Geographic Features

This page is a list of interesting features which can be incorporated into terrain, for when players wish to explore an environment.

• Large rock formations, jutting out from the ground
  • Large, smooth sandstone
  • Archways, enterable underneath
• Battery, Mesa, Plateau
• Bog
  • Spongy ground made of plant matter
• Claypan, flats, salt lakes
• Valley, Vale
• Dens/Lairs
• Downland, Headland
• Fell/Moor - Bare, rocky ground, coarse grass, some alpine trees
• Field, Meadow
  • Rocky/badlands
  • Tall grass, savannah
  • Sell it by describing other plants/objects sprinkled within
• Gardens

• Shore/Beach
  • Can easily apply to rivers, lakes, ponds, you name it.
• Blowhole
• Basin
• Dried river bed
• River, creek,
  • Tight bends vs straight (usually based on land hardness)
• Billabong/Oxbow lake, Lagoon
• Waterfalls, cascades
• Ford, Crossing - particularly shallow/slow running sections of water
• Dam
• Eddy, whirlpool
• Rapids
• Emergent rocks, reefs
• Shoal
• Islands

• Caverns
• Chasms, fissures
• Grotto
• Pit-cave/hole
• Sinkhole

• Capes, Penninsulas
• Cove, Bay
• Delta, river mouth, estuary
• Neck/Isthmus

• Scrubland/Bush, Heath
• Grove
• Glade
• Hollow
• Thicket

• Bog
• Marsh
• Swamp

• Large stone archways between mountainous bodies
• Saddle/Pass - Deep gap between two mountains
• Crag
• Dome/Knoll - particularly rounded hills (esp. isolated)
• Glen - steep valley, often with water feature at bottom
• Gorge, Canyon
• Lookout
• Massif - tightly connected/ridgelike mountains from seismic activity
• Point, Cape

• Wet, muddy ground
• Rocky outcrops, boulders
• Slopes/elevation changes
• Loose ground, including leaf/debris coverage
• Fire-prone conditions
• Manmade structures to assist traversal e.g. bridge, paths
• Frost/sleet
• Insects

https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Forest_Terrain Rules for forest terrain https://www.d20srd.org/srd/wilderness.htm