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A giant, but for swamps. Not much more to say, except that the book disrespects them hard : "They are ugly, disgusting creatures, with mottled froglike skin and long, stringy black hair.". The books seldom straight up calls a creature "ugly", while here it doubles down by throwing a "disgusting" at it, which is uncalled for for a kappa-looking giant like the bog giant.
Right?! Bad WotC! BAD!

The Bog Giant has very similar stats to a Hill Giant (+14 Str, +0 Dex, +8 Con, -4 Int, +0 Wis, +4 Cha, +7 NA. Compared to a Hill Giant : +2 Dex, +8 Cha, -2 NA) and the same lack of ability, with only a 40ft swim speed and the ability to breathe underwater (but only a 30ft land speed). Don't be fooled by the fact that it is written as having a Huge Longspear, it's actually a typo and the damage is that of a Large Longspear. More Cha but no innate way to make use of it does not really balance having a slower land speed. Same ting as Hill, 6 RHD, and DLA -1 with its whole 8 RHD.
It's interesting how the original RLA assessment apparently made a mixup between HD and CR an rated them as though they were 6 HD and still gave 'em a -0. (It's also interesting how WotC thought Rock Throwing is a good fit for an aquatic (and Aquatic) swamp-dweller, but that's par for course, I suppose.)

Merry Christmas to all !
And to you as well, if somewhat, khm, belatedly!