So I've just started a new character in Barca, and I'm curious about how people roleplay the various climates throughout Dwilight. It seems like people feel that the Marwood is almost more of a jungle, so I would imagine it and the surrounding area are quite hot? How far would this extend, e.g., would it be fair to say that slowed travel times in the Maroccidental "winter" are actually due to it being monsoon season or something like that?
Quote from: Sabrier on June 01, 2011, 04:32:13 PM
How far would this extend, e.g., would it be fair to say that slowed travel times in the Maroccidental "winter" are actually due to it being monsoon season or something like that?
That sounds quite reasonable to me.
In the north we do not do a lot of RP around the climate; I think it is generally accepted that the north is colder, with a standard four season rotation that includes hot summers and cold winters with snow and ice.
I've always had difficulties with roleplaying the weather...
The south is sub tropical, the area around marwood will thus feel very hot, the woods will keep the air very mousty. coastal areas and hill stations will be lovely in the south, nice, windy and cool.
Keep in mind that mountains block air streams and thus (rain) clouds.
Also, the inner sea is probably more warm then the outer sea, and if there is a circular stream of hot and cold waters in it, one side of the continent could be warmer than the other.
Waves are also bigger in the ocean instead of the inner seas and straights connecting the outer with the inner sea, could be quite rough and possible dangerous.
In Madina we also roleplay a monsoon period during the winter coming from somewhere east, passing slowly over the isle, turning it into one big muddy !@#$ hole.
Quote from: Sabrier on June 01, 2011, 04:32:13 PM
would it be fair to say that slowed travel times in the Maroccidental "winter" are actually due to it being monsoon season or something like that?
This has been a fairly accepted idea in Terran for a while now.
Quote from: Shizzle on June 01, 2011, 10:08:49 PM
Haha :)
You won' laugh when you see our travel times >:( lolz ;)
Quote from: Laurens88 on June 02, 2011, 12:30:14 PM
You won' laugh when you see our travel times >:( lolz ;)
Haha :D
What, you guys have 60+ hour travel times in winter?
Quote from: Artemesia on June 02, 2011, 02:34:47 PM
What, you guys have 60+ hour travel times in winter?
no, but almost everything takes at-least 2 turns.
Plus your boots are all heavy...
Quote from: Artemesia on June 02, 2011, 02:34:47 PM
What, you guys have 60+ hour travel times in winter?
I have a 56 hour travel time from Paisly to Madina with 8 caravans. In summer.
Sea route. Blame your extra weight. Release some ballast already. Like your obese scribe.
Same route, I had 63 hours with a priest and no unit. It's not the scribe's fault....
Nope, it's YOUR fault that time ;D
Quote from: vonGenf on June 20, 2011, 03:25:58 PM
Same route, I had 63 hours with a priest and no unit. It's not the scribe's fault....
Don't hang around Madina to long or you'll end up like mr obese abbot. ;)
and maybe loose a leg...or two 8)
In Corsanctum I tend to roleplay the seasons as if it were regular seasons from Western-Europe (Belgium, France, Netherlands... that general area).
Quote from: Fleugs on June 22, 2011, 10:45:51 PM
In Corsanctum I tend to roleplay the seasons as if it were regular seasons from Western-Europe (Belgium, France, Netherlands... that general area).
Like
belgium? who would want antyhing like
belgium?
*shivers*
Belgians, of course. And even then its only a vocal minority of Belgians.
This is funny because I envision Terran's woodlands to be like those of western Canada. And guess where I'm from haha
Southern Florida? ;)
Everyone's a comedian ::).....
Lol
Quote from: Nosferatus on June 23, 2011, 11:44:58 AM
Like belgium? who would want antyhing like belgium?
*shivers*
They have good waffles. And don't listen to the rest of the Universe. On Earth, do as the Earthlings do. "Belgium" isn't a bad word.
Quote from: Artemesia on June 25, 2011, 12:18:43 AM
They have good waffles. And don't listen to the rest of the Universe. On Earth, do as the Earthlings do. "Belgium" isn't a bad word.
Could you stop about the damn waffles? For crying out loud! What they call a waffle in the USA doesn't even compare! :P
I mean, you people drink Heineken and call it beer..
Quote from: Raz on June 23, 2011, 05:24:36 PM
This is funny because I envision Terran's woodlands to be like those of western Canada. And guess where I'm from haha
Heh.
Yeah... might wanna work on that. We're semi-tropical.
By western Canada I mean Vancouver island, which is a temperate rainforest. I think it works.
Also... Kentucky is considered subtropical... Is it a coincidence that that is the climate you've chosen? ;D
Believe it or not, even New York qualifies (barely though)
Quote from: Raz on June 26, 2011, 11:08:16 PM
Also... Kentucky is considered subtropical... Is it a coincidence that that is the climate you've chosen? ;D
I said semi-tropical, not subtropical.
I envision Terran (and it has been fairly consistently roleplayed as) kind of like... Florida, or perhaps even as far as Belize or other central american climates. I hesitate to go too far south though, I see Madina as sitting just above the equator (Panama = Panamana?), and Averoth being somewhere around Canada... which sets Terran in the Caribbean or southern US. Northern Terran would be more mediterranean in climate, due to being drier, but southern Terran is certainly a jungle. Complete with monsoon-season (winter).
Quote from: Artemesia on June 26, 2011, 11:34:49 PM
Believe it or not, even New York qualifies (barely though)
I don't believe it, and neither should you. New York has a humid continental climate. Not subtropical.
I'm guessing you're using the Koppen classification when you say "subtropical" and "humid continental"? There are some climatologists who group according to mean temperatures during a year, which, combined with current patterns of warmer weather in some areas of North America due to (I think?) the southward shifted current (I forgot which one. Look, I like the environment, but I only did environmental toxicology), means some of the other climate classification systems might be revising a bit.
But yeah, fair enough, New York is part of group A.