In one of our campaigns we turned up to a little Polish town with about five weeks to go before the first snows. Once I'd made it clear to the players that the chance of them surviving winter was virtually nil because:
- They had no food.
- Everyone else had little, if any, food.
- There was absolutely no possibility of them buying or trading for food no matter what they offered.
The players asked for a town map, worked out defences and set themselves up as the town Militia (the town had been taken over by marauders who they had 'disposed of')
So then they started working out schedules for the NPCs for cooking fuel, foraging and defence. They planned their own missions for seizing fuel off marauder bands. They drew up plans of fortifications for the town that they were going to over-winter in.
This is sort of what the question was about
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