Exactly, snowshoes is bettet for combat. You have your hands free,
you can go in the dirty wood, pursue an enemie outside of the mains
trails and, make a good ambush.
For our game, our players will be equiped with oldstyles snowshoes
made in wood and leathers. We keep the super modern and extra light
models for our "Legolas footed" npc and monsters.
Pierre-André
- In HeroQuest-RPG_at_yahoogroups.com, "L.Castellucci"
<lightcastle_at_...> wrote:
>
> On January 15, 2007 01:48 am, Jane Williams wrote:
>
> > Oh, wow! Dragon Pass winter for real!
>
> Except my Montrealer friends have been saying it hasn't been a
proper cold and
> snowy Quebec winter, sadly. :(
>
> > > It will be a
> > > guerilla war. In the dark wood, with a lot of snow
> > > the mouvement
> > > will be very limited, (ski and snow-raquette will be
> > > nesesary!!)
> >
> > Snowshoes?
>
> Yup, raquette is snowshoes.
>
> > You really know how to use them up there?
>
> Some people do.
>
> > What advantages do they have over skis? (Not that I
> > know how to use those, either, but at least I've seen
> > pictures).
>
> If I remember from friends who are more winter-oriented, the main
one is
> having your hands free. While you sometimes use poles, they are
not as
> necessary as they are with skis. Also, you are able to move on
deeper, looser
> snowdrifts than with skis. (My friends would snowshoe to
somewhere they
> could then ski.)
>
> That's about all I remember.
>
> LC
>