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<blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 5410144" data-attributes="member: 1210">Cross-posted from Circvs Maximvs because there are a lot of non-overlapping people on both sites these days and I'd like to get the opinions of both crowds. Winter is a lot rougher when you are in a non-heated vehicle such as your boots or a horse. Most groups of pcs don't tend to travel via carriage except in occasional Ravenloft or Eberron adventures, at least in my experience.Rain, snow, hail, just plain cold- all of these things make it kind of a pain in the butt to travel towards that abandoned mountain fortress or that remote swamp full of lizard folk. Does anyone take this into account in their campaigns? Do the pcs hunker down for the winter? DMs, do you use weather as a plot point in adventures? Players, do your pcs buy cold weather gear for adventuring in winter? (Do you even know what season it is in your campaign right now, for that matter?)I have used winter a lot. One group assembled at a waystation built by elves for sheltering travelers during the winter; the pcs and several npcs spent the night while one of the npcs gradually showed more and more signs that he was a creepy blackguard of legendary repute (kind of a spooky rp session with 1st level pcs). Another group had to venture out in order to stop the bad guy on New Year's Eve, the only time when he could perform some kind of ritual. (That one didn't work out so well for the pcs- they ended up captured and following him into the middle of an epic magic apocalypse.) There have been several times when weather has come up (heavy winds made ranged attacks hard, downpour makes fire hard, and of course in the old days no storm meant no call lightning for druids).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="the Jester, post: 5410144, member: 1210"] Cross-posted from Circvs Maximvs because there are a lot of non-overlapping people on both sites these days and I'd like to get the opinions of both crowds. Winter is a lot rougher when you are in a non-heated vehicle such as your boots or a horse. Most groups of pcs don't tend to travel via carriage except in occasional Ravenloft or Eberron adventures, at least in my experience. Rain, snow, hail, just plain cold- all of these things make it kind of a pain in the butt to travel towards that abandoned mountain fortress or that remote swamp full of lizard folk. Does anyone take this into account in their campaigns? Do the pcs hunker down for the winter? DMs, do you use weather as a plot point in adventures? Players, do your pcs buy cold weather gear for adventuring in winter? (Do you even know what season it is in your campaign right now, for that matter?) I have used winter a lot. One group assembled at a waystation built by elves for sheltering travelers during the winter; the pcs and several npcs spent the night while one of the npcs gradually showed more and more signs that he was a creepy blackguard of legendary repute (kind of a spooky rp session with 1st level pcs). Another group had to venture out in order to stop the bad guy on New Year's Eve, the only time when he could perform some kind of ritual. (That one didn't work out so well for the pcs- they ended up captured and following him into the middle of an epic magic apocalypse.) There have been several times when weather has come up (heavy winds made ranged attacks hard, downpour makes fire hard, and of course in the old days no storm meant no call lightning for druids). [/QUOTE]

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