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<blockquote data-quote="Painfully" data-source="post: 1282114" data-attributes="member: 601">For some reason I keep thinking of jungles whenever I think of swamps so pardon me if I seem to cross over that line too often.Anyway, I love that there can be all sorts of tricky critters hidden under that layer of murky water in a swamp and maybe fog.&nbsp; Leeches, frogs, snakes, gators, Kuo-toa, lizard men, and maybe a kind of mixed dark/sea elf that has adapted itself to the dim swamps, are all appropriate.&nbsp; Dire hippos!Have you ever seen a nature special on lizards?&nbsp; I love the gecko's sticky tongue action.&nbsp; Gotta have some evil tongue somewhere in your swamp!&nbsp; What will the party's wizard do if he gets a kiss from one of these?!&nbsp; Haha, no spell casting for you!Along the same lines as the frogs, your temple might be to an ancient Sladdi lord.&nbsp; Perhaps he was summoned back to his own plane and left behind a cult to watch over his tomb/temple until he could return.&nbsp; The temple of Ker-mit.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Flies, or mosquitoes are good.&nbsp; What kind of swamp would it be if it didnt have a few billion mosquitoes.&nbsp; You might use them as a kind of constant background pest, preventing good sleep, making characters roll to properly memorize spells, etc., rather then as an actual combat encounter.Stirges or giant bats might also be appropriate.&nbsp; Beetles and bugs of all kinds should be plentiful.&nbsp; A coatl (the snake thing with wings) turned fiendish, or lich!&nbsp; Can you say, &quot;Aztec Temple of Horrors?&quot;The occasional man-eating plant would also be cool.&nbsp; Or maybe certain local plantlife gives off a sap or pollen with sedative or hallucinogenic effects.&nbsp; The local population might use it as a poison, a medicine, or as a kind of stimulant.Maybe a priest from the temple caused some great rift with his diety long ago, and the land was put under into a swamp as a retribution.&nbsp; So the temple might suggest something very different than what is currently there.Anyways, my 2 cents.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Painfully, post: 1282114, member: 601"] For some reason I keep thinking of jungles whenever I think of swamps so pardon me if I seem to cross over that line too often. Anyway, I love that there can be all sorts of tricky critters hidden under that layer of murky water in a swamp and maybe fog. Leeches, frogs, snakes, gators, Kuo-toa, lizard men, and maybe a kind of mixed dark/sea elf that has adapted itself to the dim swamps, are all appropriate. Dire hippos! Have you ever seen a nature special on lizards? I love the gecko's sticky tongue action. Gotta have some evil tongue somewhere in your swamp! What will the party's wizard do if he gets a kiss from one of these?! Haha, no spell casting for you! Along the same lines as the frogs, your temple might be to an ancient Sladdi lord. Perhaps he was summoned back to his own plane and left behind a cult to watch over his tomb/temple until he could return. The temple of Ker-mit. :) Flies, or mosquitoes are good. What kind of swamp would it be if it didnt have a few billion mosquitoes. You might use them as a kind of constant background pest, preventing good sleep, making characters roll to properly memorize spells, etc., rather then as an actual combat encounter. Stirges or giant bats might also be appropriate. Beetles and bugs of all kinds should be plentiful. A coatl (the snake thing with wings) turned fiendish, or lich! Can you say, "Aztec Temple of Horrors?" The occasional man-eating plant would also be cool. Or maybe certain local plantlife gives off a sap or pollen with sedative or hallucinogenic effects. The local population might use it as a poison, a medicine, or as a kind of stimulant. Maybe a priest from the temple caused some great rift with his diety long ago, and the land was put under into a swamp as a retribution. So the temple might suggest something very different than what is currently there. Anyways, my 2 cents. [/QUOTE]

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