[Horror] [Low-Tech] Hearthfires going cold and other Low-Tech spookiness

[Christopher R. Rice]

Yeah, there are rules for fire bundles in Pyramid #3/90: After the End (p. 32)

[evileeyore]

Originally Posted by Ghostdancer

1. I think he's saying that fires simply won't ignite or go out due to some supernatural force.

I can accept that.

2. At most an hour? LOL. No, dude. I've seen someone spend 3 hours using a pump drill in a swamp to get a fire going in 40F weather. Firebows are even worse when dealing with damp kindle or firewood. Granted, that may not be the case because you have the materials in a shelter out of the weather, but that seemed like a blanket statement about primitive firestarting.

Sure, and I once struggled all day and failed. It happens.

I was just rather responding to the notion that it's faster to walk for half a day (or more) to the next town/manor lord's residence for fire than to try to start your own. I'd imagine that even in a medieval town/hamlet/farm area at least one residence would try to restart their own fire rather than admit to a neighbor they let their fire go out*.



* Which ranks right up there with losing your hat or not knowing where your towel is.

[Christopher R. Rice]

Originally Posted by evileeyore

Sure, and I once struggled all day and failed. It happens.

I was just rather responding to the notion that it's faster to walk for half a day (or more) to the next town/manor lord's residence for fire than to try to start your own. I'd imagine that even in a medieval town/hamlet/farm area at least one residence would try to restart their own fire rather than admit to a neighbor they let their fire go out*.



* Which ranks right up there with losing your hat or not knowing where your towel is.

That's actually fair. I think you could pull this off...but you need isolation to make it work.