⏱️ In-game clock & calendar

👤 For: Game Masters · 💳 Plan: All plans · 🔄 Updated 2026-10-14

Wovenkeep's time-tracking layer keeps your in-fiction world ticking in sync with your table — from individual combat rounds all the way to multi-day travel — and automatically expires spells, conditions, and scheduled events as the clock advances.

What it does

• Displays the current in-game date and time on the Gregorian calendar, a neutral Fantasy calendar, or a fully configurable custom calendar
• Advances time by a button press (+10 min, +1 h, +4 h, or +8 h), and automatically decrements spell/condition durations and fires scheduled events as the clock moves
• Calculates travel time from distance + terrain + pace, then applies it to the clock in one click
• Lets players see the current date, time, and their active effects on their phones in real time
• Shows active Place Clocks (location-specific countdown timers) on the player HUD

When to use it

Open Live → In-Game Clock whenever the fiction cares about time: tracking concentration and buff durations during combat, computing a travel leg between locations, building pressure with a timed trigger ("at midnight, the gates close"), or just keeping the party honest about short vs. long rests.

Where to find it

Live → In-Game Clock in the live sidebar. The section has three cards: ⏱ In-Game Clock (date, time, calendar), 🗺️ Travel Calculator (distance + pace + terrain → time) and 📅 Scheduled Events (future triggers, e.g. at sunset). The round counter, effects and rests (combat time, see below) sit at the top of Scenes & Sound.

Pacing timer

In the top bar of the GM tool, next to the player count, a small timer shows your session's wall-clock duration:

⏱ 0:00

Click it to start or pause. The colour shifts from green → amber at 2 h, then red at 2 h 30 min — a silent nudge if the session is running long. The pacing timer is local to your browser and does not affect the in-game clock.

Combat time (rounds and rests)

This panel sits at the top of Live → Scenes & Sound. It overlaps with the Initiative tracker but adds rest mechanics.

Both rest buttons show a confirm prompt before applying.

💡 Tip: Players can also trigger Short Rest and Long Rest from their own character sheet on their phone — tap Rest in the player HUD. The result is the same as the GM pressing it.

In-game clock

The clock shows the current in-game date and time.

Default state

Fresh campaigns start at the Gregorian calendar, date 1492-04-01, time 08:00. You can switch to any calendar preset at any time; the underlying absolute time is preserved.

⚠️ The ↺ Reset button resets the clock back to 1492-04-01 08:00 (Gregorian). It asks for confirmation before applying.

Quick-advance buttons

[ +10 Min ] [ +1 h ] [ +4 h ] [ 🌙 Sleep (+8h) ] [ ↺ Reset ]

Every advance recomputes the date display, decrements minute- and hour-based effects, fires any scheduled events whose trigger time has passed, and pushes the new time to player phones.

Day parts

The clock appends a day-part label based on the hour:

So 1492-04-01 14:30 renders as 1 Blossom Moon 1492 A.F. · 14:30 · Day when using the Fantasy calendar.

Switching calendars

A dropdown below the clock display lets you choose:

Switching calendar does not reset the time — the same absolute moment is re-rendered in the new calendar's format.

Custom calendars

If the Fantasy calendar doesn't fit your homebrew setting — or you're running a published campaign world with its own calendar — switch to Custom and click Configure.

A dialog opens with two sections:

Months

For each month provide a Name and a Days count. Add rows with + Add Month, remove with the × next to a row. Up to 99 months, each with up to 99 days, are allowed.

Holidays

For each named holiday provide a Name, Month (index from your months list), and Day (1–N within that month). Holidays are decorative — the clock display shows the holiday name when the current date matches.

Click 💾 Save Custom Calendar. The definition is stored with the campaign and the clock switches to it immediately.

💡 Tip: Running a published campaign world with its own calendar? Recreate it as a custom calendar — enter its month names and day counts here.

Effects and conditions

The effects panel tracks anything with a duration: spells, conditions, exhaustion, environmental effects.

