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The Cycles tab

The Cycles tab is your world’s “weather report” — what phase the moon is in, whether the tide is rising or falling, what season it is, which festivals are active. One card per cycle, with a phase ring and a “next 30 days” preview. Cycles dashboard — phase rings and next-30-days strip

What you see

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At the top, the Now header shows the calendar’s current date in your primary calendar’s display format. Each cycle card below includes:

  • A phase ring — a ring with one segment per phase in the cycle’s colours. The current phase’s icon and name sit in the centre; a small dot on the rim shows where you are inside the current phase.
  • The current phase chip in the card header, with the time until the next phase.
  • A next 30 days strip — every phase change in the next month, one row per transition, with the calendar date when each starts and the time-from-now.

The date scrubber

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Below the Now header, the date scrubber lets you preview the world state at any past or future moment.

  • −7d / ← / → / +7d buttons step the date.
  • The Go to input takes the same smart format as the event create dialog: 1247 SR, 2026-04-04, 12 Hammer 1492. Press Enter or click Go.
  • When you’ve scrubbed away from “now”, the header changes from Now to Showing and a Reset to now button appears.

Scrubbing recomputes every phase ring, every “next 30 days” strip, and every Calendar phase chip — so you can answer “what does the moon look like during the Festival of Lanterns?” without changing your campaign’s actual current date.

Empty state

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If you have no cycles defined yet, the dashboard shows an empty state pointing you to Settings → Cycles → +. The four templates (Standard Moon / Twice-Daily Tide / Four Seasons / 12-Month Festival Ring) cover the common cases.

Cycles set to GM only are hidden from viewers who can’t edit — keep secret cycles like a hidden curse cycle invisible to players sharing your world.

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