# Underwater Adventures

**URL:** https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/underwater-adventures/690
**Category:** Inspiration
**Tags:** seafaring, terrain, monsters, adventure
**Created:** [January 12, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/underwater-adventures/690 "2022-01-12T16:02:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![CapKudzu](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgcauldron.com/capkudzu/32/476_2.png) [@CapKudzu](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/CapKudzu)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/underwater-adventures/690/1 "2022-01-12T16:02:35Z")

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I want to fool around with some potions of Water Breathing. What are some good pre-written scenarios \*_or_ original ideas that any of you have, involving at least **1/3 or more of the time under water** (including ocean, lake, marsh, aquarium, subterranean river, or even a crazy elemental plane)?  
This can be fantasy or \*_any_ genre or system. Go!  
🐟 🐠 🐡 😺

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### Author: ![ktrey](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgcauldron.com/ktrey/32/517_2.png) [@ktrey](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/ktrey)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 4:14pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/underwater-adventures/690/2 "2022-01-12T16:14:22Z")

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Some of my Ocean/Swamp Entries in my [Wilderness Hexes](https://blog.d4caltrops.com/2018/03/wilderness-hexes-version-10.html) might lead in this direction (especially with things like **The Brine Queen** ’s persistent presence) or be useful as inspiration.

For published things, there’s also _PC: 3 The Sea People_ for Basic which if I recall has quite a few Underwater Adventures in the “Adventure Book.”

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### Author: ![GusL](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgcauldron.com/gusl/32/368_2.png) [@GusL](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/GusL)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 6:13pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/underwater-adventures/690/3 "2022-01-12T18:13:49Z")

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Honestly, I’ve never seen anything good?

I suspect in some ways it’s a difficulty with 3d space in classic rpgs and location based adventure design. The break/paths between vertical level began as more important as a liminal rupture and difficulty gauge then a spaital relationship. I think this idea persists in a lot of RPGs - a sort of ludic DNA.

Plus a lack of effective rules to model pressure, swimming, drowning, and such. Heck, even space games don’t really do well with exploring in the vacuum.

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### Author: ![bradkerr](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgcauldron.com/bradkerr/32/84_2.png) [@bradkerr](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/bradkerr)
#### Post date: [January 12, 2022, 7:04pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/underwater-adventures/690/4 "2022-01-12T19:04:50Z")

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Knight Owl Publishing (Meatlandia, “Scourge of the Scornlords”) has been teasing an underwater OSE supplement on their [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/knightowlpublishing/). I believe a Kickstarter is coming in April. I love that eel medusa!

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### Author: ![Cosmic-Orrery](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgcauldron.com/cosmic-orrery/32/63_2.png) [@Cosmic-Orrery](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/Cosmic-Orrery)
#### Post date: [January 13, 2022, 2:24pm UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/underwater-adventures/690/5 "2022-01-13T14:24:13Z")

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This ones a bit abyssal so maybe not totally appropriate unless you have a portal, but a city of hagfish witches built into a massive leviathan sized whalefall. Your mission is to dodge the sentry-crabs, negotiate with the scavenger cephalopods and break into the hagfish witches sanctum to steal MAGIC THING from them.

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### Author: ![DreamingDragonslayer](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/user_avatar/discourse.rpgcauldron.com/dreamingdragonslayer/32/159_2.png) [@DreamingDragonslayer](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/u/DreamingDragonslayer)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2022, 2:01am UTC](https://discourse.rpgcauldron.com/t/underwater-adventures/690/6 "2022-01-27T02:01:54Z")

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[Bones Deep creator put together a list of these.](https://www.technicalgrimoire.com/david/2022/01/underwaterrpgs)
