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<blockquote data-quote="PugioilAudacio" data-source="post: 1567160" data-attributes="member: 16042">Ah swamps! My favorite swamp encounter runs something like this:The pary is travelling through the dank, musty, darke (etc.) swamp. They are currently slogging through a couple feet of murky water. Suddenly, it gets very quiet. They feel a current around their legs, as if something was down there. All of a sudden - SCHLOOP! - someone is pulled under. Then, another person falls shouting &quot;ahhh!!! somethings got my leg&quot;. Everyone begins thrashing around in pure chaos. People keep feeling things moving around them. Some PC's are trying to save the guy pulled under. Others are trying to free the other guy's caught leg. Tentacles keep pulling at people - and the whole party becomes mortally afraid of water.How can you accomplish this? Well, snakes (ie. boa's) can work but I prefer to use:THE TendericulosWith its improved grab and swallow abilities it is perfect for this kind of ambush. Plus, it can easily survive underwater. The environment should raise the challenge of this encounter as PC's won't really be able to see it (at first) and it's hard to attack at thinigs underwater. At first they may only get a few tentacles, at which point it will probably wait to regenrate a little, while still harrying them with whatever tentacles it has left. For added danger you can just advance it a couple hit dice as per the MM. You can say its grown really big in its long years in the swamp.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PugioilAudacio, post: 1567160, member: 16042"] Ah swamps! My favorite swamp encounter runs something like this: The pary is travelling through the dank, musty, darke (etc.) swamp. They are currently slogging through a couple feet of murky water. Suddenly, it gets very quiet. They feel a current around their legs, as if something was down there. All of a sudden - [I]SCHLOOP![/I] - someone is pulled under. Then, another person falls shouting "ahhh!!! somethings got my leg". Everyone begins thrashing around in pure chaos. People keep feeling things moving around them. Some PC's are trying to save the guy pulled under. Others are trying to free the other guy's caught leg. Tentacles keep pulling at people - and the whole party becomes mortally afraid of water. How can you accomplish this? Well, snakes (ie. boa's) can work but I prefer to use: THE Tendericulos With its improved grab and swallow abilities it is perfect for this kind of ambush. Plus, it can easily survive underwater. The environment should raise the challenge of this encounter as PC's won't really be able to see it (at first) and it's hard to attack at thinigs underwater. At first they may only get a few tentacles, at which point it will probably wait to regenrate a little, while still harrying them with whatever tentacles it has left. For added danger you can just advance it a couple hit dice as per the MM. You can say its grown really big in its long years in the swamp. [/QUOTE]

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