11: Skiing And Sledging And Snowboarding
Skiing and Sledging and nowadays Snowboarding: Snow presents the opportunity to go downhill very quickly by sliding on something, if you can control it well enough.
I’ve done this myself with a plastic sledge with equally plastic controls when I was a kid. Given how generally risk-averse I was in my youth, the novelty of sledging must have had a significant effect.
I never really got good enough at staying upright while trying to ski. (My mother was good enough to go on Alpine ski trips in her teens.)
Nowadays these make up a lot of the winter sports you’ll see in events like the Winter Olympics.
You can also go on the flat with cross country skiing or wth dog sledding for added complications.
In the event of getting involved in a land war in winter (which is rarely a good idea) you might end up needing troops on skis. This in turn led to the Biathlon, the most Player Character of winter sports. Skiing also comes up quite a lot in James Bond for the same reason.
Unless you’re running a game set around a winter resort - possibly involving snowboarding kids working there trying to save it from an evil development firm - or a winter sport superhero team, downhilling on snow is unlikely to come up regularly. Cross-country skiing is more common in isolated arctic region adventures.
It’s a good setup for a chase scene in a session of an adventure game set somewhere cold, a literal change of scene and pace.
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