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  • Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
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    Swamps. Bogs. Fens. Mires. Wetlands. They're some of the most miserable environments to trudge through, and that's why you should definitely make your players explore there. Here's all of our inspiration for building D&D and TTRPG worlds and adventures in Wetlands!
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  • @WebDM
    @WebDM  3 роки тому +25

    We fixed the title y'all, we'll get through this.
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    • @alexfrye8637
      @alexfrye8637 3 роки тому +3

      Dam I was here for the stamps

    • @davidhollowelljr949
      @davidhollowelljr949 3 роки тому

      I was wondering what stamps had to do with TTRPG's

    • @vulcorethegreat1220
      @vulcorethegreat1220 3 роки тому

      Hail the Bog of Eternal Stench!!!

    • @ttprophet
      @ttprophet 3 роки тому

      would love to hear a full episode on natural disasters and noncombat threats: hurricanes, flash flooding, tornadoes, dust storms, mudslides, forest fires, etc. What's the damage/consequences? what's the key to survival against the wrath of mother earth in overwhelming odds?

    • @KingXOreo
      @KingXOreo 3 роки тому

      Could you speak up or turn the mic up for the guy on the left? I'm new to the channel so idk if he's sick or something but the gravely voice is hard to hear.

  • @jacksonskinner7879
    @jacksonskinner7879 3 роки тому +33

    Pruitt, those puns have a Jim Davis stamp of approval.

  • @victorc3121
    @victorc3121 3 роки тому +31

    I had an idea for a Guild Artisan Ranger who reflavored Swamp to Sewer and was basically a member of Waterdeep's Pest Control.

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +7

      That's amazing and disgusting gg

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +5

      Yeah! I'm catching whiffs of Warhammer FRPG's Rat Catcher career. Did you have a small but vicious dog?

    • @victorc3121
      @victorc3121 3 роки тому +4

      @@WebDM I did not. It was one of my many ideas for PCs that I stored away in my character folder. Originally he was going to be Hunter with Beasts as his Favored Foe. Protecting the city from rats, snakes and gators.

  • @TheHalcyonCalamity
    @TheHalcyonCalamity 3 роки тому +95

    somehow "ad-mire" is the one that really got me

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +12

      nice

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +17

      Thanks! I'm proud of this one.

    • @vxicepickxv
      @vxicepickxv 3 роки тому +12

      I think Jim repeating Bayou self was what got me.

    • @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself
      @NoActuallyGo-KCUF-Yourself 2 роки тому

      I'm glad Pruitt also couldn't handle it.

  • @archer9338
    @archer9338 3 роки тому +10

    Imagine Leeches the size of Snakes. Wading through the water, you feel a sharp pain on your leg, you lift up your leg to find a Leech coiled around it from your thigh to your ankle.

  • @theacidicsniper_official
    @theacidicsniper_official 3 роки тому +10

    Ah yes. Stamps. My favorite adventuring environment. Got that free 2-day travel time with Arcanazon.

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +5

      Arcanazon Prime has free same day teleportation on select items!

  • @jpettersson19
    @jpettersson19 3 роки тому +5

    I want to highly recommend the OSR Module Fever Swamp. Full of great monsters and adventuring scenarios.

  • @LithiumAndDietSoda
    @LithiumAndDietSoda 3 роки тому +1

    Your episodes about exploration are always my favorite. They always have tons of solid info on how to bring these places to life.

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому

      Thank you so much! We love em

  • @dragonslayer213482
    @dragonslayer213482 3 роки тому +7

    Its Wednesday! Another Web DM episode to put a smile on my face. :)

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +1

      Daww

  • @markuswelander8551
    @markuswelander8551 3 роки тому +3

    Ah yes, time for the campaign where the monsters defend their swamp from humans.

  • @IFledFromKansas
    @IFledFromKansas 3 роки тому +3

    I like stamps:). Love you guys! Im sure this will be a fantastic video!

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому

      Like a walk in the park...of Dagobah.

