Weather, Temperature and Seasons
I know the general setting for Blades has it being dark all the time, but what do people generally have as the weather in Doskvol? What about the temperature? Is there seasonal variation?
For me, I think of London so gloomy, sometimes rainy, mild to cold and four seasons, albeit less dramatic than you may get in other parts of the world (light snow in winter, slightly warmer in summer).
What do other people play? Or am I forgetting an obvious section in the book that outlines all this?
I like messing with the weather. First scenario, I described snow hissing to steam on the plasmic fences. Oppressive heat making everything sweaty and tightening ribs against breathing is a great feel for the city. Weather! Seasons! They are great.
While I’d like to make it warm- I can’t justify all the layers of clothing that make the populace iconic and the hiding of equipment possible. If there were to be seasons of some sort – there would need to be house rules on some of the basics of the game.
Although technically you could handle it in fiction “Why is that stranger wearing 10 layers as though they’re hiding an aresenal? Everyone else is in shorts and shirts!”
Peter Cobcroft It’s only disqualifying if you decide it is. Clothes protect against scrapes and rough environments, against harsh winds, and if you wanted you could put a summertime ash-fall from the plasmic fences that irritates and burns the skin.
But would they be in shorts and shirts? Or would they be in full Victorian garb, as actually happened in London of the time? Fewer layers of breathable fabrics isn’t that miserable, and at some point, you choose discomfort over scandal (total nudity is probably more comfortable than shorts and a tee, but…).
Or perhaps the style in BitD is to wrap yourself in light-coloured linens, Bedouin-style?
Maybe it’s also a prompt for more elaborate disguises. I’d imagine theater troupers and mummers and executioners get to run around with masks and hoods and facepaint regardless of the season.
Ah. When I think warm I forgot to mention I’m Australian đ
I love breathing life into a setting through its seasonal variations. I have a fairly good understanding of climate patterns in areas far from the equator and especially near large bodies of water (both of which Duskvol appear to be, p.95, v7.1) – so I decide it based on the season (and a fiat), using wind, rain/snow, and clouds most frequently.