Quote from: Barbatruc;826952Oof, not just weather but maps, manors, vessels, households, price lists. Thanks for sharing!

No problem. :-)

Yes. I have tables for each biome that generates temperature and chance of precipitation based on the month of the year. That is cross referenced with probable cloud cover. 2-3 rolls gives me the weather.

I've been thinking of putting it into an excel spreadsheet so that I could crank out a month of weather at a time.

I probably should...

Thinking over my longer running campaigns, I didn't use weather much at all in OD&D.

For my Runequest campaign, I used weather for every day of the campaign. Griffin Mountain came with seasonal weather tables which made it pretty easy to figure and it was simple to add it to the daily campaign log. Admittedly this would have been more record keeping if the PCs had split up into more than one geographical location where they would experience different weather. Fortunately that didn't happen.

Call of Cthulhu weather was a dramatic element for mood and atmosphere either to fit the scenario or to highlight the region - e.g. even though Egypt does get precipitation everyone really expects a visit to the pyramids in the daytime to be hot and sunny.

In the Star Trek and Star Wars campaigns weather was a dramatic element (ion storms or Planet Hoth) or just part of the planetary mono-environments that those genres tended to feature. I did run a smuggler mini-campaign was located in a region with a giant pulsar that provided a kind of space scale weather that affected communications and travel.

For Honor+Intrigue I've been struggling how best to use weather. It is a definite feature in swashbuckling fiction and has a dramatic impact on travel and on combat (matchlock muskets don't work well in the rain as more than a heavy club). Since the campaign is set in (mostly) historical Europe I'd like to have typical weather for the 1620s, but I haven't found a good source for looking up actual weather nor a generator that I like...so still looking.

Quote from: Barbatruc;826565For my Greyhawk campaign, I let this online weather generator. It implements the method from the Glossography in the 1983 box set — previously published in Dragon, I believe. I run the thing for a in-game month, take a screenshot, consult when needed. It's had pretty profound effects on the campaign, like heavy rains making rivers unfordable, then continuing for a few days and making travel impossible... and obliterating tracking information that would have been mighty useful to the party.

Wouldn't mind a similar gizmo for the Wilderness Survival Guide method...

That generator looks pretty good.

I'd like to use something like this for Honor+Intrigue, but I'm not sure what the Greyhawk months correspond to earth wise.

Yes and no. Usually just yes, but in the current campaign, a powerful winter witch is successfully extending winter. It's still the equivalent of early March, so it's not yet obvious what's going on, but I'm making a point of openly rolling for weather so as the campaign continues it will become more and more obvious that something is wrong.

As an aside, this is only one of many things going on, so they may or may not choose to deal with this themselves, or arrange for somebody else to deal with it, or they may even trust that the other powers that be nearby will be attempting to deal with it rather than making it a problem they take on  themselves.

Quote from: Bren;827123That generator looks pretty good.

I'd like to use something like this for Honor+Intrigue, but I'm not sure what the Greyhawk months correspond to earth wise.

Eh. 364-day year divided into twelve 28-day month and four 7-day festivals (but 360 days per year and 6-day festivals in the 1980 folio). Months correspond to seasons as follows, starting with the new year:


Needfest
Fireseek:   Winter
Readying:   Spring
Coldeven:   Spring
Growfest
Planting:   Low Summer
Flocktime:  Low Summer
Wealsun:    Low Summer
Richfest    Midsummer
Reaping:    High Summer
Goodmonth:  High Summer
Harvester:  High Summer
Brewfest
Patchwall:  Autumn
Ready'reat: Autumn
Sunsebb:    Winter


These season lengths are in the 1980 folio so they are probably based on Greyhawk City's 35N latitude rather than the generator's default 40N latitude. Gygax may have based the physical geography of his world on the Lake Michigan coast, but he sure didn't base the climate on that. (And whoever wrote the generator followed suit.)

Quote from: Barbatruc;827228Eh. 364-day year divided into twelve 28-day month and four 7-day festivals (but 360 days per year and 6-day festivals in the 1980 folio). Months correspond to seasons as follows, starting with the new year:

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Needfest
Fireseek:   Winter
Readying:   Spring
Coldeven:   Spring
Growfest
Planting:   Low Summer
Flocktime:  Low Summer
Wealsun:    Low Summer
Richfest    Midsummer
Reaping:    High Summer
Goodmonth:  High Summer
Harvester:  High Summer
Brewfest
Patchwall:  Autumn
Ready'reat: Autumn
Sunsebb:    Winter


These season lengths are in the 1980 folio so they are probably based on Greyhawk City's 35N latitude rather than the generator's default 40N latitude. Gygax may have based the physical geography of his world on the Lake Michigan coast, but he sure didn't base the climate on that. (And whoever wrote the generator followed suit.)

Thanks that helps.

I should be able to match the months now and by tinkering with the latitude/geography I should be able to get something acceptable for  the various climate zones in Europe. I already know the lunar phases for Europe in the 1620s, so I can synch that up manually.

Thanks for the various charts, but they're too tied up to the setting they are designed with, doesn't anyone have a setting neutral one to share?

I just find out what the region's like and the season and then roll the weather, adjusting for what I think locally it's likely to be from there.
I roll every few game days.

Quote from: RPGPundit;826425In your D&D games, do you regularly/meticulously track the weather?

Or only in those rare occasions where you feel it really matters?

Or very rare occasions if it is mentioned in the module, or just remember that might enliven an otherwise dull trip.

I tell the party the weather every day. I reskinned Neverwinter and Phandalin in LMoP to actually be in a snowy region; so far it's been crisp and clear, but there will be a blizzard soon enough.

Quote from: Christopher Brady;827267Thanks for the various charts, but they're too tied up to the setting they are designed with, doesn't anyone have a setting neutral one to share?

I just googled "weather generator for rpgs" and lots of links came up. Here is a neutral one at a Pathfinder site.

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/environment/random-weather-generator

Now I want to see a Chaotic weather generator.

I do not track weather.  When traveling through the wild on a day-by-day scale, I will give a roll to see what it is doing.

Quote from: ptingler;827472I just googled "weather generator for rpgs" and lots of links came up. Here is a neutral one at a Pathfinder site.

http://www.d20pfsrd.com/gamemastering/environment/random-weather-generator

Oh neat!  Thank you!