  • @bobbypugh2666
    @bobbypugh2666 Рік тому

    Im running a campaign right now where a Black dragon was killed by a group of Paladins. Once the fight was over, only 2 Paladins limped out. Now there are Necromancers slinking into the swamp to find the body to make a dracolich and the party is tasked to destroy the dragons rotting corpse.
    Can you say dragon zombie?!?!? No breath weapon but still highly dangerous. I just was looking for some answers on how to travel in the swamp or some other ideas. You won my sub. Thank you guys!!!

  • @ttprophet
    @ttprophet 3 роки тому

    I live in the bayou region. I did some boat tours and I can't possibly imagine how uncanny it would be to march in, or canoe in, at night, with no GPS, and no sun screen, and no bug spray.
    The Bayou has been grounds for some amazingly innovative tactics from old IRL wars as well. Demolition of vital bridges to cut supply routes, or circumventing enemy forces by naval insertions. it's a daunting thought to consider dredging thru with no other options to go around. Quite a demoralizing terrain to break the player's spirit.

  • @O4C209
    @O4C209 3 роки тому +1

    That thumbnail got me.

  • @charlesrondeau8220
    @charlesrondeau8220 3 роки тому +1

    Time to make a mimic that is a boat beached along a sodden swamp road.

  • @davidhollowelljr949
    @davidhollowelljr949 3 роки тому +2

    Aight the "Bayou-self" line made me laugh, not gonna lie

  • @schemage2210
    @schemage2210 3 роки тому

    As a DM I have run the giant pelican encounter for my table. Was one of the most memorable encounters of our campaign that just ended :)

  • @duhg599
    @duhg599 3 роки тому

    “Bayou self.” That one took work. Well done.

  • @samuelpierce639
    @samuelpierce639 3 роки тому

    Just in case you have a player like me...
    Marshes are different from bogs and fens, as the latter are fed by precipitation and groundwater, resulting in a completely different plant assemblage.

  • @Droid6689
    @Droid6689 3 роки тому +10

    I'm an avid stamp collector, despite how fetid and monster filled they get

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +3

      We need a line of swamp monster stamps now...

  • @bohemianprince7944
    @bohemianprince7944 3 роки тому +3

    Thanks again my dudes! Happy wednesday :p

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +3

      Never froget a Wednesday, my dudes!

  • @goodbuddy7607
    @goodbuddy7607 2 роки тому

    The bog hag in Legend, Bog of Eternal Stench in Labyrinth

  • @Kaigai_Kaiju
    @Kaigai_Kaiju 3 роки тому

    Had a few sessions in a swampy marshland a few months ago and my players were expecting the usual monster fare but boy were they surprised when the giant crocodile they thought they were going to battle got snatched up by my giant re-skinned Roc, Whooping Crane.

  • @buboniccraig896
    @buboniccraig896 3 роки тому +3

    DM's have an odd obsession with gross locales. I've never once played in a campaign where we didnt go into the sewers or the swamp (or stamp) at least twice.

    • @dicorockhimself
      @dicorockhimself 3 роки тому

      I actually haven't used a swamp yet on my players lol

  • @digunder14
    @digunder14 3 роки тому

    pun power, in that intro XD

  • @GRRAB
    @GRRAB 3 роки тому +1

    It's dangerous to go *bayou self* , take this:

  • @evilscientistrecords
    @evilscientistrecords 3 роки тому

    Fen-tastic video.

  • @wynnefox
    @wynnefox 3 роки тому

    I mean, you go into all this but what about R.O.U.S. in the Fire Swamp?

  • @Elphaba4Change
    @Elphaba4Change 3 роки тому

    We are forgetting the greatest swamp monster ever: kelpies.

  • @logansaxby7224
    @logansaxby7224 3 роки тому +1

    Is Jim ok, he sounds ruff?

  • @danielshaneybrook8962
    @danielshaneybrook8962 3 роки тому

    Bayou self.

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +1

      BAYOU SELF

  • @loki.odinson
    @loki.odinson 3 роки тому +1

    Lizardmen!

  • @ironreed2654
    @ironreed2654 3 роки тому

    I know I didn't hear him call "Artax" "Artion"? Because my childhoods really angry if he did.

