D&D 5E What is Barovia like in the winter?

[Stormonu]

28 days of night… (That’s 28 days later + 30 days of night)

 

[Faolyn]

In earlier editions, the Balinoks became utterly impassable due to the heavy snows blanketing the mountains, and the wolves became even more dangerous from hunger. But as everyone else has said, it might be better to just stick with the nightmare logic of the place.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

If Strahd's mood affects the weather (and to be fair Dracula used to bring a storm with him), a quest might be to find him, and jack him full of Prozac just to make the world a better place.

 

[Greenstone.Walker]

The skies always dark and cloudy in Barovia isnt it? Its tends to be cool, though in Winter it drops to freezing, with thick snowdrifts blocking roads, avalanches in the high areas and hungry predators wandering closer to settlements

Doesn't that just describe life as normal in Barovia?

 

[Iry]

The books don't go into extreme detail, except to say that the mountains become choked with heavy snows, and that the winter seasons make the people and wolves lean with hunger and desperation. These are mostly one sentence blurbs. There is also a line about winter coming and going for several years as Strahd studies with Azalin.

 

[CleverNickName]

I imagine Barovia has the same four seasons as real-world Romania has:

Almost Winter​

Winter​

Still Winter​

Road Construction​

 

[jayoungr]

Seeing as Barovia is a Romanian analogue, what rarely takes into the account that it would most likely have a harsh winter.

If you want to know what Barovia is like in the winter, read the Adventurer's League Season 4 adventures, particularly DDAL04-02, "The Beast." They are set during winter.

EDIT for more detail: Snow is mentioned in several of the adventures. "The Beast" features a severe oncoming storm at the beginning of winter. The adventures are set in a small village north of Vallaki, and a major plot point of the season is how (due to various misfortunes) the village may not have enough food to get it through the winter.

 

[Shades of Eternity]

I imagine Barovia has the same four seasons as real-world Romania has:

Almost Winter​

Winter​

Still Winter​

Road Construction​

Never realized barovia might have the same seasons as alberta.

 

[Tonguez]

Doesn't that just describe life as normal in Barovia?

Yup, pretty much

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Never realized barovia might have the same seasons as alberta.

I just looked it up, and Romania does have a very similar climate to Alberta. Romania does have hotter summers though.

Both are wetter than England!