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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6408992" data-attributes="member: 4937">No.  Again, there is a tiny blurb in Frostburn.  In general, the rules they moved from the environmental books to the Rules Compendium are better thought out than the source rules (there are big side bars in the Rules Compendium apologizing for how dumb the environmental rules are), but I don't recall right off the top of my head whether they ported the cold equipment rules.Basically, snow shoes and skis let you move on snow as if it wasn't difficult terrain.  Skis also let you move at run speed down a hill (they make no attempt to define what that means), and take a like round to take off and put on.   They make no attempt to quantify how hard it is to engage in melee combat wearing skis or snow shoes and offer nothing scalable (for example, compare ride), and I don't recall the skates rules but I'm pretty sure they wouldn't do for a hockey simulation.  The make no attempt to quantify how hard it is to ski when not holding a ski pole in each hand (for example, holding a sword or bow), or deal with player stunt requests like, "I'd like to ski down hill at top speed firing my bow at the dragon as I go."  Etc.  I suspect in play you'd find them basically unusable for anything but computing long distance travel rates.All of that could be 1st level of the PrC stuff.  You could front load all of that and not unbalance the class.  In fact, most of that could be covered by a single Favored Terrain bonus granting +X bonus on survival, perception (spot/listen, however you do it), and endurance checks when in the favored terrain.   That would be far more useful than saying, "You have a +X bonus to spot avalanches."   On the other hand, that's a bonus that is still so generally weak (because its is an enhancement of minor situational skills in a single situation, one environment) that its probably worth less than 1 bonus feat for anything up to about a +5 bonus.  It's not exactly something you'd be willing to trade a lot of features for.</blockquote>

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