Added Realism Moon Phases and Real Weather July 2000

[Cdnwolf]

http://www.calendar-12.com/moon_calendar/2000/july

http://freemeteo.com/default.asp?pid...000&sid=124350

It looked like it rain all month long during July 2000.

[Legbreaker]

Also, http://www.ga.gov.au/bin/astro/sunrisenset

[B.T.]

Well done, Cdnwolf and Leg!

The players in my group will hate this.

[Targan]

In my campaigns we keep campaign logs on double-sided A4 sized paper forms. They are called watch sheets (because each box is one 4-hour watch). Each row of 6 boxes across the page (landscape view) is one day. There are 15 lines of boxes on each side of the page so each double-sided page contains approximately a calender month of 4-hour watch boxes. Every single one of those watch boxes on the logs from our last T2K campaign (covering the time from the Escape from Kalisz scenario to March 2001) listed the phase of the moon (RL) and the weather conditions as well as what occurred (a basic rundown anyway to jog our memories).

The weather was randomly generated using the Northern Europe-type tables from Harnmaster's weather generation system. It generates surprisingly realistic weather patterns. My rationale for not using RL weather for the period was that the "nuclear fall" the world was going through would make RL weather data worthless. The "Butterfly Effect" and all that.

[Olefin]

Well this is a great way to answer my question from last night for our game!

Thank you very much!!

[M-Type]

I'm gonna have to start generating weather, or my player's suspension of disbelief might break!

Also those logs seem like a good idea. Might have to Excel something up.