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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FitzTheRuke" data-source="post: 8109410" data-attributes="member: 59816">A few lines of text here-and-there in the adventure tells us that Winterpocolypse has lasted two years. Everything else in the adventure implies that it has not. Personally, I chose to go with the parts that make it not stupid as opposed to focussing on the parts that make it yes-stupid. I mean, I can't even get my head around how a spell would stop the sun from rising in an isolated part of the world, but the rest of the world is fine. (Really powerful illusion, maybe?)I've never once in 35 years used an adventure without spotting something that I thought was stupid and ignoring it. I didn't even consciously notice this one until I got involved in this discussion (so quick was I to ignore anything that tried to tell me that it was Full Dark Winter for Two Whole Years). Like some people here have mentioned, that was probably the result of multiple hands creating this book for multiple purposes. It's an Icewind Dale Gazeteer and a Horror-Inspired Adventure, but clearly there's some tape still showing from where it got pasted together. (And it seems they had some push-back, or back-and-forth on just how much horror to include). It's a little clunky, to be sure, but as far as Adventures go, all said, I still maintain that this one has some really great bits. Above average, in the very least.</blockquote>