How does your character prepare for cold weather conditions?

>"Warmest coat allowed by school"
Why would a school not allow a coat?
Even when you have uniforms, coats are outerwear, they don't count.

Clearly you have not lived in Japan.

I have not, though I went to school where uniforms were mandatory - please elaborate on the ruurrs of japanese schools

They set rather specific guidelines for outerwear in private schools, especially since more western looking cold weather wear looks athletic and has an association with urban fashion.

Depends on the day-to-day weather. Sometimes a jacket is enough, other times he needs full arctic warfare gear. 30-mph gusts make wind chill and snowdrifts a bitch. Of course, magic makes pretty much all preparation irrelevant, but fuck you I'm roleplaying.

I don't think my shadowrun character believes in cold weather.
She'll stay warm for a surprisingly long time with all the cyberware, but go hypothermic suddenly when the heat's gone from the bone lacing.

I like the idea of some single-minded wizard who only knows protection from fire rather than protection from elements, but decided he'd make the fucking best of it. "How do I prepare for cold weather? Cast protection from fire."

>private schools
>western looking cold weather wear looks athletic and has an association with urban fashion.
Huh, that actually makes sense, to a degree.
Though the latter is dumb, though being a private school rule that's nothing new.
I think we had a similar rule for trainers in PE, but no-one ever followed it

She's a capable life and forces mage, so she generally puts on just enough clothing so that her indifference to the cold won't stand out to the sleepers and then goes about her buisiness.

If she's out and about on strictly mage buisness, where there wont be any mundanes around, she'll just dress as nice/fashionably/appropriately for whoever we're meeting with as possible. She's one of the main negotiators so she needs to present herself well, plus it's a good way to subtly intimidate an adversary. If you've tramped out into the middle of the woods wrapped to your eyeballs in layers of clothing, sunk past your knees in snow, and shivering against the wind and your contact strolls into the clearing wearing a low-cut sleeveless dress and high-heels, standing on top of the snow (and therefore looming a few feet above you), and not even flushed, you can't help but be put on tilt at least a little. All without ever having having made anything that could possibly be construed as a threat.

Pulls on his Boots of the Winterwalker and goes about his business. At the same time he laughs at ice and other slippery conditions.

>western looking cold weather wear

OP is literally a duffel coat, ain't no schoolgirls running around in hantens ant thermal-lined furisodes

Warmth enchantment

He means "stuff western teenagers wear".

>urban fashion
A school discouraging "urban fashion"? If only more schools did that, so we would have fewer youths with pants round their ankles hooting and hollering like chimpanzees.

>wearing knee highs in the winter
Black tights would make the bad outfit a million times more tolerable and still be fashionable

Also a great cloak and being an elf.

Becoming near spherical in layers of clothing, sluggishness and a flat refusal to move for anything less than actual demons right here at this instant without someone using heating magic on him.
Perhaps I should have picked fire for his dragon breath...

for

Fur-lined coat during the day. Sharing warmth at night.

Hats are not necessary. First of all, thick hair traps a lot of heat. And the "you lose most of your heat through your head" thing is an old wives' tale based on misinterpretation of the results of a study.

It's the same rules that requires skirts even in winter.

They would still hoot and holler.

keep in mind, this is japan we're talking about. Appearance and decorum beat all over there.

>thick hair
Define that

My skinchanger from Florida isn't. Shes dressing in her wintergear and complains about the cold in late september for our Maine based campaign.

My PF dwarf is laughing at your cold weather. There are like 5 different spells for that. Not a problem.

My outcaste air dragon-blooded exalted character has never seen snow he did not create himself. He knows such things exist and will be prepared. He's just not sure how.
I assume he will consider it quite charming.

Fancy fur longcoat and ushanka, reinforced mitts, boots thick enough you can use them to walk on lava, and about five meters of shawl.

He doesn't like environmental conditions ruining his beautiful hair and perfect complexion.

Why don't many schools in the US use uniforms again?

Not that it helps on weekends or once they've changed after school, but it's a start.

Eh, really dumb rules are a private school thing, but uniform being maintained even in shit weather is less dumb than most.
On the other hand the girls' uniform had a trouser option that was universally more popular, so this wasn't an issue

I dunno what to tell you. Hair that is densely packed.

It helps if it's long enough to form layers.

"Eh, it's not that cold. The wind just bites a little. Cover up and you'll be fine."

The flip side is she's crippled by any day above room temperature.

