Talk:Gateway to Ravens Bluff, the Living City

Since this book has no set year, I'll lay out the dating evidence for this book: So, that's four different dates. D:
 * Charles Oliver O'Kane became mayor in 1337 DR according to Grand History and the FRCS 2e, or in 1341 DR according to The City of Ravens Bluff. That's an explicit discrepancy.
 * The City of Ravens Bluff is expressly set in 1370 DR.
 * Gateway p7 says O'Kane is 48 years old and has been mayor for 14 years, which puts the book in ~1351 DR or ~1355 DR. But on p56, it says this was 20 years ago, which puts the book in 1357 or 1361.
 * Gaius Varro is 74 in Gateway and 83 in City, while Carrague is 114 in Gateway and 123 in City. That puts Gateway in 1361 DR.

I'm inclined to distrust the date based on working backward from City. It reprints a lot of Polyhedron articles from earlier years, and I'm not sure it's all been properly updated.

Similarly, the RPGA Living City micro-continuity might be considered as secondary to the primary FR sourcebook continuity, which was also printed later. So, per the Canon policy, the 1341 date for O'Kane becoming mayor might be rejected in favor of 1337 DR.

In any case, Gateway is published in 1989, smack bang in the Time of Troubles change-over, and everything else printed in that year is set in 1357 or 1358. So I would reject the 1361 date as being much too late, and the 1351/1355 dates as being too early.

That leaves 1357 DR, with 1337 DR being 20 years ago. Does anyone agree or disagree? — BadCatMan (talk) 11:29, September 3, 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree with your reasoning. --Ir&#39;revrykal (talk) 12:13, September 3, 2020 (UTC)
 * I agree with the above. Might as well make a template for it. &mdash;Moviesign (talk) 12:51, September 3, 2020 (UTC)