  • @Nagasakevideo
    @Nagasakevideo 3 роки тому

    0/5 stars, no shrek joke?

  • @falsenames
    @falsenames 3 роки тому

    The into was so bogged down with all the puns. Time to slough them off before you end up adding moor.

  • @pizzajam
    @pizzajam 3 роки тому +80

    "Listen, lad. I built this kingdom up from nothing. When I started here, all there was was stamp. Other kings said I was daft to build a castle on a stamp, but I built it all the same, just to show 'em. It stuck onto the stamp. So, I built a second one. That stuck onto the stamp. So, I built a third one. That burned down, fell over, then stuck onto the stamp, but the fourth one... stayed up! And that's what you're gonna get, lad: the strongest castle in these islands."

    • @kaseybennett7415
      @kaseybennett7415 2 роки тому +1

      im sorry what

    • @prophetofbeans6781
      @prophetofbeans6781 2 роки тому +4

      @@kaseybennett7415 I think the title used to say "stamp" instead of swamp per their pinned comment about fixing the title. He's also quoting something I've heard before, but i can't remember where it's from

    • @kaseybennett7415
      @kaseybennett7415 2 роки тому +1

      @@prophetofbeans6781 I think I prefer it without context honestly

    • @TheGraphicOz
      @TheGraphicOz 2 роки тому +4

      @@kaseybennett7415 It's a scene from Monty Python and The Holy Grail.

  • @rickthompson3843
    @rickthompson3843 3 роки тому +33

    Pruitt's opening puns are gold. Had me laughing till I couldn't take any moor.

  • @ggggg77273
    @ggggg77273 3 роки тому +45

    I can't wait to collect all the stamps in my game!

    • @dylanba5251
      @dylanba5251 3 роки тому +5

      My DM was just running a Stamp and it sucked the boots right off our feet since it was so sticky

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +17

      Stamp collecting D&D mashup is the hobby all nerds have been waiting for

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +10

      We should have Web DM stamps now.

    • @JohnnyMayHymn
      @JohnnyMayHymn 3 роки тому

      @@WebDM NFTs that look like stamps?

    • @dynamicworlds1
      @dynamicworlds1 3 роки тому

      **gestures to the pull 100% completion has on a lot of people in non-tabletop RPG games**
      Be careful with that wish spell.

  • @anthonynorman7545
    @anthonynorman7545 3 роки тому +31

    Even Pruitt couldn't handle his pun proficiency!

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +9

      Sometimes I'm too much for me, yes.

  • @chitwn9891
    @chitwn9891 3 роки тому +22

    "What are you doing on my stamp?!"

  • @dylanba5251
    @dylanba5251 3 роки тому +23

    People will be so confused with these comments after they fix the title

    • @jacksonskinner7879
      @jacksonskinner7879 3 роки тому +9

      If they wanted clarity, they should have come and hung out in the comments the literal minute the video posted.

    • @anthonynorman7545
      @anthonynorman7545 3 роки тому +5

      Or ring the bell!

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +12

      Surely we can stamp out any confusion if needed.

  • @Vegas242
    @Vegas242 3 роки тому +4

    Click the bell icon if you want to see more of their upload spelling mistakes in the future

  • @acorns-r-us
    @acorns-r-us 3 роки тому +6

    "It's a pain in the ass to get around in"
    *laughs in Fromsoft*

  • @unnefer001
    @unnefer001 3 роки тому +3

    Stamping out a comment for the algorithm.

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому

      Thank you stamp person

  • @brandonwestfall3241
    @brandonwestfall3241 3 роки тому +3

    Inb4 the STAMPede of stamp jokes

  • @asaucedude
    @asaucedude 3 роки тому +5

    Call me Stamp Thing

    • @Nildread
      @Nildread 3 роки тому +1

      Vash the Swampede

  • @bigfatopinions1338
    @bigfatopinions1338 3 роки тому +24

    Yay!!! My favorite terrain to use in DnD. Such a great selection of biodiversity and amazing monsters! So glad to hear y’all’s thoughts!

