The most widely used calendar in Trinalia is the Aborian calendar. It divides the 378 day year into 12 months of 31 days each plus 6 additional festival days that aren't considered part of any month distributed throughout the year.

If you have not already determined the month and date of your character's birth, do so as follows:
1) Roll d12 to determine month of birth:
 

Roll	Month	Roll	Month
1	Kelan (The Eagle)	7	Lado (The Dove)
2	Mielkan (The Nature Goddess)	8	Marat (The Ship)
3	Laren (The Sword Bearer)	9	Odis (The 9 Candles)
4	Elgat (The Stag)	10	Tharis (The Tree)
5	Halan (The Harper)	11	Athis (The Tome)
6	Sorkus (The Crown)	12	Aziran (The Winter Drake)

2) Roll d32 (i.e., roll d4 and d8) to find the day. For those not to familiar with rolling alternative die types, use the following table:

d4 Roll	Day Number:
1	1d8 roll
2	1d8 roll + 8
3	1d8 roll + 16
4	1d8 roll + 24

If the result is 32, depending on the month, you must either re-roll or the result is a festival day instead of a month. Follow the instructions on following table:
 

Month Rolled:	Result:
Kelan, Laren, Halan, Sorkus, Odis, Athis	Re-roll day of month born.
Mielkan	Born on the day of the Queen's Festival .
Elgat	Born on the day of the Festival of High Summer.
Lado	Born on the day of the Festival of the Harvest.
Marat	Born on the day of the Honoring Feast of the Dead.
Tharis	Born on the day of the Festival of Remembrance
Aziran	Born on the day of the Festival of the Dawn

    Note that each festival day is between the listed month and the following month.
 

    Example: In determining the birthday of a character named Corelan, the first step is to roll a d12. I roll a 12; this means that Corelan is born in the month of Aziran. To find the day, I roll a four sided and an eight sided dice. I roll a 3 and a 5 respectively. That gives a result of day 16+5, or 21. I write down 21 Aziran as Corelan's birthday.
    Had I rolled a 4 and an 8 for the day, the day would have been 32. That would have indicated that Corelan was not, in fact, born in the month of Aziran, but during the Festival of Dawn (the equivalent of new year's eve), a festival day between the months of Aziran and Kelan.

    If you have been here since the beginning and have been keeping track of aging, simply add 2 years to your character's current age (2 years have passed since the last time I told everyone to age their characters.) Subtract this number from 1174 to find your year of birth. I think this only applies to Tim's character.

    Everyone else will have to figure their ages according to this little formula. Some might find it a little tricky, so I'll break it down:

Age: Years since the character's birth (duh!)

BA = Base age. This is the basic age before modifiers from the Player's Handbook according to race. These are:

 
 

Race:	Base Age:
Dwarf	40
Elf	100
Gnome	60
Half-elf	15
Halfling	20
Human	15

 

Single class: Divide level by 2. Round down.
2 Classes: Add all class levels together. Divide by 3. Round up.
3 Classes: Add all class levels together. Divide by 4. Round up.

NdA: Number and type of dice to roll as a random modifier:

N: Divide race Venerable age by 70. Round to the nearest whole number. Add 1 per class beyond the first.
    For the normal AD&D game races, this breaks down as follows:
 

Race:	1 Class	2 Classes	3 Classes
Dwarf	4	5	N/A
Elf	5	6	7
Gnome	3	4	N/A
Half-elf	2	3	4
Halfling	1	2	N/A
Human	1	2	N/A

dA: Die type to roll. Add 3 to LAM. If the result is odd, add one. This is the type of dice to roll for a random modifier.

    Example: Corelan is an elven F/M/T of levels 8/9/10. For an elf, the base age is 100 years. The LAM = (8+9+10)/4 = 6.75, rounded up to 7. The for the random modifier, N is 7 for an elf with 3 classes. The die type is LAM+3, or 10. Corelan's age is 100+7+7d10. The rolls are 8, 8, 5, 10, 8, 5, and 2. The total age is 153 years.

    Since tracking age has been such a problem, I'm having everyone keep track of their birthday (determined above) and year. That should eliminate any further problems.

    To find birth year, subtract the character's age from the current year. If the current day is before the character's birthday in the current year, subtract one. This is the character's birth year.

    As of the game session beginning 1 November 1997, the game date is Festival of the Dawn (last day of the year), 1174. Thus if I was just introducing Corelan (in the examples above) into the campaign, his birth year would be 1174-153 = 1021. I would record his date of birth as 21 Aziran 1021.

    Unnatural aging should be recorded separately. The best way to do this is put it in parenthesis next to the character's natural age and only change the natural age on the character's birthday. Thus if Corelan got hit by a ghost and aged 25 years on Saturday's session, I would record his age as 153 (+25).

    If the PC happens to be over your race's middle age, you must apply stat modifiers as per the Player's Handbook. Sorry.