can remember this in MT and CT rules) have "1 year ... 6 months" options where clearly 6 months is meant to be half a year.

It's really a minor accounting detail in the overall scheme of an RPG, but it's kind of bugging me.
This thread discusses several possible solutions.


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