Talk:Swamp of Wydmoor

Corrected, polished. Good work. I like it. -gm

Make any relevant corrections. I took a lot of liberties with the history and filled in a number of gaps with shit I made up, in particular. Also, while researching this, I noticed a connection between LE's ring of the turtle priest, the golden turtle flags in Al's eagle vision, and the dragon turtle temple guardians. Not sure if I am late to the party on this one, or if we all missed this. Was the turtle a symbol of one of the Demi-pantheon? Is there any background on the turtle imagery that we are privy to? --Msallen

I'm betting that no one bothered to notice this because it did not impact loot acquisition activities. *sigh* All of these things are connected, yes. TURTLES! -gm

Well thanks to Germ consider us noticing. Perhaps we can find some halfling carny crone to tell us about turtles and read our fortune. Germ would probably be quite good a smooth-talking the freaks, and we have a lot of crazy info about the swamp that few are privy to for trade. Mose might have to grow a pair and hang out with some evil people for a few hours more! --Msallen

Well, Road Halflings tend to be more Crone-laden than the boat halflings, who tend to be a little more mainstream, orderly, and orders of magnitude less offputting. Of course, when we resume play, the party is on the Alexian side of the swamp near a temporary Hand encampment. The Hand are positively overflowing with creepy old crones, strange menageries, and all the other weirdo carny stuff. -gm

Marrwyn created the swamp during the prophets' war, right? --146.127.253.45

Yes. It doesn't say that in the text?

I italicized because I wasn't sure. --Msallen

Natural Resources in a Swamp

Natural iron-rich water seepages can form actual ingot that looks crazy and resists ruts when it's made into goods. Also, cursed bog iron has a nice ring as a material for magic item creation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog_iron

You know what's funny about item materials? There is no way to overcome Silver/1 DR. -Slitherrr

What?

1/Silver DR means 1 damage is reduced from any non-Silver weapon. Any weapon made of silver is -1 to damage. Ergo, 1/Silver DR is effectively 1/- DR. I don't know any monsters with only 1/Silver DR, but it's still funny. -70.188.41.34

I worry about you. -gm

Also, minimum damage is always one. -gm

Of course it is. How is that related?-Slitherrr

I didnt realize this, but peat is an early stage in the transition between biomass and coal. Also, it has great insulating properties and has a number of agricultural uses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peat

Fun AND educational.