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dom6:snow-move [2026/07/26 23:30] (current)
druwski new page: snow movement penalty
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 +====== Snow Move ======
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 +{{:abilities:snow_move.png?nolink}} A creature with **Snow Move** ignores the movement penalty that snow imposes in cold provinces.
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 +===== Map Movement =====
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 +The cost of crossing a province border is the sum of two half-steps, one for leaving the first province and one for entering the second. See [[map-movement]] for the wider system. A snow-covered province makes both of its own half-steps **1 point** more expensive, and Snow Move removes that penalty.
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 +The saving therefore depends on how many of the two provinces are snowed in.
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 +^ Move ^ Extra cost without Snow Move ^
 +| Between two cold provinces | 2 points |
 +| Between a cold province and a warm one | 1 point |
 +| Between two warm provinces | none |
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 +A province is snow-covered whenever its [[scales#temperature|temperature]] is cold, however that cold arose. Sea provinces and cave provinces never count as snow-covered, so the penalty does not apply to them at any temperature.
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 +The penalty is applied before roads are taken into account, and a road makes the finished half-step cost 2 points lower, so a road can absorb part or all of it.
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 +===== Other ways to avoid the snow movement penalty =====
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 +Snow Move is not the only way to escape the penalty. It is also never paid by:
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 +  * creatures with [[flying|Flight]], which are not subject to terrain movement costs at all
 +  * [[Floating]] creatures, including those floating from the [[bless#air-effects|Weightlessness]] bless
  
dom6/snow-move.txt · Last modified: 2026/07/26 23:30 by druwski