  • @richardjessiejohnson9108
    @richardjessiejohnson9108 3 роки тому +2

    I got turned on to you guys during possibly the most trying time of my life, and when I couldn’t work, I was on my buddy’s couch, and I would binge watch your channel as a form of necessary escapism. Every time I hear Pruitt intro followed by the drums, I feel relief and gratitude wash over me. It’s silly but I don’t think we’re in charge of how our bodies remember or respond to things. Thanks y’all, from Ca.

  • @troabarton69
    @troabarton69 3 роки тому +4

    I missed the outtakes. Thanks for the video! Now I want to run an encounter with a dire fish named Big Billy Bass

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому

      Do it!!!

  • @CJLloyd
    @CJLloyd 3 роки тому +4

    Stamps! My favourite terrain!

    • @jacksonskinner7879
      @jacksonskinner7879 3 роки тому +1

      They come from the compost office.

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +1

      It's a difficult terrain to lick.

  • @itzybitzyspyder
    @itzybitzyspyder 3 роки тому +5

    A video so good that I had to hit re-peet.

  • @matthewstrong1114
    @matthewstrong1114 3 роки тому +4

    I was always fascinated with the hound of the baskervilles and Sherlock traveling across the moor, very dark and gothic environment.

  • @BlakeFaeMorton
    @BlakeFaeMorton 3 роки тому +3

    So I guess the next videos will be Plains, Islands, and Mountains now. 😛

  • @arkn2357
    @arkn2357 3 роки тому +3

    Don't forget that there are coastal wetlands other than mangrove forests. Make your characters have to navigate a salt marsh and not only do they need to get through grass that can be over their head while trudging through dense mud but they need to contend with a water level that changes with the tide.

  • @tjwblake
    @tjwblake 3 роки тому +2

    Love this video. My whole campaign takes place in a massive swamp/wetland that is populated by the various Dragonborn groups. and it is all on the ruins of an ancient Yuan-ti empire that dots the region itself. It has been fun thinking of travel - there are no beasts of burden in the classical sense instead it has a very venice like feeling with boats of all sizes being the form of travel almost exclusively. It has been a great challenge as a DM to do away with all the classical fantasy tropes in this case..

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому

      Awesome! Glad you like it

  • @charlesswabb3422
    @charlesswabb3422 3 роки тому +3

    How dare you put Artax and atreyu in the thumbnail. I can't cry anymore today.

  • @mathewfrance5165
    @mathewfrance5165 3 роки тому +1

    hey. hey pruitt? yeah, that intro should be illegal. That was an egregious correct misuse of puns. Im proud of the monster you created.

  • @damienfeymont3433
    @damienfeymont3433 3 роки тому +1

    Check out Barrowmaze for a dungeon crawl set in Wetlands

  • @wysegalloway4546
    @wysegalloway4546 3 роки тому +3

    Great episode guys! Jim I love the idea of making the natural wildlife monstrous!

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +1

      Some of it already is! With regards to inspiration...Never take our natural world for granite, unless you're a geologist.

  • @kendonald267
    @kendonald267 3 роки тому +3

    Allll the stamps!!

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому

      #STAMPS4ALL

  • @FlimsyRanger
    @FlimsyRanger 3 роки тому +2

    Am here for the stamps!

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому

      STAMP4ALL!

  • @jose-valentinsera-josef6795
    @jose-valentinsera-josef6795 3 роки тому +3

    Stamps

  • @the_rose_garden01
    @the_rose_garden01 3 роки тому +2

    If every subscriber donates $10, we could fund Grim Hollow today

    • @derekstein6193
      @derekstein6193 3 роки тому

      Grim Hollow is already funded. But if only about 40k followers donated $1, the next stretch goal provided by WebDM would be reached.
      7 days left.

  • @tonyk7000
    @tonyk7000 3 роки тому +1

    In before Stamps get Swamped.

