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The Common Year (CY) Reckoning is a fictional dating system used in the World of Greyhawk campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

In the mid-1970s, Gary Gygax created a campaign world called Greyhawk for the new fantasy roleplaying game called Dungeons and Dragons that he was helping to develop.^[1] In the 1980 TSR publication World of Greyhawk (TSR 9025), he included a brief timeline of historical events^[2] (which was considerably expanded in later publications, see World of Greyhawk Timeline) using the calendar systems of the most predominant cultures within the campaign world:

• SD (Suloise Dating or Suloise Dominion)
• OC (Olven Calendar)
• BH (Baklunish Hegira or Baklunish Hierarchy)
• FT (Flan Tally)
• OR (Oeridian Record or Oeridian Reckoning)
• CY (Common Year Reckoning)

[edit] In-Game history

The Common Year Reckoning was an Oeridian (specifically an Aerdi) creation, established by Grand Prince Nasran I of the Great Kingdom of Aerdy in 645 OR. As Nasran took the title of Overking, he declared universal peace throughout his realm. A new calendar, the Common Year Reckoning, would henceforth mark the start of his reign as 1 CY. The dates of events occurring before 1 CY would be denoted as a negative number (or are sometimes listed as "BCY": Before Common Year).

Since the reckoning began as 1 CY, the year before would be -1 CY, therefore there is no 0 CY, which had to be taken into account when converting to the other systems of reckoning years prior to 1 CY.

Days, weeks, and months within the Common Year are reckoned using the Greyhawk Calendar.

[edit] References

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• Gygax, Gary. World of Greyhawk Fantasy Game Setting (TSR, 1983).

• Holian, Gary, Erik Mona, Sean K Reynolds, and Frederick Weining. Living Greyhawk Gazetteer (Wizards of the Coast, 2000).

• Moore, Roger E. Greyhawk: The Adventure Begins (TSR, 1998).

• Sargent, Carl. From the Ashes (TSR, 1993).

[edit] Notes

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