We got evauated!

[Dirigible]

Glad to hear you survived without too much damage, Tonguez. I'm in Auckland, so the anti-rain protections we've had in place for the last, oh, three million years did their job.

and earthquakes and floods are difficult for them to create.

Druids!

 

[s/LaSH]

Druids!

Druids would have a hard time doing worse than Nature here in Wellington (capitol of New Zealand, for those wondering about such things). You know why there's a city here? So many rift lines converge that the sea got in and made a harbour.

Fortunately the city hasn't been destroyed since the, um, 1860s or some such. (That was when the international airport rose out of the ocean. Well, what we later made the airport.)

Still, looking out from my hilltop aerie gives me an appreciation for the power of nature...

 

[s/LaSH]

PS: I'm also 100% certain that I've seen a free adventure on the web dealing with rising flood waters. It was associated with some new devils or demons of low power, I can't remember the specifics and I can't find it in my stuff cache. Anyone else remember this? It was a year or two ago, I'm sure...

 

[Shallown]

I have used a house fire and such before. Its kind of fun if you allow characters to use skills and spells in unique not strictly by the book ways.

later

 

[Tonguez]

Where are you at? I'm in Wellington,

I'm in Turangi - did you see us on the news

Things are relatively back to normal (although the roads still a mess and we had one death which was indirectly related to the flood - well sort of).
I was also in Turangi (visitng my parents on break from Varsity) when Ruapehu erupted so had the Ash fall for a while too

I'm gonna have to think about how to fit a flood in to a game somewhere- in the past I've used a city on Fire as a game element (started when the PCs were exploring the sewers and threw a torch to get pass a rat swarm and inadvertantly hit a methane pocket! BOOM)

 

[s/LaSH]

I'm in Turangi - did you see us on the news

Things are relatively back to normal (although the roads still a mess and we had one death which was indirectly related to the flood - well sort of).
I was also in Turangi (visitng my parents on break from Varsity) when Ruapehu erupted so had the Ash fall for a while too

Come, holiday in scenic New Zealand! You probably won't die!

... loses something as a slogan, doesn't it?

I don't watch the news, sorry. I'm more a newspaper man. And they've been filled with Oscars coverage the past few days 'round here. (Apparently, we won. Except for Keisha, who'll just have to settle for being the youngest-ever nominee, and try again later.) Still, glad to hear you're OK...

 

[Dirigible]

I'm more a newspaper man

S/lash : He prefers information he can wrap his chips in!

Loses something as a slogan, doesn't it?

 

[Steverooo]

I used a flood in a campaign I once ran, yes...

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I swear I read this as, "We Got Evaluated" instead of Evacuated heh.

Me, too. I thought at first WOTC was going around evaluating gaming groups for core rules compliance.

Glad to here you're OK -- did you take your gaming materials so you'd have something to do until you return?

I've never used a flood as an in-game event, though I've flooded a few dungeon rooms as traps. Neat idea, though, for an exciting town- or wilderness-based adventure that's more problem than combat oriented (unless, of course, rogue water elementals or river fey are causing the flooding to remove a settlement from their favorite river bank ... )