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[almost titled this Cinder Wonderland)]
I've been gm'ing CotCT for two years now and we are slowly drifting into A History of Ashes. The party(oracle of bones, chirurgeon, fighter, sorc, divine hunter) just arrived at Harse and received major plot drops. They seemed more interested about the ongoing rodeo in town though, but oh well.
Anyhow, it's the 31st of Lamashan, or October IRL, and once these stooges get to the Cinderlands it'll be mid-November(unless they buy horses). This presents a challenge for me since the scenario is written with the intention that they're in the middle of Storval summer. It should be hot, hot, hot. Now it's not as hot.
Any ideas? How would the Cinderlands change in winter? Animal migrations? Giants coming down from the mountains? Major flooding?
This is not a "help me, I screwed up" thread but more of an attempt to pool ideas. I'm sure I could run it as is and just explain that the Cinderlands don't change much during the colder months, but eh, this might be cooler.
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You could check out We Be Goblins for some fun games. Especially the dance with Squealy Nord might be easily plugged into your game (maybe in a less cruel version).
Regarding the Cinderlands in winter, I don't think they change much at all. The volcanic activity is probably high all year and they might form a sort of micro-climate where the temperatures stay high even in winter. Maybe knock-off a couple of degrees of the average temperature but effectively, it is the same.
Somewhere in the text of History of Ashes the writer makes an off the cuff remark about how traveling through the Cinderlands in the summer would incur fortitude checks due to the oppressive heat.