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In game and out of game, weather can be a huge impact on the players and PCs.  This week, the worst snow storm in around 35 years has hit my area and left us buried in several inches more of snow than I have ever seen in my 15+ years of living here.  Unfortunately, this week is also our move week, and our poor movers have been stuck 20 miles away at a truck stop unable to go anywhere.  Schedules are all up in the air, which includes my gaming schedule, and things are playing out basically hour-by-hour now.

We were able to get out today and despite the plows having moved most of the deep snow, the bitter cold has made all forms of salt ineffective on the roads, so they've been packed into solid sheets of ice.  The roads were actually worse today.  Tomorrow, with the increasing temperature, I am hopeful that the movers will be able to get here and the roads will start to drastically improve.

In the meantime the daughterlings (off from school from winter break for an extra third day tomorrow) and my wife and I are a bit stir crazy.  We had the two college daughterlings with us cooped up for the last few days too, until we got them home to their apartment today.  Cabin fever is circling.  I would like to get more done in the garage, but the frigid temperatures have made it near impossible.  It is all media all the time now -- computers and TV and texting, with not much else for us to do until after the move.  What I wouldn't give for a miniature to paint about now.

This experience has given me an awful, evil idea.  Lock all the PCs in a single room for hours, perhaps days, and never let them leave.  Throw the adventure at them entirely in a single room.  This could be truly odd, almost worthy of a stand-alone mini-RPG.
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