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<blockquote data-quote="AaronOfBarbaria" data-source="post: 6932579" data-attributes="member: 6701872"><p>Some rambling ideas:</p><p></p><p>Disease.</p><p></p><p>Crocodiles, giant constrictors, piranhas.</p><p></p><p>Natives that will provide aid, but you must honor their customs that seem strange to outsiders. Like having to agree for each member of the party to marry a member of the tribe because only tribe members, which the party would be after marriage, are allowed to tread the lands the party needs to be guided through, and the tribe would be hostile if this custom is refused. Or needing to eat what is basically potentially deadly poison in order to prove worth.</p><p></p><p>And my favorite to include in any "wild" area: drums in the night, chanting, robed figures, strange signs painted or carved, idols depicting unknowable beasts - and a cult dedicated to the old ones, just going about their normal cult activities, which might just involve capturing some fresh meals for the eldritch beast they worship, or given to their patron old one through sacrifice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AaronOfBarbaria, post: 6932579, member: 6701872"] Some rambling ideas: Disease. Crocodiles, giant constrictors, piranhas. Natives that will provide aid, but you must honor their customs that seem strange to outsiders. Like having to agree for each member of the party to marry a member of the tribe because only tribe members, which the party would be after marriage, are allowed to tread the lands the party needs to be guided through, and the tribe would be hostile if this custom is refused. Or needing to eat what is basically potentially deadly poison in order to prove worth. And my favorite to include in any "wild" area: drums in the night, chanting, robed figures, strange signs painted or carved, idols depicting unknowable beasts - and a cult dedicated to the old ones, just going about their normal cult activities, which might just involve capturing some fresh meals for the eldritch beast they worship, or given to their patron old one through sacrifice. [/QUOTE]
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