  • @ismirdochegal4804
    @ismirdochegal4804 3 роки тому +1

    Ha! I literally had dire beavers in my last adventure 3weeks ago. Beavers are written 'Biber' in german. So the leader had to be called Justin.

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому

      A true evil overlord, lol!

  • @manicmonarch2608
    @manicmonarch2608 3 роки тому +5

    Ironically, I just read a minecraft Nintendo blurb about swamps on the Switch news. Swamps must be trending.

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +4

      Everyone is mucking about with swamps it seems.

  • @valasafantastic1055
    @valasafantastic1055 3 роки тому

    Look into real paleontology for inspiration alongside modern nature!
    Fun Fact!
    Dire beavers were real!
    Castoroides was a giant extinct bear sized beaver that lived in North America during the Pleistocene! Larger than a human on average! 6.2 - 7.2 ft long, estimated 198 - 276 lbs...
    hmmm. Maybe we shouldn't tell him.
    Nah Paleontology is fun!

  • @jonathankey1533
    @jonathankey1533 2 роки тому +1

    I’m playing a crocodilian in a swampy campaign

  • @AzraelThanatos
    @AzraelThanatos 3 роки тому +1

    While most think of the warm swamps, a cold fen is one of the nastiest hazards that can be thrown at some players if you add in the cold rules as well

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому

      Great point!

  • @Kashanta
    @Kashanta 3 роки тому +1

    One of the things that comes to mind for me is treants. Almost every treant I've seen in a game was in your stereotypical temperate forest. But trees grow in a lot of other environments, so you could have a type of treant in swamp. I think one of the most memorable of these is when, in the Skull & Shackles AP, the party encountered a Palm Tree treant (Palm Treant? ;D ). That campaign was years ago but I still recall that moment because it was different than your bog-standard (pun intended) treant.

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому

      Good idea!!!

  • @noobztvgaming
    @noobztvgaming 2 місяці тому

    Roll say d8 for leech attack attacked to you that can only be removed by local medicine
    Then at random times roll a CON save for leech 1 hit point damage

  • @acorns-r-us
    @acorns-r-us 3 роки тому +1

    This video was released at a perfect time. I was just brainstorming an adventure location and I thought "What if a whole country was a sluice box?"

  • @griffinturner6411
    @griffinturner6411 3 роки тому

    dm: you're traveling through an obscenely humid swamp, roll constitution checks
    Rogue: 8
    Bard: 1
    Barbarian: 25
    dm: Rogue, you're palms are sweaty (knees weak, arms are heavy), make your sleight of hand and thieve's tools checks with disadvantage for the day. Bard, sweat pours out of every pore on your body until you start crying sweat. You smell worse than a sunbathing zombie, so all seduction attempts automatically fail until you take a bath. Barbarian, the magical mud rejuvenates your skin washing way 20 years of blood-soaked wrinkles. You feel full of life and ready to adventure, gain an extra hit die for the day.

  • @junkpunchhero
    @junkpunchhero 3 роки тому +1

    Thanks for confirming that we are in a simulation... Last week, I was looking for non Loot rewards, this week... tips for my group's current location ... of trudging further into wetlands. *sigh* where's that patreon link? .*click*

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому

      Awesome!! Glad we're on the same wavelength.

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому

      Welcome to the party!

  • @eliinthewolverinestate6729
    @eliinthewolverinestate6729 2 роки тому

    Swamps, bogs, and wetlands oh my. The smells of the swamp from sweet to sewage. 110% humidity you can see the tiny drops of water in the air. Predators like to hunt water holes. Hangman's tree is not evil just hungry. That's why my druidic groove is in a swamp. On the north of a ridge it drops to a karst area off a bluff. Down in the swamp the ferns grow over 6 feet tall. You wouldn't know till a creature is 30 feet away. Lots of trees that have fallen over make odd scary shapes at distance. Thimble berries grow in the lowland swamp. My swamp wasn't cut and is still old growth. My druidic groove is based on real area Seney Wildlife refuge. With mammoth and dire bear.

  • @toshomni9478
    @toshomni9478 3 роки тому

    I wanted to stand bayou guys but I can't believe you didn't mention the fire swamp from The Princess Bride. I'll take a R.O.U.S over a mere dire beaver any day.

