Considering my players are in Sharn right now, I'm wondering how I can drive home that this is a TROPICAL climate, not just a standard European cold-side-of-temperate climate? I know about the heat dangers in the DMG and I've developed my own table for Southern Brelandish weather, but I'm wondering what else I could do?
Tropical Adventuring
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derelictjay
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Talk about the humidity, how they step out of a building/train/whatever, and it feels like thier swimming, and you gotta have bugs (am I describing a swamp, no) they love the heat (though the height of Sharn's towers makes this a bit implausible). Then to drive the message home have the air feeling hot.
Description: The door swings slowly open, and a wave of sticky moist air encompasses everything, bringing with it countless insects that search out any exposed skin you have. You move sluggishly forward, and not by any fault of your own, as you exit the building a blast of hot wind touches your face, and immediatly beads of sweat appear on your brow.
This decription is what I go through every day in the spring and fall months of Far South Texas, and don't even get me started on summer.
Description: The door swings slowly open, and a wave of sticky moist air encompasses everything, bringing with it countless insects that search out any exposed skin you have. You move sluggishly forward, and not by any fault of your own, as you exit the building a blast of hot wind touches your face, and immediatly beads of sweat appear on your brow.
This decription is what I go through every day in the spring and fall months of Far South Texas, and don't even get me started on summer.
The upper parts of the city are high enough in altitude for the air to be much cooler. You might emphasize the increasing/decreasing heat and humidity as they change altitudes in the city. Remind them that it is a largely vertical place. The nature of the atmosphere can change dramatically along with the architecture and ambience as they travel up and down the city.
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derelictjay
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Kesh said:
Yeah, but I don't picture Sharn as a tropical paradise but as a tropical hell.
[edit forgot why] As yeah the downtown beaches are nice but the weather's not (look at where Corpus Christi is, heh he, wipe sweat from brow.)
Like my beloved Texas
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