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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6408150" data-attributes="member: 4937">Don't expect too much.  The environmental books in theory addressed a huge hole in the rules, and were cool looking but in practice I didn't find much of anything of value in them.  Play testing was probably non-existent.  The environmental rules themselves are too fiddly to use in play - IIRC the desert one implies 6 survival checks every 10 minutes of game time at different DC's with different consequences.   All the books are in my opinion hampered by the fact that instead of being about hot environments, or cold environments, or wet environments, they spend a large amount of their time on Dreadful magical environments that are too tailored to a trope campaign - in Frostburn its a world where the snow is made of magical acid that burns you as well as freezes you.   Additionally, all address something DM focused - wilderness adventuring - but are bloated with a lot of ill-considered untested player material, particularly in the area of Prestige Classes, on the theory that this sells them to a wider audience.The amount Frostburn has on using skis, snow shoes, and skates could literally fill a single paragraph.  As far as making a PrC out of the concept of 'alpine superhero', I think you'll need to basically strip 10 levels of pathfinder ranger down to the essentials that pertain to the concept (say levels 7-16) focusing on the terrain specialization, and then add in some extraordinary supernatural abilities that are flavored as the result of the characters extreme familiarity with the environment - advantages when fighting at different elevations (except against individuals with the same class), cold resistance that increases with class level, once per day remote sensing when in alpine areas, once per day merge with ice, once per day weather control in alpine areas, once per day cause an avalanche with a successful attack on the terrain, once per day summon an ice paraelemental when in an icy or snow covered area, etc.</blockquote>

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