  • @sofakingwaspinator3306
    @sofakingwaspinator3306 3 роки тому

    I used to watch you guys all the time, until I noticed both of you were eating at the Freebirds I work at, at different times, and for some reason it made me not want to watch your vids anymore. weird right? I can't explain it.

  • @WisdomThumbs
    @WisdomThumbs 3 роки тому

    A black dragon in a bog would make things so damn acidic within five miles. Imagine the venting steam. Just the smell and color would alert seasoned monster hunters, though, so it would make sense for the black dragons to adapt and tone it down depending on the season and surroundings.
    One thing that worked for me was starting a two-shot game with seven players, each playing seven dwarves, and having them create key members of a dwarf colony in a salt marsh. It was just off to the side of a river delta. The players did make key members of that colony’s upper management, and they were instrumental in holding the stone causeway at the gate of the coal mine. They also mined for iron and copper, and traded their many resources for tin and aid from the capital city of Brindeszreen, where Moradin himself was said to rule in person.
    Anyway turned out “Moradin” was a hill giant soaking up demigod powers from all the worship. But a cleric of Moradin among the players, having seen some of the world and the goodness in others, was contacted by the imprisoned Moradin somewhere else. And the real Moradin acted as that player’s Stand, while the players accidentally unleashed an awakened chunk of Arambar in the city of the Poser!Moradin... but that’s all another story for another time. Good time though.

  • @dynamicworlds1
    @dynamicworlds1 3 роки тому +1

    Oh f*! I hadn't considered changing water level due to things like tides!
    Really, I think a good mark of you running wetlands right is players detouring around them and/or being visibly relieved to be out of them and very much appriciate the ideas to help make my wetlands into appropriately difficult locations.

  • @lynnskelton7971
    @lynnskelton7971 3 роки тому

    Wished I had seen this before I created the map of the land the players are exploring and laminated it. Oh well, guess the name change of Dead Willow Marsh to Dead Willow Swamp will have to be placed on top of it. Here is a good link to learn the difference between Swamp and Bayou also... www.askdifference.com/swamp-vs-bayou/

  • @TimberwolfJ1
    @TimberwolfJ1 2 роки тому

    I've got a post apocalyptic game planned where the world experienced a magic nuclear winter, and I cant wait to have my players trudge through a frozen, radiation laced, swamp

  • @restoredtuna8264
    @restoredtuna8264 3 роки тому

    In the world I’m making now there’s a large area in the middle of the game world known as the “Misty Deep” it’s technically both a swamp and marsh depending on where you are in it. The reason this place is so scary and designed to be avoided is that the mist in the swamp is so thick that along with the trees it makes the swamp so dark and humid that creatures from the deep sea often migrate into it, giving a great opportunity to incorporate the most dangerous deep sea creatures into terrestrial gameplay, I think it will be interesting. (Plus I have loads of lore around the place to be found)

  • @alexfrye8637
    @alexfrye8637 3 роки тому +2

    Stamps?

  • @Dead_Heir
    @Dead_Heir Рік тому

    How dare you use that thumbnail. Triggering my childhood PTSD 😆

  • @geoffdewitt6845
    @geoffdewitt6845 3 роки тому +1

    This is the most actionable goddamn terrain content I have come across since I read Stormwrack in 3.5e. Great job, WebDM crew!!!!!

    • @WebDM
      @WebDM  3 роки тому +1

      That's a high compliment! Thank you!

  • @juliustausch7377
    @juliustausch7377 3 роки тому

    I just had a terrible Idea. Put a Trapper under the surface of a swamp, make the party attracted to it's gold and boom. Instant panic.

  • @Military-gradenutella3068
    @Military-gradenutella3068 3 роки тому

    Funny, but horrifying idea: a goose-hydra. The hissing, the weird serrated tongue, the poop...

  • @timkramar9729
    @timkramar9729 3 роки тому

    Quicksand. Alligators, snakes. Non-aggressive birds, insects, what else?