>Why don't many schools in the US use uniforms again?
Americans value freedom and individualism.

And the girl on the right is cuter anyway.

Or am I just jaded enough that my brain is rating being sensible as more attractive than actual cuteness is?

Also as anywhere with uniforms shows, uniforms are actually fucking useless at enforcing any kind of clothing conformity.

>rating being sensible as more attractive than actual cuteness is
>jaded
???
since when is wanting a partner that can care for themselves and doesn't only care about appearance 'jaded'?

You'd have liked the Miyuki-zoku, rebellious urban youths who shocked and scandalized their elders by... wearing western suits and styling their hair with more attention than was considered appropriate.

It's easy in a country in which compulsory education ends at 15.

Americans have a right to education, and we don't have any classist notions of wear in our schools.

I think the state of dress is deplorable, but only private schools have the freedom here to enforce it.

It would be easier to simply authorize and subsidize club/organization attire in most US high schools: everyone gets to wear club clothing all the time instead of just athletes on Fridays

>Eskimo boots are not good enough for cold weather

Motherfucker, have you seen where eskimos live?

Are you going to lecture ESKIMOS about COLD?

Wear layers of light clothing under layers of heavy clothing. Keep a warm kettle of water or a heatstone handy. Bring a heavy blanket and a large bedroll so he can shiver all night, alone.

...

DISHONORBURU

Bundling up can be cute; you're not jaded.

Japans good at a lot of things. Logic in clothing isn't exactly one of them.

>2/10, both will freaze in harsh russian winter
But both would be fine in South Italy.

Japan was in the middle of shaping up for their very first Olympics at the time and didn't want these dandy poofters loitering around their classy neighborhoods embarrassing them

Boots that are good in near-Arctic Circle conditions aren't necessarily better in mild urban winter. Eskimo boots are intended to be breathable, so that the sweat of your own feet doesn't give you frostbite. This also makes them garbage when traversing the puddles and slush created by regular foot and vehicle traffic.

Go with normal winter boots. Your feet will thank you.

Which is why, of course, they salute the flag and pledge allegiance every day.

>implying they didn't have waterproof boots in the arctic, where getting wet can kill you

Sure, bro.

At least non-gyaru nips don't dress like sluts, and even the gyaru's are only copying what they see in Western media.

Doing it right now in my game.

Fey Blood (cold). Solves all problems.

He's a frost troll so... He pretty much can only exist in cold or temperate conditions.

nigga have you ever been in a public school? none of the students do it

Gyaru sluts are cute. Cute!

Oh, please tell me more about how salmon skin tanned with urine is more reliably waterproof than rubber.

It's more of an elementary school thing.

Wrong. Pure gyaru's are cute.

Kept them alive in the arctic for a thousand years, dinnit.

Which is why they dress like this nowadays, right?

not mandatory

You can value patriotism at the same time. They're not conflicting ideals.

Turns out having all of your hunting dogs slaughtered, your population devastated by southern diseases and your village forcefully relocated to strategic anti-commie positions where there's no food makes it difficult to find time and materials for making traditional clothes.

Oh, I see. It couldn't possibly be that clothes designed for the end user's environ with the benefit of modern materials science is more effective than clothes designed without and for a vastly different environ. Thanks for clearing that up.

"modern material science" can't even replicate the basic properties of wool.

Yes, it can. All you have to do is use wool in the design.

That's neither replicating nor modern.

You don't have to replicate a material synthetically if the material already exists and is abundant in order to use it in a design which draws upon modern understanding of the physical properties of the material and thereby uses the material in an optimal way.

So you admit it can't replicate or improve upon the material and therefore offers no advantages over traditional materials.

Uses magic to render himself and the party immune to adverse climactic phenomena, ranging from murderous blizzards to active volcanoes to direct lightning strikes.
Shuts down his own liver, again, if the conditions persist and he's forced to binge on his endless bottle of Zeon-restoring scotch to upkeep the spells.

Or just makes enchanted gear to protect from the elements, if he has the time.

He usually doesn't, so the former is far more likely to happen.

What the fuck are you going on about? You don't have to replicate a material entirely in order to improve upon it, and there are certainly advantages in using traditional materials in conjunction with non-traditional materials, in non-traditional designs, based on non-traditional knowledge.

...

>druid
>have mama bear animal companion
>comfy cuddles and bear hugs

>miyukizoku-nogamitoru

This is FABULOUS!