Adding an effect

Click + Add Effect and follow the prompts:

1. Effect name — e.g. Bless, Hunter's Mark, Poisoned
2. Duration — pick from:
   • 1 Round · 1 Min · 10 Min · 1 h
   • Short Rest · Long Rest
   • Concentration
   • Permanent
3. Target — leave empty for a global effect, or pick a character to bind to a specific combatant
4. Visible to players? — OK = all players see it on their initiative panel; Cancel = GM-only

The effect appears in the Effects list:

Bless              Lena             3R
Hunter's Mark      Goblin 2         10min
Concentration      Mira             Concentration

Format: Name | Target | Remaining. Duration codes:

• <n>R — rounds left
• <n>min — minutes left
• <n>×10min — 10-minute blocks left
• <n>h — hours left
• SR / LR — expires on next short / long rest
• ∞ — permanent
• Concentration — linked to a caster; auto-released if the caster takes damage

Auto-expiry

Wovenkeep decrements durations automatically:

• Round-based effects tick down each time you click Next Turn (or Next Round)
• Minute-based effects tick down on every clock advance
• Rest-based effects expire when you apply a Short or Long Rest
• Permanent effects never auto-expire

When an effect hits 0 it turns grey and the player's phone shows a toast: "Bless wore off". Click 🗑 to remove it. Expired effects stay visible (greyed) until cleared so you can see what just fell off at a glance.

Concentration

When you add an effect with the Concentration duration:

• The effect is bound to the chosen character as its concentration owner
• A Concentration row appears at the top of the effects panel
• If that character takes damage (via the Initiative tracker → -HP), Wovenkeep prompts: "Lena was concentrating on Bless — release?"

To release manually, click Release next to the concentration entry. To swap to a new spell on the same character, just add a new concentration effect — Wovenkeep auto-releases the old one and shows a confirmation banner.

Travel Calculator

When the party travels between locations, the travel calculator turns distance + terrain + pace into time elapsed and applies it to the clock.

1. In the Travel Calculator sub-panel, fill in:
   • Distance — a number plus a unit dropdown (Miles / Kilometers)
   • Pace — Slow (2 mph) / Normal (3 mph) / Fast (4 mph) / Forced March (3 mph, >8 h)
   • Terrain — Road / Plains / Hills / Forest / Mountain / Swamp
   • Optionally tick Mounted and enter a mount speed in mph to override the pace
2. Click Compute.

Wovenkeep displays the travel time and projected arrival:

Distance: 24 miles  ·  Pace: Normal (3 mph)  ·  Terrain: Road
─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
Travel time: 8 h
Arrival: 1 Blossom Moon 1492 A.F. · 16:00 · Day

3. Click Apply travel time to advance the clock. All minute/hour effects decrement, and any scheduled events between now and arrival fire in sequence.

Scheduled Events

Schedule a trigger to fire at a specific future in-game moment.

1. In the Scheduled Events sub-panel, click + Schedule Event.
2. Fill in:
   • Event Name — a short description (e.g. "The gates close")
   • Trigger date — in YYYY-MM-DD format (pre-filled to the current in-game date)
   • Trigger time — in HH:MM format (pre-filled to current in-game time + 1 h)
   • Notes — optional
3. Click + Schedule Event to save.

The event appears in the list with a countdown. When the clock advances past the trigger time:

• A pop-up notice appears in the GM tool: "⏰ The gates close"
• The event row highlights to indicate it has fired but not been acknowledged
• Click Dismiss to clear it

Events are ideal for clock-based pressure: arrive in the city → schedule the gates closing at sunset → travel and roleplay tick the clock → the notice fires at the dramatic moment.

Place Clocks (player-visible)

Place Clocks are location-specific progress clocks defined in your campaign's Worlds & Clocks section. Any clock marked visible to players appears on the player HUD as a segment display:

The Ritual Begins   ● ● ● ○ ○ ○   3/6
The Siege           ● ● ○ ○        2/4

Filled segments (●) are amber; empty segments (○) are dimmed. Players see the clock title and its fill state, but not the description or GM notes. The GM advances segments from the Worlds section of the prep tool; the player phone updates in real time.

What gets recorded

Clock ticks are not logged one by one. What is recorded in the Session Log: rests applied, scheduled events that fired, and calendar changes. The current time and all active effects persist between sessions — picking up a campaign resumes exactly where you left off.

Troubleshooting

Related articles

• ⚔️ Initiative & combat — round and turn tracker; the combat side of time
• 📡 Running a live session — where time-tracking fits in the overall session flow
• 📚 SRD Rulebook — rest mechanics and condition rules from D&D 5e
• 🌍 Worlds & Clocks — create and manage Place Clocks and World Events