Wandering Monsters:
Poisonous Snakes
Stirges
Bullywugs
Trolls
Mud Mephits
Giant Crocodile
Wights
Will-o'-wisps
Ghouls
Winged Kobolds
Young Black Dragon
These are all good options to be used throughout the swamp. I've just randomly chosen several from the DMGs swamp monster list. It isn't meant to be thorough and exhaustive... it's just laziness and convenience. The point is that these are meant to be casual encounters with natural creatures in their environment. Sometimes they are small critters, and sometimes they are powerful creatures. These are suggestions for quick reference.
The monster that will grab careless adventurers in the night should be a shambling mound. It isn't really a slime, but it acts in the way I'm imagining, something that blends in completely with the surrounding backdrop, then lashes out at unsuspecting creatures that come within its reach. I would like to have some kind of slime creature (I'm picturing the watcher in the water outside Moria's gates), with lots of tentacles and no sense of size. There must be one somewhere, or something to adapt, but I haven't found it yet.
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