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someone on /tg/ once worked out since that merfolk have a movement penalty when on land, if you get the right class/feats you can get some decent speed even out of the water.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 14:50:25 No.43278471 Report Delete

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>>43277470

Just give them a decent land speed. In d20 based games, I give them 20'. Problem solved.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 14:56:15 No.43278580 Report Delete

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>>43277935
In a way Sahauqin are worse off. Merfolk can actually survive on land, just with a slow movement penalty. Sahuaqin on the other hand start to suffocate when out of water.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 15:10:39 No.43278877 Report Delete

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>>43277470
In a previous thread, someone suggested creating a mermaid explorer out to chart the land, riding around in a Nightmare-Before-Christmas-style animated bathtub. This is now my favorite mermaid PC idea.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 15:11:23 No.43278892 Report Delete

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>>43277470
Kill yourself, OP

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 15:14:44 No.43278966 Report Delete

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Merfolk can have legs, take Zendicari ones for example

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 15:16:46 No.43279007 Report Delete

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This is actually kind of amusing. In Pathfinder, merfolk have a land speed of 5 and a swim of 50, but have an alt race trait that gets them 15 land and 30 swim.

Because of their absolutely godlike stat bonuses and natural armor (and because I had little time) I made a Mermaid Metal Oracle. She is sort of a utility heavy tank, but by the gods is her AC high.
The way I deal with it is having her more or less obsessively cast Create Water everywhere, and also carry around a portable bathtub that she uses for a bed.

She's an enjoyable character.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 15:18:15 No.43279050 Report Delete

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>>43277470
Mermonk

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 15:26:41 No.43279237 Report Delete

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Relevant.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 15:34:33 No.43279394 Report Delete

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>>43277470
Underwater/ocean campaign
Merfolk is aquaman style with legs
Another PC plays a summoned water elemental

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 16:02:09 No.43279934 Report Delete

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Magical transformation and/or mechanical legs.

Alternatively, the entire campaign could take place on a ship.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 17:15:34 No.43281314 Report Delete

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Just go like Irenes from Chrono Cross and float an inch over the ground on a nimbus of magical bubbles.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 18:13:56 No.43282538 Report Delete

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>>43277470
Have them be like the Naga from Warcraft.

Instead of fish, sea-snakes who can slither on land just fine.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 19:59:15 No.43284871 Report Delete

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>>43279394
>Another PC plays a summoned water elemental
Shota merman and MILF elemental?

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 20:07:08 No.43285079 Report Delete

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>>43277470
If you have a setting with frequent seafaring or one that takes place underwater.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 20:15:09 No.43285243 Report Delete

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>>43277470
Alternatively, a merperson PC would be possible in a high-powered game like Nobilis, or any other setting where they can just float water around with them.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 20:16:52 No.43285278 Report Delete

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In an underwater campaign

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 20:19:28 No.43285342 Report Delete

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>>43277727
this is probably the best answer in the thread. Add a lot of canals and such and you've got it

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 20:33:01 No.43285697 Report Delete

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I remember seeing a webcomic once where there was a mermaid who had normal legs but had some kind of mucous or film that let her link her legs underwater. I'll see if I can find a pic or something

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 20:33:39 No.43285708 Report Delete

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>>43278230
...does that say 'Wooper' on the nametag?

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 20:36:07 No.43285768 Report Delete

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>>43278966
Talrand's from Shandalar, actually, though same principle applies there - and to basically all merfolk beyond those of Lorwyn (even the Dominarian ones are capable of shifting their tails into legs, it's just not their natural state like Shandilarian/Zendikari/Therosian/Ravnican merfolk)

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 20:38:40 No.43285835 Report Delete

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>>43285697
Oh hey I found it.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 22:10:27 No.43288055 Report Delete

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>>43285835
Huh, neat
Name of comic?

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 22:21:45 No.43288357 Report Delete

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>>43279007
I had a mermaid cleric, that did pretty much that, she, fortunately had enough gold for a decanter of endless water, so she didn't have to use standard actions all the time.

The DM also let me grab the "Landwalking ring" from D&D 3.5's stormwrack book, which is about adventuring on/in the ocean but has suprisingly little to do about merfolk in general.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 22:54:12 No.43289255 Report Delete

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>>43288055
Thermohalia. From what I understand it's basically dropped though

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 22:57:54 No.43289352 Report Delete

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Merfolk Aegis. High flying speed.

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Anonymous Sun 25 Oct 2015 23:04:37 No.43289551 Report Delete

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>>43284871
>>/d/
>>/ss/

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 00:02:50 No.43291135 Report Delete

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>>43285342
Thank you for reminding me, my historical fantasy needed merfolk somewhere.

Venice's gonna get allot of merfolk rouges all of a sudden.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 00:09:34 No.43291307 Report Delete

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>>43291135
Venice bothered me because isn't it just one giant sewer? That would suck for merfolk.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 00:16:49 No.43291467 Report Delete

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>>43291307
the hell is that

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 00:19:09 No.43291527 Report Delete

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>>43291307
Fair enough.
>>43291467
A shrimp scuba diver.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 00:33:31 No.43291890 Report Delete

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>>43291527
A player brought that up to me once when I made a city that was half underwater, for aquatic races like merfolk. The solution I had, was, besides an overabundance of bottom feeders (the city was filled with crabs, urchins and corals), there was a group of people and merpeople who basically just dredged parts of the city and forced current flow through to expel waste out into nets/containers where they would ship it off elsewhere to be dumped.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 00:44:20 No.43292109 Report Delete

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>>43291890
Well the thing is that Venice us just a set piece, I try to explain major cities and places and what's going on.
Big adventure is Vlad Tepes takes a magical artifact from raiding ottomanturks that causes a whole mess of problems in Romania.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 00:54:59 No.43292287 Report Delete

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>>43292109
Eh, if anything you could have the merfolk trading a lot in Venice, bringing in stuff from the sea. And or just lounging around on the piers by the canals, and being nuances.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:49:16 No.43293291 Report Delete

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>>43285708
I think it says "Kooper"?

