The Sirocco spell and wind speed

[Adrian Carlstedt]

The Sirocco spell creates a powerful, hot wind that can knock people prone and inflict fire damage. It has a duration, so the wind persists for a short while.

Shouldn't the Sirocco also have other effect of high winds, like giving penalties to ranged attacks and fly checks? That would seem to make sense.
And at what wind speed? On the top of my head, I would say hurricane, judging by that they can knock people prone.

[Dave Justus]

Rules wise it does what it says, nothing more, nothing less.

As for what it should do, that is a question that the rules can't really answer, if it helps though, it does say it is a blast of hot wind, 'blast' implies a very short duration so given that the spell has a fairly good duration, it probably generates multiple blasts of hot wind rather than a steady blow.

That is really irrelevant to the spell effects, but if it helps you conceptualize it then great.

[Ravingdork]

SIROCCO
noun
1. a hot, dry, dustladen wind blowing from northern Africa and affecting parts of southern Europe.
2. a warm, sultry south or southeast wind accompanied by rain, occurring in the same regions.
3. any hot, oppressive wind, especially one in the warm sector of a cyclone.

Sounds like it would be pretty constant throughout its duration to me.

[Dave Justus]

Ravingdork wrote:

SIROCCO

noun
1. a hot, dry, dustladen wind blowing from northern Africa and affecting parts of southern Europe.
2. a warm, sultry south or southeast wind accompanied by rain, occurring in the same regions.
3. any hot, oppressive wind, especially one in the warm sector of a cyclone.

Sounds like it would be pretty constant throughout its duration to me.

Fair enough, if you only allow it to either

1 & 2) only be castable in Europe.
3) only be castable in a cyclone.

I don't think the dictionary definition of the word has any relevance to the spell effect.