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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nagol" data-source="post: 5499386" data-attributes="member: 23935">The 3e DM can control pace through the swamp about as well through abstracting the environment as well.DM: "You're at the edge of The Swamp of Icky Swamp Stuff.  Your destination is deep within probably at a least day maybe two based on the muck you need to wade through.  Any special precautions?  No? OK roll a d20".Destination is 14 hours of normal travel within.  The group will realise it is getting close once it is within 4 hours of travel and not lost.The Swamp of Icky Swamp StuffTo avoid becoming lost: Survival DC 12 1/hour Take 10 is possible if no combat that hour (harder than a moor but less than a full forest).  <Note that this means a group with a Wis 14+ character or any character with a trained Survival of +2 or better cannot get lost unless there is a serious distraction like combat.>Disease check: Fortitude Save DC 12: Filth Fever 1/day for anyone susceptible to disease.Wandering monsters: chance 1/20 every 12 hours of day travel, and 1/10 overnight.  Average EL 6 during the day, EL 9 at night (see chart). <Chance  of an encounter is remote, but the DM left some chance by assigning a probability.  The players have some strong control over the likelihood to avoid encounters by forcing the travel to be a single day.>With this setup, the PCs are in control if the lose the equivalent of a healing surge by using Forced March or Hustling to reduce the chance of random encounters and other dangers.</blockquote>

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