Waxing Gibbous
Dec. 5th, 2015 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI can't believe this never happened to me before! We were playing DnD, and the party was sneaking up to an abandoned fortress full of goblins, and we waited till nightfall, and then suddenly asked, "wait, is this actually dark enough to sneak? goblins have low-light vision, right?[1]"
And living in a street-lit country, using a calendar that doesn't reflect phases of the moon, I suddenly realised, I had no experience of how often the moon was light. We established the moon was waxing gibbous[2]. And then I realised, despite the fantasy novel staple of waiting for moonrise/moonset, I'd completely forgotten but it was obvious when I thought about it, that moonrise moved around, and I thought I could work out that new moons rose with the sun, and full moons rose at sunset, and presumably 3/4 moons left a few hours at dusk or dawn of complete dark, but I couldn't remember which. At which point it was too late to say "please, GM, just pick one, it doesn't matter if it's the same as our world" and people started pulling out phases-of-the-moon apps.
But I have no idea that hasn't come up EVERY time I've played DnD.
[1] Never ask the GM that :)
[2] Bad word choice in English isn't your first language and/or you haven't read lovecraft parodies.
And living in a street-lit country, using a calendar that doesn't reflect phases of the moon, I suddenly realised, I had no experience of how often the moon was light. We established the moon was waxing gibbous[2]. And then I realised, despite the fantasy novel staple of waiting for moonrise/moonset, I'd completely forgotten but it was obvious when I thought about it, that moonrise moved around, and I thought I could work out that new moons rose with the sun, and full moons rose at sunset, and presumably 3/4 moons left a few hours at dusk or dawn of complete dark, but I couldn't remember which. At which point it was too late to say "please, GM, just pick one, it doesn't matter if it's the same as our world" and people started pulling out phases-of-the-moon apps.
But I have no idea that hasn't come up EVERY time I've played DnD.
[1] Never ask the GM that :)
[2] Bad word choice in English isn't your first language and/or you haven't read lovecraft parodies.
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Date: 2015-12-07 10:15 am (UTC)I guess the GM could always declare that there was heavy cloud cover.