The lands
Rocky coast weather for your tabletop campaign
Cliffs and headlands over a gray sea: cool, windy and often wrapped in fog, with gales that drive the spray over the rocks and the odd rogue wave.
Through the year
Averages from a year of Skyscribe's weather in typical the rocky coast. You can set how high, how far from the sea and how far from the equator it lies, and the weather follows.
How it sounds at the table
A few days from that year, as Skyscribe describes them to read to your players. No two days read the same.
Wrack heaps dark and slick along the tideline as rain sweeps over the cliffs, and the gulls sit with their backs to it. Damp cold gets into the knees and stays there, and old folk complain about their joints. Something glints in the mud in an old rut: a lost horseshoe, which someone pockets for luck.
It is a black, roaring storm of the kind that ends up in songs about the dead, and it sits right overhead. Soft damp air smells of the earth, while the rain comes in long slants on the southwest breeze.
The autumn sky is clear and very blue, and the geese overhead are arguing about the way south. There is a light air from the north, coming and going in little puffs, and the day is balmy.
What to watch for
The hazards that come with the rocky coast. When the weather makes one likely, Skyscribe shows the risk and lets you roll to see whether it strikes.
- Rogue wave
- Rockfall
- Landslide
Villages and cities
Put the party in a village or a city and the scene and the writing move into the streets, styled to suit the rocky coast.
The cliffs loom out of the gray and are gone again, and the boom of the sea comes from nowhere in particular. Doors and windows stand open to let the day in, while the jackdaws hang on the north breeze. The harbor bell tolls slowly to warn the boats, and the fishing boats stay tied up.
Rare sights
Keep an eye on the scenery. Now and then something unusual turns up in the picture, and a few sights are rare enough that most players will never see them.