Disney's Gargoyles in GURPS

[Daeglan]

Originally Posted by Vaevictis Asmadi

Yeah... they had, what a couple of weeks for each episode? In the days when the internet was a wee tot? And I think the philosophy was the same that goes into the superhero genre: it looks cool, so go with it. I just personally prefer more plausibility for things that are explicitly non-magical (like the gargoyles).


Anyway, in a city environmet, and especially with a place like downtown Manhattan where lots of skyscrapers are next to each other, sometimes separated only by one street, how will the airflow be? Realistically, it seems unlikely there will be any upward slope lift on any but the skyscrapers closest to the sea. Further inland there should just be much weaker winds running down the streets but not really up the sides of buildngs, right? Now at higher altitudes, near the tops of buildings, there might be some dynamic soaring opportunities if you're right, and it sounds like you know more than I.

Quite a bit actually. My understanding is there is quite a lot of wind pushing those buildings around.