My response to the Lewis and Clark thread got me thinking about my post Enemy Within adventure.
I think it will be an adaptation of Paizo's "River of Darkness" with the idea the PC are sent to investigate the Southlands Expedition's path/true fate, perhaps with a secret mission to return a sacred plaque (a high elven loremaster knowing it's actually not a good idea to take those away from the lizard folk, they can get quite determined about recovering them and the increasing activity of their strange masters suggests not provoking them).
Canon information on the Southlands is a little sparse (e.g., lexicarnum's entry pretty much sums it up). It's "fantasy Africa", has greenskins and savage humans, had elf outposts at one point, has skaven (Plaguelords) and of course has lizardmen and Slann isolated from their Lustrian kin and not as numerous but more exotic in some ways.
Unlike Lustria it was not warped by the Slann to be "a jungle deathtrap for invaders", it's just the "regularly deadly jungle" (Africa was pretty rough on European explorers).
Where the Paizo adventure has "savage elves" as the "danger that is also potentially sympathetic, can be negotiated with", I think I will use "savage halflings" (the drums say there will be fresh meat in the pies tonight), and where it has a magically powered steam-paddleboat I think I will simply use a dwarf-engineering paddleboat with dwarf-steam tech.
Has anyone got any particular ideas to suggest, sources to use, critters they have homebrewed or adapted to WFRP3 for jungles etc.?
Edited by valvorik