Right now, the rain is falling.

[Angcuru]

BAND TOGETHER ALL YE ENWORLDERS! CHRISTI WHITMAN IS UPON US!

I just came to the realization that:
A - Didn't Christi Whitman, Head of the EPA, recently resign from her post Edit political comment?
B - Isn't the rain ALL OVER quite freaky?
C - This can only mean one thing....

Christi Whitman is actually an Epic-Level Druid who took office in the EPA to further protect the wilds, but resigned Edit political comment, and now she is enacting her revenge! Her plan: make all of the US like Seattle, and the humans will commence mass suicide due to depression!

We must stand together! Let us stand in defiance of this new menace as say as one: ""We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight! We're going to live on! We're going to survive! Today, we celebrate our independence day!"


[/silliness]

Edit: No politics, please. --Dinkeldog

 

[willpax]

Not really centered on the weather, but:

I recently had a rather normal dungeon-crawl completely transformed by the simple fact that tehre had been several days of rain previously, covering the floor of the dungeon in about one foot of brackish, foul-smelling water.

It made the players completely paranoid because they couldn't see where they were stepping, and they kept sloshing around.

It also produced some nice rank steam from some fireballed zombies for added flavor.

So weather-related phenomena doesn't have to involve druids or other high-powered things. Sometimes just the slight change from the normal can complicate things enough.

 

[mythusmage]

Re: BAND TOGETHER ALL YE ENWORLDERS! CHRISTI WHITMAN IS UPON US!

(snip)...make all of the US like Seattle...

Now, who did Seattle tick off?

 

[mythusmage]

Not really centered on the weather, but:
(snip)

This gave me an idea. It's been raining for a week solid. 24/7 at a steady rate of 1/10th of an inch an hour. That's right, about 17 inches of rain. Life has gotten a bit soggy for most everybody.

The friendly local lich (after a few thousand years evil and world domination gets a bit tired) comes into town to hire our heroes. His task? Clear the drains in his lair.

Yes people, 17 inches of rain over a couple hundred square miles of territory means a lot of acre-feet of water. And it all heads for the lowest point in the area. The lich's lab is certainly a low point, and all that moisture is playing hob with his equipment. Which makes all the greeblies that came with the rain a tad unnecessary in the lich's opinion.

So that's the party's task; clear the drain, clean out the muck, and dispose of the gate crashers. The players will learn what wet, dirty work being a plumber really is.

Flesh out as you wish.

 

[Uzumaki]

Sorry, Pcat, but I'm going to turn your very interesting post into another tirade about overpopulation. Oh, wait. Is that political?

 

[bwgwl]

Devon Weather Table
=============================

1 - Rain
2 - Rain
3 - Rain
4 - Gama ray uv radiation from the sun, transforming 3/4 of the population into old people
5 - Rain
6 - DM's Choice or Roll Again

GURPS Goblins gives a table for British weather. it goes something like this:

January: a bitterly cold 36°, rain and sleet or snow and fog
February: a cold 38°, oppressive clouds or snow, sleet, and fog
March: a chilly 44°, fine weather or rain and fog
April: a crisp 50°, rain
May: a delightful 54°, gloriously sunny or genial showers
June: very warm at 59°, fine or genial showers
July: a stinking hot 61°, rain and showers
August: a sweltering 61°, fine or oppressive clouds
September: a muggy 58°, fine or gales and rain
October: a cool 49°, oppressive clouds or storms and rain
November: chilly at 43°, fog and clouds or rain and thunderstorms
December: a cold 40°, rain or snow and fog

now, i've never been to the Isles, so i can't vouch for the veracity of the table myself, but it does lend a certain atmosphere...

 

[Dagger75]

[ramble]



Right now my wife is out walking the dogs. I plan to have a towel and tea ready for her return.

Here is a D20 Modern adventure idea.

The wife of an author is FORCED to walk the husband's dogs in the rain. The cold pelting rain upon this women and the unholy stench of wet dog only makes the anger grow and become more powerful. The thoughts of him sitting inside and watching the rain through the window only infuriates her.

The adventures go to a house an discover the body of a man hanging by a towel from a ceiling fan and what appears to be a tea cup thrown through his head. There sitting on the couch is a women, quitly sobbing.

"I couldn't help she." she cries. "I was out walking the dogs, then I felt a rage, the next thing I know I am sitting here."

Agent Bob "My god, what kind of evil demonic force would make a man let his wife walk the dog in weather like this?"

The adventure begins.

Sorry P-Kitty, couldn't resist after I read it.

 

[Kid Charlemagne]

I try to keep the weather in mind when I'm running things. I have a very simple weather/precipitation chart that I roll on when I don't have a specific plan for how its going to be, and I'll generally roll before the dice for the entire journey ahead of time. Sometimes it can result in some nice coincidences.

Examples of weather use in my campaigns:

-An orcish attack on a small village was delayed by a torrential downpour, allowing the PC's time to finish their quest and return to aid the villagers in the fight.

-The PC's were on ship, searching for a sage who could help them with their overall goals, when they came upon an island in ocean. The sage was on the island, as well as an artifact called the Crown of Corruption (my own creation). The Crown could slowly over time turn people evil, and it also had Control Weather as a power, which it used to shipwreck corruptible souls on the island.

The PC's noticed a storm brewing, and then the air and sea around their boat became deadly still. They could see the storm clouds brewing, swirling around the boat at a distance of several miles. Then the clouds started zooming in from the opposite side from the island. It was clearly unnatural, clearly intended to drive the ship up on the rocks, and that really freaked the players out.

-The PC's were involved in a siege near the end of fall, and were outmatched in terms of manpower. The place where the siege was taking place rarely saw snow, but (through random chance) went through a cold snap with a light snow after the initial assault. This sparked an idea in one of the PC's who had an item that could control weather - she used it to whip the light snowfall into an all out blizzard, forcing the invading army to retreat, leaving its siege engines behind, and effectively ending the threat until the following spring.

 

[Sixchan]

GURPS Goblins gives a table for British weather. it goes something like this:

January: a bitterly cold 36°, rain and sleet or snow and fog
February: a cold 38°, oppressive clouds or snow, sleet, and fog
March: a chilly 44°, fine weather or rain and fog
April: a crisp 50°, rain
May: a delightful 54°, gloriously sunny or genial showers
June: very warm at 59°, fine or genial showers
July: a stinking hot 61°, rain and showers
August: a sweltering 61°, fine or oppressive clouds
September: a muggy 58°, fine or gales and rain
October: a cool 49°, oppressive clouds or storms and rain
November: chilly at 43°, fog and clouds or rain and thunderstorms
December: a cold 40°, rain or snow and fog

now, i've never been to the Isles, so i can't vouch for the veracity of the table myself, but it does lend a certain atmosphere...

No idea how farenheit works, but it looks about right.

I prefer:

British Weather (d1)
======================
1 - Rain

 

[Ashrum the Black]

Here in Michigan we've gone from the 60' to the 80's and 90's almost over night. The rain has at least finally let up here. It's the end of June and it's just this weekend warming up enough to put the soft top on my Jeep and open the pool.

Work.

Yeah.