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.
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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