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185 descriptions bring the mystery and challenge of swamps to your game!

"Into the Swamp" provides colorful descriptions to make swamps come alive in your players’ minds. It provides short "bits" of description and detailed settings that could be used to describe nearly any fantasy swamp, regardless of the system. This is created to be an "on the go" product, which means you don’t need to read the entire work before you can use it. The descriptions are designed so that they can be randomly generated as you play or placed carefully ahead of time. It is written to be of use to both experienced and inexperienced Game Masters, particularly those who (for whatever reason) find themselves short on time or creativity.

This book includes 100 Bits of description, small pieces that can be stuck in anywhere a little description is needed, and numbered so they can be used randomly. Each Bit is also provided in index card format for ease of use by Game Masters. In addition, there are 86 other descriptions that may depict a particular place (island, dock) or describe the seasons or weather.

The material is indexed a number of ways to allow a GM to easily find a description to fit a particular circumstance. Several descriptions are graphically depicted in the excellent interior art by Gillian Pearce (Hellion).

Also included is a swamp setting with a mini-adventure, written especially for this book by Darren “Wolf” Pearce. It provides detailed narration for use by the GM, and advice on how to use a swamp in your game.

In addition, we are pleased to feature an article that looks at how to make swamps in your game realistic and utilize all their fascinating complexities on your players. Written by Professor of Biology (and long-time gamer) K. H. Keeler, the article includes “Swamp Kits,” quick and easy sets of information on the plants and animals common to various types of swamps.

This is part of the "Harried Game Master" line of products, providing the materials we've always wished to have. Augment your imagination with products from Tabletop Adventures!

69 pages plus index cards; 87 pages total.

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January 12th, 2009
I found this product to be extremely useful. It doesn't really matter what genre you play, a swamp is a swamp :) It is a simple matter to swap out a fantasy element to add a sci-fi or science-fantasy element. The details on types of swamps, gass [...]
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November 21st, 2006
This book is great it really adds a lot to encounters and traveling about in swamps. It gave me a few ideas I never considered at all before and the use of descriptive langage is a certainyl a notch above the average I can whip up while runnign on the [...]
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February 17th, 2006
Great atmospheric passages and quick and easy encounter inserts. <br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: The atmosphere was something I was struggling with, so thats good, also the inserts are nice brief 'wandering monster' type encounters that [...]
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January 12th, 2006
Each one of these bits books has made its way into my campaign. This was the latest one and it came right on time as my party was venturing through a swampy section of the world. The thing that gets me about these products is that the writing is alwa [...]
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November 11th, 2005
Simply a very useful product for those who are using wetlands as either a setting or simply a location within a setting. The sections on insects interested me a great deal since that aspect is usually glossed over in other wilderness products that feat [...]
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