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When does T1-4 take place? (Patreon)

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2023-09-28 17:24:24
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I've got a new article up on the blog, digging into the year that the Temple of Elemental Evil adventure takes place.

https://www.greyhawkgrognard.com/2023/09/28/when-does-t1-4-take-place/

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When does T1-4 take place?

The question of when different modules take place can sometimes be a vexing one. There doesn't seem to be a straight conversion between real-world dates and those in-universe; a module published in 1985 might take place a few years before or after another one published that same year.

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Anonymous

I was just checking the reference on page 4 of Return, and it says, "Fifteen years have passed in the campaign world since the defeat of the Temple of Elemental Evil." I think that phrase "in the campaign world" is important. Definitely Return is being released (in 2001) around the time of the re-launch of the Greyhawk campaign as the default campaign world for 3rd edition D&D. And when it relaunched, it was definitely launching as from 591 CY. So Return seems to write as from a 591 orientation. Unfortunately, the writers of that adventure just screwed up and missed the fact that T1-4 actually pins down its own adventure as happening at 579 CY, not 576 CY. I think I would agree with you that 579 CY for T1-4 is the way to go.

Anonymous

I am currently running T0 in 576. Now considering changing.