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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Firebird" data-source="post: 9857965" data-attributes="member: 7015803">Thank you both for this. I will play around with some different ideas. I like the symbols a lot. I played with this a bit, but it deserves revisiting. Iirc I stuck with it because I liked the predictability it gave the players; heavy rain almost never comes after a clear day, for example. But of the 15 cloud/precipitation categories, many don't occur and it would be nice to condense. This is a fun solution to the seasons which I hadn't thought of. The main tradeoff is making the DM roll more. I've seen systems where you roll on separate tables for temperature, clouds, & precipitation, which look simpler than a matrix but ime take longer. Here, the table looks intimidating but it is one roll and one lookup, which plays fast. Another idea is to just make more tables. A temperate climate could have one table per month; others maybe fewer. It is easy to generate those from the data, but more effort for the DM to print them off. Most people might not like that granularity...but folks who want simulationist weather are already a niche, and they might like it.</blockquote>