11-25-2016, 12:40 PM | #1 |
Join Date: May 2016
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Urban Survival for Campfires Indoors?
I feel like GURPS made a note of this use of the skill... but I can't find it anywhere!
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11-25-2016, 01:26 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Sep 2007
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Re: Urban Survival for Campfires Indoors?
Urban Survival ought to tell you that it's a bad idea to have a fire indoors unless you have a properly constructed chimney. CO2, CO, and smoke aren't something you want to confine in your room to breathe repeatedly.
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11-25-2016, 09:41 PM | #3 |
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Join Date: Jul 2006
Location: 100 hurricane swamp
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Re: Urban Survival for Campfires Indoors?
Even if it isn't in the RAW anywhere I'd allow it. Trashcans fires are a staple of the Urban Survivalist.
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11-25-2016, 09:42 PM | #4 |
Join Date: May 2016
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Re: Urban Survival for Campfires Indoors?
Yes exactly! And I feel like I've seen that example in an official GURPS book! O:
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11-25-2016, 10:24 PM | #5 |
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Lawrence, KS
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Re: Urban Survival for Campfires Indoors?
I think building a fire indoors uses Housekeeping/TL1-6.
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11-25-2016, 11:27 PM | #6 |
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Location: Jeffersonville, Ind.
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Re: Urban Survival for Campfires Indoors?
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I read somewhere that in the developing world lung cancer from breathing wood smoke is a common cause of early death.
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11-26-2016, 05:07 AM | #8 |
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Maitland, NSW, Australia
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Re: Urban Survival for Campfires Indoors?
For thousands of years an indoor fire involved nothing but an open stone hearth in the middle of the room. Any roof made from organic material did not have a smoke hole. The smoke simply filtered up through the thatching. Experiments have showed that a smoke hole acts to draw embers up high enough to set these roofs on fire.
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11-26-2016, 09:07 AM | #9 |
Join Date: Dec 2006
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Re: Urban Survival for Campfires Indoors?
I will refrain from scoffing and saying 'city-folk', but I tend my TL-8 pellet stove daily; starting fires, cleaning, etc, to keep the house warm. A large portion of individuals who live in rural areas in north america supplements there heat with some sort of biomass burning, as the combination of high cost for deliverable heat options (fuel oil, propane, and rural electricity) coupled with the lack of heat retention due to higher exposure to wind translates to a strong desire to use the cheapest methods of heat, and biomass is cheap
Since its part of regular household maintenance activity I would assume its part of TL8 housekeeping; possibly with the specialization of 'urban', but even in city having a high efficiency wood fireplace is not unheard of. As well, from early to mid TL7 cooking indoors where natural gas lines were not available was still a 'put wood in stove' scenario (even in the 1970s indoor wood stoves for cooking were a thing) |
11-26-2016, 09:17 AM | #10 | |
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: UK
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