Is it possible to have a world with only temperate and cold climates?

Mars.

Does it matter if it's possible or not?

>>54410045
this.
it's your fucking setting. I don't get why so many people on /tg/ eel the need to "justify" their fantastical world. like, even with sci-fi you can bullshit.

>>54409957
Yes, just lower overall temperature. Will still have biomes like chaparral and steppes due to low precipitation in certain areas though.

>>54410102
I think it's nice he puts in the extra effort, it has a certain elegance to do what can be done with mundane means. The hand of the author becomes visible if you spend to much word of god, or in inopportune places.

>>54410202

>it has a certain elegance

I also feel it creates a different player experience when you can actually understand and predict things in the world using real-life logic.

"How the war goes is entirely up to Todd" is a different experience than "Ok, Todd's described the Maeonites as having high morale, but if this drought keeps going they're not gonna be able to graze their horses. Their whole order of battle is cavalry-dependent. We should tell the Trade Princes to fight defensively, they can win the long game."

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>>54409957
Just don't have any landmass in the areas that are not temperate or cold.
Pic related. Raise the water level enough, and half of Mars turns into an ocean.

>that's not how climates and weather work
It's enough of a justification for a fantasy work.

>>54409957
Have any tropical areas explained away as being either submerged some time ago or highly inadvisable to explore due to a plague with an obscene mortality rate and no known cure.