It's not monsoon levels of rain --far from it, in fact-- but we got about two months' worth of rain in one week. There was enough rain that I half-expected to see somebody constructing an ark, but nobody was that enterprising of a soul in my neighborhood. We did get a bit of water in the basement, but my redirecting the drainage around the house last Fall apparently was a good enough of a job that the amount of water was pretty minimal compared to last Winter.
Still, that got me to thinking about rain in gaming.
A lot of times, rain is a minimal inconvenience; a bit of background flavor. However, if you've ever been caught out in the rain, it can suck if you're not prepared. And then try to imagine being caught in the rain in armor --modern or medieval or ancient, doesn't matter-- and slogging through the mud and the muck to get to wherever you're going, and yeah, rain is a bigger deal than we tend to think it is.
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| I thought that the beginning of Helm's Deep was a master class in the impact of rain. From Reddit and Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. |
Therefore, in honor of that past week's worth of rain --thankfully it's sunny as I write this-- here's some memes about rain in RPGs and gaming.
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| I have to admit it's one of the more unique ways of introducing everybody in a new RPG campaign. From Instagram. |
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| It's a D&D meme to have a Cleric bless the clouds so that they'll rain holy water, but this takes that meme to its logical conclusion. From Imgflip via Twitter. |
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| I guess you could say I'm glad I'm not in it. From Twitter. |
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| And yes, there's always that Tauren joke about rain. From Twitter. |
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