Quote Originally Posted by Deadshade View Post
One of the main conséquences is that you'll have a mf....er of a desert right N of your mountain range so that there will be no rivers flowing from the mountains to the north. Certainly not in the central part.
Actually, there could well be rivers. The rivers feeding the Aral sea (Amu Darya and Syr Darya) and ones that feed the lakes of the Tarim basin all originate in mountains, even though they are on the "rain shadow" side. Large mountains are going to have ice caps that will produce water during spring and summer when the ice partially melts. Though it may be that the said rivers sort of "dry up" before reaching the ocean, that can happen with large desert areas. Although there shouldn't be too many (major) rivers.