>The bear goes to sleep for 4 months

Thick layer of grease and primitive coat that's basically just flayed unprocessed hide of suitably sized beast. Petite lair-warmer or three optional.

>2/10, both will freaze in harsh russian winter
Good thing its a relatively mild Japanese winter.
>Average temperature of 5/41 C/F in Tokyo in January
>Average temperature of -8/18 C/F in Moscow in January
I mean I could deal with freezing temperatures wearing the clothes on the right. Legs might be a bit chilly but I'm just heading to school, not working outside all day and its not like I have the option of pants (I assume Nip girls have to wear skirts in most schools).

>"modern material science" can't even replicate the basic properties of wool.
Ever heard about polar fleece? It's around for what? 40 years? Twice as warm, can be windproofed (wool can't) and thickness can be ignored almost completely.

As someone who did survive Siberian winter without wearing any form of head-protection aside sunglasses and sunscreen - it doesn't work like you imagine, friendo. And before that I was doing duty as a guard in Arctic circle to avoid standard draft. Guess what - no hat either. The whole "40% of heat escapes through head" bullshit is literally a meme.

Hi grandpa, how are things going in 1920s?

I set the barbarian on fire.

With permission, no less.

I'm not sure you are aware how does winter in most of Japan looks like. Unless you are in some of the north-most prefecture or on Hokkaido, winter is pretty mild.
But sure, let's wear and before that buy clothes designed for getting to the Pole, because lo and behold, the temperature dropped below 0.

The US Army did some studies on how heat escapes the body. Most of the heat escaped through the participants' heads, but that's because their heads were the only part of their bodies that weren't covered, so of course that's where the heat escaped. That's where it got started.

>, let's wear and before that buy clothes designed for getting to the Pole, because lo and behold, the temperature dropped below 0.
>Implying this isn't exactly what people in the South do.

Righty is cuter.

comfy is cuter, but the layman doesn't think that.

You have to ensure that everyone in that society can afford to buy their kids the school uniform if you require uniforms.

U.S. has too many poor people who wouldn't be able to afford them without difficulty. Simply put, in order to be able to have school uniforms universally requires more of a socialist welfare state. You can't get that level of social order without a certain minimum of economic equality. U.S. put all of its points into liberty so doesn't have enough equality to enforce order or order to enforce equality.

Some schools in the US, including some public schools in poorer areas, provide uniforms or set a guideline (e.g. "white polo shirt and khakis") rather than a proper set-in-stone uniform.

Or at least some of them experimented with that. I dunno, it was years ago.

One has never had to deal with them, and will not have to deal with them.
The second doesn't notice it and only changes clothes to blend in.
The third can just adapt to the cold and not be bothered, but doesn't because that'd give away that they can do that and so layers up.

>It's the same rules that requires skirts even in winter.

I remember back in high school for dress days, girls had to wear skirts. They had to ask the administration to let them wear pants on a day when it was actually below freezing.

nothing - tough it out

It's a money issue. Public schools are supposed to available to everyone, and so to exclude or discriminate against people who could not afford the uniform would defeat that purpose.

Hell, my Catholic high school had a uniform, but it was a generic white/dark blue polo (school name stenciled on it) with khakis. Fuck those shirts were low quality so any one could afford them. The administration justified one reason for the uniform so that "cliques based on clothing quality wouldn't form"

>Japans good at a lot of things. Logic in clothing isn't exactly one of them.
When fashion gets involved this could be said about practically everyone.

Not a problem if you pump STR

Absolutely fucking wrong, pure gyarus are sad empty lies

>Fuck those shirts were low quality so any one could afford them. The administration justified one reason for the uniform so that "cliques based on clothing quality wouldn't form"
These things are basically how it went for us, and for the second part it may have even been relevant - the school was between two areas, one substantially richer, so it's not inconceivable that there would be more fights and things based on clothes

And the uniform was a very basic shirt and trousers with school tie and jumper (which was optional), meaning it was pretty affordable.

Though I do recall one school's contracted clothing supplier getting in shit for having a big mark-up on compulsory clothing that no-one else made

Wool isn't waterproof unless it's coated in lanolin and thus still attached to the sheep.
Modern materials can make a jacket that's toasty warm without being inches thick, and also have multiple pockets.
They can also withstand impacts and high-speed friction without major damage, and also deal with high-speed winds. With reflective bits on so you don't vanish at night.

You really don't know anything, do you?