A Land Far Away

I don't really know for sure what the climate around Baldur's Gate should reflect, but it seems awfully wet to me. Like rain forest wet.

Given the latitude location on a west coast, you'd think it would be something like maybe central California? I'm not sure. Of course if it's more like Seattle then the excessive rain is okay I guess.

Maybe there isn't a way to tone down the weather patterns, but it rains so much that basically every RP conversation starts out with how much it's been raining. All I know is, if I lived there in real life I'd be one miserable soggy guy.

Try moving to the UK.

90% of our conversations start about the rain.

Cast_No_Shadow wrote:Try moving to the UK.

90% of our conversations start about the rain.

...and the other 10% of our conversations start with 'bloody' (or your regional equiv.).

I-KP wrote: ...and the other 10% of our conversations start with 'bloody' (or your regional equiv.).

Fitting, as in FR 10% of conversations end bloody.

Bloody rain.

Same words, very different meanings between the real world and the fantasy one.

Canonically...the climate there is so dern aweful, there is a wizard in Baldur's Gate who makes his living off of the prevention and removal of mould, and hordes his cantrip very protectively.

danielmn wrote:Canonically...the climate there is so dern aweful, there is a wizard in Baldur's Gate who makes his living off of the prevention and removal of mould, and hordes his cantrip very protectively.

Speaking of, are there any spells that would let the rain just roll off of you? I was going to have Aislinn research a variation spell that mixed the effects of Endure Elements and the cleaning of Prestidigitation. Selling cloaks that keep the cold and rain off would make her rich! >.>

Theres a reason Zyrus loves the city so much, but the players hates the crowd :p

FoamBats4All wrote:

danielmn wrote:Canonically...the climate there is so dern aweful, there is a wizard in Baldur's Gate who makes his living off of the prevention and removal of mould, and hordes his cantrip very protectively.

Speaking of, are there any spells that would let the rain just roll off of you? I was going to have Aislinn research a variation spell that mixed the effects of Endure Elements and the cleaning of Prestidigitation. Selling cloaks that keep the cold and rain off would make her rich! >.>

Spell research per DMG is supported with enough DM support. Eerily, the kind of thing you're proposing, either was done a couple months ago, or was started a couple months ago (then member vanished).

Sheep's wool naturally contains lanolin which is a wax. Not really a stretch in a medieval fantasy to imagine that cheap cloaks are made from unprocessed wool and would therefore be waterproof ;-D

Unless your PC is vegan, in which case, you can just get wet ;-p

danielmn wrote:Canonically...the climate there is so dern aweful, there is a wizard in Baldur's Gate who makes his living off of the prevention and removal of mould, and hordes his cantrip very protectively.

This, pretty much. There's only one open-air market in the city (The Wide) because no one bothers trying to set up anything else with all the rain.

Mold is a constant problem throughout the city as Dan here states and not only that, but many mushrooms and molds are farmed in the city's cellars and used in all sorts of things.

Interesting aside is that BG's geography doesn't seem overtly conductive to excessive rainfall. Wettest places in the real world are overwhelmingly where prominent winds come in from a wet and warm sea, and meet a rapid elevation, where perspiration happens due to air chilling as it raises. So for example Candlekeep, where there is mountains nearby unlike BG, should probably be wetter.

While BG rain is probably more like soggy London than monsoon India, it still might be a bit excessive that the rain seems to go on/off like every 15 RL mins, or 2 IG hours.

But, eh, maybe we playing Dungeons & Dragons and not Meteorologists & Geographers

t-ice wrote:Wettest places in the real world are overwhelmingly where prominent winds come in from a wet and warm sea, and meet a rapid elevation, where precipitation happens due to air chilling as it raises.

Fixed that for you (even if sweaty mountains paints a more interesting picture).

An old relative of mine used to tell me when I was a kid that rain is God taking a piss.

I guess rain being caused my sweaty mountains isn't much different