Can Favored Terrains Overlap?

[ATHATH]

For example, if a city is in an area that has a cold climate, does it count as both "urban" and "cold" for the purposes of the Ranger's Favored Terrain ability?

[legomaster00156]

It's more about the environment than the climate. While a city may be found in a desert, traversing a desert city confers far different challenges than the desert wilderness.

[Florian]

For example, if a city is in an area that has a cold climate, does it count as both "urban" and "cold" for the purposes of the Ranger's Favored Terrain ability?

While FT can have overlap, your example doesn´t work as you have to choose terrain types, not climate.

[Waker]

If a specific terrain falls into more than one category of favored terrain, the ranger’s bonuses do not stack; he simply uses whichever bonus is higher.
Last sentence in the Favored Terrain description.

[ATHATH]

Last sentence in the Favored Terrain description.
Ah, good. I'm playing in a norse, Human-only campaign soon, and I'd rather prefer it if my Fey Magic variant Human didn't have his SLAs shut off whenever he goes inside of a city.

[Florian]

Ah, good. I'm playing in a norse, Human-only campaign soon, and I'd rather prefer it if my Fey Magic variant Human didn't have his SLAs shut off whenever he goes inside of a city.

You know, by RAW you have a problem here. FT overlap is a very specific thing, needing very specific conditions to happen at all. Both terrains must be present at the same time, like, say, a heavily wooded mountain counting as both, "woods" and "mountain". A city in a cold land doesn´t qualify.