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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BSF" data-source="post: 1691155" data-attributes="member: 13098">They might be interesting wilderness books.  I will withhold judgement until I actually see them.  I'm not sure how much WotC "realism" I want in a game anyway.  I live at 5000+ feet.  I hike up to 11,000 feet.  I live in a desert.  We are in monsoon season right now and we average 1.73 in of rain in August.  We will have less and 10 inches of precipitation in a year.  I used to run distance, though the fastest I ever did a 10-mile was 62:35.  Because of the altitude, we keep the temperature relatively low.  But, temperatures in the 90's and 100's are not uncommon.  Yes, it is a dry heat and that does make a big difference.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I used to run distance at altitude in the middle of the summer in a desert.  By the Rules as Written, I must have had one heck of a Fort Save.  Of course, I am a native New Mexican.  I imagine somebody that lived in a lower altitude would have a bit of difficulty coming up here and easily doing the same things.  So I am not sure I want to see "realistic" or "detailed" rules.  I do want ways to make PC's *think* about decisions, such as wearing heavy armor during an overland march in the middle of the day.  However, I do not want that decision to be relegated to making multiple die rolls and hoping to be lucky or tough.</blockquote>

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