Johan-swamp Stuff

[Xietor]

I wish i had a photo of the 19' gator on display at our(Louisiana) Dept. Natural Resources. It actually defies logic it is so big.

Did find a picture of a much smaller, but still big, 13' gator.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/wcgator.asp

Here is a picture of a 12-13 foot gator swimming with a deer in his mouth. Size was estimated, as no one went down to measure him.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals...deer.asp#photo

[Valandil]

Saltwater Crocodile

I always liked this picture.

[Xietor]

Nice Picture, but we are proffering potential MA Ctis sacred units.

We need things that live in Swamps!

[Valandil]

Hm. True.
Something Chameleonic might be interesting, more from a creator's perspective than a gameplay one. Also, I always wondered why there were no Poison-Arrow-Frog Archers (Although they don't really suit C'tis). There is also a conspicuous lack of tongue attacks.

[Xietor]

Well,

I live in a swamp. New Orleans is the miasma brought to life, including a dire history of disease affiliated with humans living in swamps.

"The population of New Orleans also suffered from epidemics of yellow fever, malaria, and smallpox, which would periodically return throughout the 19th century until the successful suppression of the city's final outbreak of yellow fever in 1905."

From the perspective of someone who has lived in MA Ctis dominion since 1982, I think the lizards are great. But the White Alligator would be really really cool. And though they are nasty, nutria are a part of the miasma swamps that are Louisiana.

[HoneyBadger]

The Nile croc is the largest in the world-it's estimated that they could get up to 30 feet long, potentially. That's dragon-sized.

Are there Will O' The Whisps in the game?

I'd like to see more done with bog mummies-and specifically Jotun-sized bog mummies, since there's real-world evidence of actual giant (6'6 +) redheaded humanoids living in prehistoric times, or possibly more recently, and ending up in swamps.

A nation of Jotunesque bog-mummies would be awesome.

Were-boars or a race of humanoid boars would make for cool swamp monsters.

Lots of fish and salamanders live in swamps-real life salamanders in Asia get up to 6 feet long. And there's urban legends about catfish growing to the size of a bus!

Good inspiration for aboleths, so maybe there's a less intelligent, but still dangerous, amphibious version?

How about Swamp Thing? Not only do the comics provide lots of monstrous inspiration, but it'd be cool to have, say, an independent heroic, stronger and more intelligent version of a Vine Ogre, with lots of Nature magic, named "Swamp King", performing basically the same function as Bogus, only for nature-related events.

When talking about albino crocs, don't forget the urban legends about albino crocodiles living in the sewers of New York.

Hippos are very dangerous, but I'm pretty sure that they wouldn't stand a chance against a full grown bull African elephant. For that matter, the Ratel, or "Honeybadger", is considered, pound-for-pound, the most dangerous mammal in Africa.

[Valandil]

"How about Swamp Thing? Not only do the comics provide lots of monstrous inspiration, but it'd be cool to have, say, an independent heroic, stronger and more intelligent version of a Vine Ogre, with lots of Nature magic, named "Swamp King", performing basically the same function as Bogus, only for nature-related events"

There is. He's called Intor Vadul the ancient presence.

[HoneyBadger]

I don't think that's quite the same thing. Along the same general lines, maybe, but in a game this big, there's nothing wrong with similar themes embodied in different ways.

[Valandil]

Fair eough, yes. And its not like randoms occur often enough that anyone would notice, really.

[HoneyBadger]

I was thinking maybe a high Prod scale combined maybe with high Drain (and high misfortune, ofcourse) would cause the "Swamp King" to appear with, say, half a dozen to a dozen of the better Crossbreeding units.

Now that I think about it, one could assume swamps would make an excellent home *for* crossbreeding units which escape into the wild.