Not sure if this is the right subreddit, but here goes:
Basically, I'm writing a D&D adventure set in a swamp and I wanted to have bog bodies as enemies for the players.
All the pictures I've seen of them they look extremely dried out and leathery like other kinds of mummies, is that a result of them being taken out of the water? What do they look like when they're still in the water or have only just been removed? Keeping in mind these ones would also not be thousands of years old like a lot of real world bog bodies, they'd be much more recent. My own cursory research said that bodies can mummify in a span of months so these ones are probably years to decades old.
My next question is a bit more "mechanical". If you're unfamiliar, in D&D the regular mummy statblock is definitely supposed to be an Egyptian style mummy, and as such has a vulnerability to fire damage since it's very dry and easily flammable. In the case of a bog mummy, would it make sense in your opinion to remove that weakness given the specific environment of the mummification?
Also, if there's anything else cool about bog bodies I'm missing I'd love to hear it.