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So I'm sending my group into the Sodden Lands soon for part of my campaign. I have everything I need ready to go...except the weather. I've read the Inner Sea World Guide and looked on Pathfinder wiki but it's day to day weather still isn't clear...to me at least. I know it's a swampy landscape with fens, bogs, swamps, rivers and such, rains as much as in Seattle and Vancouver. But "perpetually storm battered" is stumping me.
Does that mean it's hurricane force winds and rain all the time everywhere in the Sodden Lands? Is it just a weekly hurricane or two rips through the land? Is just the coast perpetually storm battered?
Wanting to know so I can make the terrain and weather conditions accurate and so I can pre-plan my survival checks for my group. Cause if it's storming and raining all the time I have to add vocal restrictions and the wind level and frequency of course affecting ranged attacks and sight...and maybe flying debris. So any further insight on what you all think the weather would be, or if any Paizo staff has an answer, I'll take what I can.
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It's not always storming in the Sodden Lands, but it is frequently. The Eye of Abendego is obviously the most dangerous weather effect out there, and thunderstorms and tropical storms peel off from it with great regularity. The skies to the west (depending on how close you are to the coast) would look like a wall of gray clouds and sheets of rain out in the gulf. On days when it's not storming, there would be welcome blue skies. If I were to guess (without doing extensive research) I'd say that the Sodden Lands get annual rainfall in excess of 500 inches a year with rainfall occurring at least 300 days a year. Unlike the Pacific Northwest where the rain is more often a sprinkling than real rain, much of the rain in the Sodden Lands would be closer to clumps of thunderstorms than a casual rain.
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Just looking at the rainfall tables for Cherrapunji, India (the so-called "wettest place on earth") and it looks like there are droughts in the winter, and heavy rainfall through the monsoon in the summer. Moreover, it claims that most rain falls in the morning. So, there's time to dry out in the afternoons... or get chased by the giant (and hungry) worms that erupt from the ground during the rainfall.
It also has these things:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_root_bridges
Which in a fantasy setting might be pretty darn awesome.
Also, just looking at the environment there, it seems like the highlands are heavily forested and such. Maybe the swampy jungle bits are only the coastal regions or other lowland areas?
Just looking at the rainfall tables for Cherrapunji, India (the so-called "wettest place on earth") and it looks like there are droughts in the winter, and heavy rainfall through the monsoon in the summer. Moreover, it claims that most rain falls in the morning. So, there's time to dry out in the afternoons... or get chased by the giant (and hungry) worms that erupt from the ground during the rainfall.
It also has these things:
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Which in a fantasy setting might be pretty darn awesome.
Also, just looking at the environment there, it seems like the highlands are heavily forested and such. Maybe the swampy jungle bits are only the coastal regions or other lowland areas?