  • @timkramar9729
    @timkramar9729 3 роки тому

    Swamps are probably great for agriculture. Especially given all that peat. Peat burns pretty good too.

  • @atlasace8900
    @atlasace8900 3 роки тому +1

    ARTAX NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

  • @Grimlore82
    @Grimlore82 Рік тому +1

    I miss Pruitt.

  • @Empressofnight
    @Empressofnight 3 роки тому

    As someone who lived in Florida swamps are one of my least favorite places to be both IRL and D&D but one of my favorite to run when DMing

  • @aleksanderk6765
    @aleksanderk6765 3 роки тому +1

    18:40 TIDBITS

  • @nathanhall2012
    @nathanhall2012 3 роки тому

    The beavers you are looking for are real. Look up Castoroides. They were beaver ancestors the size of a bear.

  • @geoffdewitt6845
    @geoffdewitt6845 3 роки тому

    @UA-cam: give these folks more money, dammit!

  • @Bluecho4
    @Bluecho4 3 роки тому

    One concept that so rarely gets play is Swamp Merfolk. Why shouldn't mermaids and mermen inhabit fresh water?
    In my homebrew setting, an undead warlord walked across the sea with an entire army of undead, killing everything he encountered. It got so bad, an entire undersea empire collapsed, and loads of refugees scattered to the four tides. A bunch of them swam upstream into the river systems of this one island nation (fantasy Britain).
    So wherever there's water, you'll find pockets of merfolk hanging out, doing their own thing and mingling with land-dwellers. A bunch of them live in the swamps, marshes, bogs, and fens. Simply because it's a large, wet place to live with loads of food.
    I imagine even freshwater merfolk consider the swamp merfolk to be a little weird. Whereas the saltwater merfolk back out in the sea consider all freshwater merfolk to be terribly uncultured. The yokels living in _literal_ backwater communities, who wallow in mud and know nothing of the great oceanic empires of old.

  • @robertfalse9063
    @robertfalse9063 3 роки тому

    I don't do hot and humid.
    *angry black metal face*

  • @IShallCallHimTaders
    @IShallCallHimTaders 3 роки тому

    Jim sounding a little hoarse, you okay bud?

  • @DaDunge
    @DaDunge 3 роки тому

    9:20 Unfortunately freedom of movement takes that all away.

  • @zorkwhouse8125
    @zorkwhouse8125 3 роки тому

    Pruitt mentioned how creepy real world swamplands etc can be, but then again transferring this environment to the fantasy realm suddenly alligators are not the scariest things you can run into. You mentioned potentially oozes and mummies - and I also think one of the chromatic dragons actually favors swamplands as is habitat (can't remember if its the black or the green dragon, but I think its one of the two) and so if you have a random encounter in a swamp you might be praying to run into something like an alligator, given the alternatives.
    I live in GA, in the southeast US and in the southeast of our state we have the Okefenokee Swamp park that you can visit and they have these things called "swamp tromps" or something along those lines, and its going out with a ranger guide walking through the swamp. Ostensibly on a "trail," but you're climbing over roots and depending on the most recent precipitation you can be walking in water up to your shins in places - and again, like Pruitt said, that can be unnerving enough - but just imagining what all from the D&D world could be crawling/stalking around out there means you could really make this type of environment a major challenge for a party of even experienced PCs from a psychological point of view (giving exhaustion out if they characters don't have optimal forms of transportation or they just don't have a choice and just have to slog it). This could even tie in to the Ravenloft-esque horror focused stuff that D&D is releasing soon - seems like a perfect setting for adventures set beyond the mists.
    Great topic again guys - keep up the good work!

    • @derekstein6193
      @derekstein6193 3 роки тому

      Your reference to the new Von Richten's Guide to Ravenloft in relation to swamps and wetlands makes me want to make a Domain of Dread around the old Universal monster, "The Creature From the Black Lagoon."
      Instead of a dedicated residence like most Darklords, the Creature can just stalk the wetlands within its Domain. Maybe even include a Swamp of Sadness, for... you know... reasons.