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<blockquote data-quote="JDJarvis" data-source="post: 1598569" data-attributes="member: 18640">I've spent a lot of time in swamps hunting and fishing and the general difficulty at getting around is the biggest issue one has to deal with. You can't trust the ground you are standing on in lots of swamps. It may be a bog carptet or plant growth a 150 pound man with 20 pounds of gear can skamper through but a 200 pound man sporting 40 pounds of gear will go crashing through and into the watery muck underneath.Almost dry land can be frequently broken by water of indeterminate depth&nbsp; that is just a little too wide to jump.A group of hunters I know once set about carefully mapping a favored hunting ground to get an accurate map of the area. It took a day to map a 5 or 6 mile stretch of woods a couple hunderd yards wide (one side of a ravine) and it then took a whole day to map about 1 mile of swamp about a hundred yards wide (the mouth of the same ravine near a lake).If PCs go into a swamp they will get wet. They will make a lot of noise traveling through swamp (vegatation and water) if they are trying to make any speed at all (more then a mile a day). They may have difficulty finding a place to sleep&nbsp; a place to eat or a way to keep warm.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JDJarvis, post: 1598569, member: 18640"] I've spent a lot of time in swamps hunting and fishing and the general difficulty at getting around is the biggest issue one has to deal with. You can't trust the ground you are standing on in lots of swamps. It may be a bog carptet or plant growth a 150 pound man with 20 pounds of gear can skamper through but a 200 pound man sporting 40 pounds of gear will go crashing through and into the watery muck underneath. Almost dry land can be frequently broken by water of indeterminate depth that is just a little too wide to jump. A group of hunters I know once set about carefully mapping a favored hunting ground to get an accurate map of the area. It took a day to map a 5 or 6 mile stretch of woods a couple hunderd yards wide (one side of a ravine) and it then took a whole day to map about 1 mile of swamp about a hundred yards wide (the mouth of the same ravine near a lake). If PCs go into a swamp they will get wet. They will make a lot of noise traveling through swamp (vegatation and water) if they are trying to make any speed at all (more then a mile a day). They may have difficulty finding a place to sleep a place to eat or a way to keep warm. [/QUOTE]

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