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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jon_Dahl" data-source="post: 5575687" data-attributes="member: 89822">I have a slight dilemma with weather in my Greyhawk game.I don't like this text, because it leaves everything pretty open. So what are your chances of getting struck by a lightning? This guideline above makes it sound really nasty (60 lightning bolts per hour) but on the other hand it gives nothing solid.D&D talks lot about weather dangers, and lightnings should be pretty high up there. I read somewhere that after floods, lightning is the number one reason in USA for weather-related deaths (please don't ask me to find the source). So relatively, we should give them something more specific than this vague guideline.So I see three possibilities here:1. Realistic possibility. Chances of getting struck by a lightning is 1/250,000 or so. So let's forget the whole issue. Lightning storms without a hurricane or severe wind are a joke, no danger to PCs whatsoever.2. PCs that are disregard standard safety procedures should have some minor chance of getting struck by lightning. If a PC is in the open and has a metal armor, he/she gets the "lightning strikes you!"-roll every hour. Otherwise there's no danger during a thunderstorm. But what would this roll be? One in a thousand? Is there any point?3. DM makes a hidden roll and sometimes a PC gets struck by a lightning, if DM feels like it. DM refuses to explain mechanics behind the roll.How do feel about this? IMO lightnings should be dangerous for PCs, but how dangerous exactly? I really tried to dig information, but it's hard to say because nothing relates to a PC wearing metal armor and riding a horse in lightning storm.</blockquote>

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