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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aeolius" data-source="post: 5230846" data-attributes="member: 2072">Agreed. unusual lifeforms bring out the truly alien nature of the realm of liquid space. I have humanoid anemones, jellyfolk, and the like... and I often mutter to myself in mock-ixitxachitl.    When in comes to subaqueous terrains, one can have forests of mangrove roots, massive stalks of kelp, or tangles of gargantuan anemones. Envision a swamp of floating sargassum seaweed, with creatures living above, within, and beneath the massive tangled raft. In addition to black smokers (hydrothermal vents) other chemosynthetic races might dwell within the saline rich undersea lakes known as cold seeps. One might explore massive fields of sea grasslands or the lifeless regions of urchin barrens or dead coral deserts.   Of course one also needs to take into account ocean currents and depths, when considering terrain. Massive eddies, tidal bores, and whirlpools can prove hazardous, as well as chilling thermoclines and the crushing pressures of the depths.    Add to that those combatants who know how to drop hooked nets from above, or release buoyant spheres of seaweed laden with urchin poisons from below.    The interplay between Drylanders and aquatic races was one reason I had several races deify the surface as Synsaal, the Barrier Between Worlds.    Greyhawk has such a character in Drawmij.   Sea hags, shellycoats, greenhags, shoal hags, reef hags, fish hags, and more... gotcha covered. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> And then there is Lusca the Bloodless, an albino tauric sea hag joined to the body of an octopus. Granted, her tentacles end with the faces of eels.</blockquote>

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