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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Drawmack" data-source="post: 523032" data-attributes="member: 4981">unpredicatable land.In a swamp the water can go from inches to feet in the matter of a step. The swamp by my house if you don't know where your going you could easily drown as there are sink holes that are 10+ feet deep.Swamps also have quick mud. I looks like regular mud but take a step into it and you sink upto your knees instantly and keep sinking. We did a test once, tethered the guy with a rope and he just stood there sinking. When we pulled him out he was upto his shoulders and said that he felt something warm moving around his feat.Here is something that you might want to consider, it happens around here all the time.There is a foot hill, at the base of the foot hill is a huge swamp. The terrain in the swamp is all messed up. Full of sink holes, streams that submerge and the emerge again. All kinds of wierd stuff. Then the foot hill is full of caves. This happens where a glacier stopped.There is this one thing that grows in the swamps around here, we are not sure if it is a plant or an animal but it looks like a fresh water sponge. In a fantasy setting these things could be made really nasty. Maybe underneath they are all mouth with nasty teeth that eat anything that touches them. Maybe they are poisonous or filled with poisonous spores. There are highly poisonious berrys that grow in the swamp which look almost exactly like edible berrys that grow elsewhere.You could enlarge some of the swamp creatures. I know that I wouldn't want to me a giant (4 - 5 ft) craw fish or 100 lb. snapping turtle.All of the trees are covered with vines and mosses, not hard to make these bad boys into something nasty in a fantasy setting.What about the trees themselves, tree ents anyone?The water could be a great place for slimes, molds and puddings to hide out.Far as the reptilians, there are cold weather reptiles that hibernate in the winter they are mostly small and a descent amount of snakes. Maybe some naga's or some cold weather kolbolds would be believable.What you have way more of in a cold swamp though are amphibians. Could you imagine a gigantic intellegent frog with a poison attack?</blockquote>

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