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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 6718242" data-attributes="member: 29398">Before I was ever a D&D geek I was - and still am - a weather geek; so of course weather is relevant in my game!  Ages ago when I started DMing I did up a bigass convoluted series of weather tables, used them for a while, then abandoned them and just started going by memory.  Each game-day morning I roll some dice - d% for general conditions, d% for windspeed (j-curved), and d% for temperature.  If needed because someone's levitating outdoors or something I'll roll a d8 for wind direction.For general conditions low = sunny, clouds increase as the roll gets higher until by about 60% it's solid overcast.  The high 60's to low 90's are increasing amounts of rain (or snow), the mid-90's get stormy or hail or whatever, and if I get into the high 90's or 00 fasten your seat belts.  All of this, of course, varies by location - for example even a 75% roll in the middle of the desert still means almost entirely sunny.For windspeed - it's flat calm if I roll very low, mild or intermittent breeze on a low to mid roll, steadily increaing through the 70's and 80's.  Get into the 90's and there's a gale blowing.For temperature, I have a vague idea of what the seasonal average should be for where the party is and if I roll near 50% that's what you get.  Lower means colder than average, higher means warmer.Written by a lycanthrope?  Dare I ask how that works? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Lan-"mentioning the in-game weather now and then can really help set a mood"-efan</blockquote>

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