Re: Fimbulwinter Tales

From: Trotsky <TTrotsky_at_...>
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 10:42:18 +0000


HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com wrote:

>trotsky wrote:
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>>> even outside the Fimbulwinter, daytime temperature in the Sartar
>>> Darkseason regularly drops to below -30 c,
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>joe wrote:
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>>It did say "sometimes".
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>Indeed - average winter temperatures are freezing (0 C). The -30
>figure is for those really cold days in Dark Season (and by extension
>there may be more kindly days in Storm season).
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>>I think these days in non-Fimbulwinter are the cattle-killing
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>winters which figured in KoDP now and then.
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>I think of them as those nasty cold-snaps that last 2-3 days before
>seasonal temperatures return whe the darkness really bites, so yes.
>

I suppose if those are the sort of cold-snaps that come round once every dozen or so years, and turn out to be due to trolls/Valindi/whatever cursing your clan (and thus are highly localised) then I could accept it. It depends what you mean by 'sometimes', I guess :)

>Of course YGMV.
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Indeed. Besides, it's hardly much to get upset about :)

And the book is really cool, isn't it?

-- 
Trotsky
Gamer and Skeptic

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