The family has been watching Planet Earth on DVD in an effort to recreate some of the "Mutual of Omaha's Wild...


The family has been watching Planet Earth on DVD in an effort to recreate some of the "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom" feelings of our childhood. We just watched the "Caves" episode. Possibly the most disgusting things I've ever seen on TV were in that episode, and things that will make me never look at caves in D&D the same again.

Gomantong Cave in Malaysia is gigantic. Like really, really, big. So many bats live here that there is a pile of guano 100 feet high inside. And this guano pile? Covered in millions of cockroaches

Put that in your next dungeon.

Also home to swifts whose nests are used to make bird's nest soup. The nests are hardened bird saliva. People eat that. Nest gatherers climb 80 meters up rope and ratan ladders to harvest the nests. Imagine a fight on something like that.

To sum up: Nature is horrifying.

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

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  1. Jason BeighelFebruary 22, 2013 at 5:29 PM

    Like the worms that suspend strings of, well, natural christmas lights to lure in prey.  I could imagine the glints from that luring in more than a few adventurers as well.

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