• Creed of the Trickster. Change the name (also URL address, possibly the category) of the page. The Coastal Merfolk are an aquatic race that has populated many of the world’s oceans. Merfolk have the same variety of backgrounds as surface humans. You have a swim speed of 30 feet. Most settings portray merfolk as primitive tribals which i think is boring. They live considerably longer than humans, though, often reaching well over 100 years. no i found them on deviant art.
Merfolk, like humans, tend toward no particular alignment.
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Sahuagin and merfolk clash frequently, and sahuagin have been known to destroy entire merfolk colonies, taking the few survivors as prisoners.
Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Basically: with this race available, the only reason someone would play one of the PHB races would be for flavor (or maybe for Human because they had multiple 15's or 17's they wanted to leverage with the global +1). You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of grey.Slippery. I loved it so much I wanted to repost it for all you mer-fans out there.
You have advantage on Dexterity (Acrobatics) checks against being grappled and saving throws to avoid being restrained.Languages. Close. I see no shenaniganry. • Subrace. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts. Your base walking speed is 30 feet. Your base walking speed is 10 feet. Underwater combat does not impose any penalties or disadvantages on movement or weapon attacks. New comments cannot be posted and votes cannot be cast, More posts from the UnearthedArcana community. Hobgoblins mature at the same rate as humans and have lifespans similar in length to theirs. Publishing!! The standing merfolk built semi-permanent villages and settlements around the shores and in the water, usually around reefs. Unearthed Arcana 2020: Subclasses, Part Five Breakdown, How to: Time traveling in RPGs - Timeline Changing, Storm Edge Campaign Setting 17: Gods of Eight Isles ‐ Part 3.
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You know one cantrip of your choice from the bard spell list spell list. Your base walking speed is 10 feet and you are always considered prone.
Much of their art, and tools incorporate a hodgepodge of materials and wooden parts are usually exchanged for shell, coral, or stone. Languages.
You can speak, read, and write Common (if it exists in your campaign), Merfolk and one additional language of your choice. New 5e Player Race: Merfolk Fluff: Merfolk live in large extended families in and around cool, flowing bodies of water. You can breath both air and water.
• Ability Score Increase. -Jhiri of the Blue Gills Tribe. Age. Society: The Merfolk are an optimistic people, who approach life with vigorous gusto. Cookies help us deliver our Services. Posted by 3 years ago. [This mechanic parallels my previous article on alternate human subraces that you can find at www.gameschangelives.com.]. Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1.Age. In this form lose your swim speed and follow all the normal rules for swimming. Don't humans get the optional Feat + 1 to any 2 ability scores? Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 License.
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Without this item you may not use your shapechanging abilities to assume your merfolk form until it is retrieved.
I didn’t want to parallel humans that closely, instead making the merfolk something different and interesting. Also known as “standing merfolk” or “shallows merfolk,” this is a species of merfolk that have developed the legs and bone structure that allows them to walk on the land as well as swim through the water.
You can attempt to hide even when you are only lightly obscured by foliage, heavy rain, falling snow, mist, and other natural phenomena. Tribality Publishing is now producing titles so that you can use our ideas directly into your games. But in the wake of the reappearance of the Eldrazi, the merfolk have realized that their faith was a web of lies, built on a corrupted memory of the Eldrazi titans handed down from generation to generation. Advantage on saves against cold. Keen senses. Ability Score Increase. While underwater you have darkvision, you can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. Watch D&D Live 2020: Roll w/ Advantage Today in Support of ... Gen Con 2020 Cancelled - Gen Con Online Announced, Nerdarchy - Out of the Box: Encounters for 5th Edition - Review, Mythic Odysseys of Theros Breakdown, Part Two, Mythic Odysseys of Theros Breakdown, Part One, Strongholds & Followers Breakdown, Part Four, Strongholds & Followers Breakdown, Part Three, Storm Edge Campaign Setting 16: Gods of Eight Isles ‐ Part 2, Storm Edge Campaign Setting 15: Gods of Eight Isles ‐ Part 1. Your size is Medium.Speed. Ability Score Increase. "The land will no longer be our border, it will be our frontier." • The Creed of Wind. Long fins extend from the backs of their forearms and calves, and their fingers and toes are webbed. I have created a draft No.
Any wood they collect is carefully treated and waterproofed before it is used by the merfolk. Size. They have a cosmopolitan and mercantile society and most Coastal Merfolk are competent tradesmen.