Heatstroke

[Lord_B]

On Table 10-13 of the Core Rulebook, the Mild heat temperature range is marked by an asterisk.

* Adjust temperatures down by 15° in areas of high humidity.

Is this supposed to say adjust temperatures up?

Evidence for:

• People can quickly get heat exhaustion and then die of heatstroke at those temperatures at high humidity, but will only experience heat exhaustion (and slower) in arid areas.
• The point on the curve at which this distinction is most noticeable is around these levels, so it would explain why this rule only applies to mild heat.
• "Adjust temperatures down" could be replaced by "Treat as normal temperature" and create the same result with less math. "Adjust temperatures up" lands in 2 zones, and thus gives purpose to the math.

Evidence against:

• In fiction, the hot arid desert is often portrayed as harder to traverse than the hot jungle, so hand-waving the problem early on prevents an awkward explanation before the problem of the temperature is of self-explanatory concern.
• The real danger of high humidity at high heat would probably carry the same rule into severe heat and extreme heat.

[Draco18s]

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Is this supposed to say adjust temperatures up?

No, you adjust the temperature numbers listed in the table downwards.

For example:

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Mild heat 95º F* to 104º F*

If there is humidity, then "mild heat" is in the range of 80-90. The-actual-temperature-that-it-is is still 100, but has moved from Mild Heat to Severe Heat.