When Does SCAP start?

[Cryndo]

I found that the priest is accosted in the opening scene of the opening chapter in "late autumn". I'm sure there was more information somewhere. Seems like I saw an actual date and now I can't even find the year the adventure starts. Anyone know?

[Mage Evolving]

I think there is info about this on RPGgenius. I seem to remember reading the very same stuff but can't seem to find it anywhere.

[Cryndo]

Mage Evolving wrote:

I think there is info about this on RPGgenius. I seem to remember reading the very same stuff but can't seem to find it anywhere.

Maybe that's where I saw it. I looked there too, but couldn't find it. Not a Greyhawk expert by any means, but we're starting our campaign this weekend and I want to make sure I'm ready. Thanks for checking for me Mage Evolving.

[Haakon1]

To me, it all depends on when you want Flood Season to start.

Since Cauldron's environs are tropical - in my home version the economy is based on tropical slave plantations outside the city - the Flood Season is the local name for the monsoon.

Monsoons are interesting, as they happen at different times in different tropics. For West Africa and India, the wet season starts in June. For Thailand, it's more like October. For my home , it will be September, but it's an arbitrary choice based on a pre-existing timeline in my campaign.

If you want to be "authentic" to the original intent of the adventure, I'd bet it's based on Seattle weather, as Paizo and WOTC are both here, and the threat of the Howard Hanson dam potentially bursting in the winter rains was a huge issue locally for several years. Seattle's climate is long dry summers and long wet winters, with the rain typically starting in October, often with a major storm.

So make Flood Season October if you want the likely (and seemingly unstated) "original intent", otherwise chose a monsoon timing that suits you.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoons

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_season

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hanson_Dam

http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate.php?location=USWA0395

[Cryndo]

Oooh, Good stuff! Thanks. I saw it started in early autumn according to the book, but forgot about the importance of Flood Season. Thank you. Now I just need to figure out when these things occur year-wise on the Greyhawk calendar.

Haakon1 wrote:

To me, it all depends on when you want Flood Season to start.

Since Cauldron's environs are tropical - in my home version the economy is based on tropical slave plantations outside the city - the Flood Season is the local name for the monsoon.

Monsoons are interesting, as they happen at different times in different tropics. For West Africa and India, the wet season starts in June. For Thailand, it's more like October. For my home , it will be September, but it's an arbitrary choice based on a pre-existing timeline in my campaign.

If you want to be "authentic" to the original intent of the adventure, I'd bet it's based on Seattle weather, as Paizo and WOTC are both here, and the threat of the Howard Hanson dam potentially bursting in the winter rains was a huge issue locally for several years. Seattle's climate is long dry summers and long wet winters, with the rain typically starting in October, often with a major storm.

So make Flood Season October if you want the likely (and seemingly unstated) "original intent", otherwise chose a monsoon timing that suits you.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsoons

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet_season

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hanson_Dam

http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate.php?location=USWA0395

[Haakon1]

If you figure out good official (or just good!) info on Greyhawk climate for the Cauldron region, let us know.

As you know, it's meant to be Greyhawk and I assume most folks run it there still, or in a home modified 'Hawk variant like I do.

[ubertripp]

I started Patchwall 5 of CY 593 for my campaigns. That is autumn with enough downtime between the two adventures before "winter rains".

I mitigated the tropical climate with the elevation of Cauldron, making it seem a bit less tropical, except when folks descended the mountain...first to high savannah, then to lowland forests.

[Haakon1]

Nod. Cauldron is a hill station. That's a colonial outpost for the rich colonizers who moved in, while the plantation laborers work and die in the tropical. There's a lot of references to British imperialism and Caribbean slavery in my Cauldron. I think it's all there, but I'm not sure it's intentional.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill_station