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:55:53 No.43293421 Report Delete

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Playing in a One Piece game with a Mermaid sniper.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 01:59:12 No.43293482 Report Delete

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>>43291307
Make them catfish that like dirty water.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 07:38:28 No.43294868 Report Delete

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>>43285342
Or a semi-flooded city.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 07:40:53 No.43294888 Report Delete

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Like this

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 08:06:42 No.43295054 Report Delete

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Any civilization that has enough Merfolk/Human contact must have sufficiently advanced means (magical or technological) to trade, war, and fuck them. It's the Law of Fantastic Humanity.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 08:22:40 No.43295164 Report Delete

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>>43277470
they could be an eel merfolk, turning into a lamia/naga/genericsnakepeople basically.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 08:37:58 No.43295242 Report Delete

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Merfolk a shit

Adaro master race.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 08:40:12 No.43295263 Report Delete

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>>43277470
Probably best left to oceanic campaigns. Although in DnD at least I think merfolk can survive on land; they just have a terrible movement speed. PF has a variant that trades some swim speed for decent movement speed.

Incidentally, I wish more people would do oceanic campaigns, especially ones focusing on undersea exploration. Would give me an excuse to use my extensive knowledge of oceanography and marine biology.
...I should try making that custom aquanaut class sometime. Although while I did write a custom race for DnD despite not having any actual experience with the system, I doubt I would be able to write a complete class.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 13:01:11 No.43297416 Report Delete

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>>43295263
>should try making that custom aquanaut class sometime. Although while I did write a custom race for DnD despite not having any actual experience with the system, I doubt I would be able to write a complete class.
Probably should make more than one for different roles

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 13:16:59 No.43297633 Report Delete

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For a while now I've wanted to play a mermaid who has to ride or hop around in a magical barrel full of water.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 13:46:52 No.43297974 Report Delete

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I like the idea of a town that actually extends itself into the water so you have houses for it's merfolk citizens as well as having canals and special tunnels so they can swim up to enterances for resturants and shops as well

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 14:07:44 No.43298260 Report Delete

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>>43277470
http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/SRD:Merfolk

Judging from your 5ft land speed, you'd be extremely slow on the ground so a water or pirate campaign would be ideal.

Buy one of these if it's a land setting.

Ring of landwalking: Brass ring with fish scale pattern. Aquatic Humanoid or Monstrous Humanoid wearers gain legs & feet, lose their swim speed, and gain land speed of 30’. Air Breathing, always on. 10,000gp

If you can't afford that have a spell caster cast fins to feet on your character. http://dndtools.pw/spells/stormwrack--87/fins-to-feet--3359/

Other than that stick with a high water campaign.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 14:16:43 No.43298373 Report Delete

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>>43277470
they dont

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 14:19:14 No.43298406 Report Delete

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>>43277470
They travel around on land in huge aquariums on wheels, more or less a wagon with a big, glass box filled with water.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 14:19:28 No.43298410 Report Delete

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Just do it like Splash, they grow legs when dry, but as soon as they get water on them they change into a tail. This means you can give them movement penalties on land while tailed and have scenarios where they're dependant on other PCs without it getting too old.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 14:57:14 No.43298955 Report Delete

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>>43279007

My DM and I agreed on adding some homebrew tuff to Merfolk, to help balance out their amazing statline.

All we added was that they need to be submersed in water at least 8 hours of the day (Doesn't have to be consecutive), or else they start to dry out and take penalties. And that they are always prone on land,without assistance (unless they take that pathfinder alt racial trait).

It locks them into campaigns that have lots of water in them, but then again merfolk don't normally go to the desert.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 15:18:27 No.43299209 Report Delete

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>>43277470
Have the PC control the tides in a way to allow them to 'swim' through air.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 16:18:50 No.43300096 Report Delete

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>>43298410
>in the middle of combat
>it starts to fucking rain
>merfolk PC is stuck with slithering all of a sudden
I kinda like this.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 18:39:15 No.43302213 Report Delete

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>>43299209
I'm not sure tides work that way

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 18:50:02 No.43302366 Report Delete

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>>43302213
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd_Sz59QTVk

Works for her.
>in B4 DOTA2 is better

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 19:06:01 No.43302625 Report Delete

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>>43295263

I am doing just that in my current game. lifted the setting from the ending of an old /tg/ quest a few years ago.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 19:59:25 No.43303424 Report Delete

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>merfolk thread
>no oddly attractive fishman posted

I'm ashamed of you all.

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 20:00:29 No.43303443 Report Delete

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>>43303424

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 20:01:29 No.43303458 Report Delete

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>>43303443

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 20:08:44 No.43303605 Report Delete

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>>43303458

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 20:09:44 No.43303622 Report Delete

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>>43303605

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 20:43:10 No.43304297 Report Delete

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>>43277470

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 21:23:05 No.43304971 Report Delete

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>>43292109
Did he find one of the twelve legendary Slav artifacts?

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Anonymous Mon 26 Oct 2015 21:31:42 No.43305122 Report Delete

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>>43291135
>>43291307
It's Whovian shit, but still. "Vampiric" fish-aliens living in Venice:

>http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Saturnyn

>>43281314
I was totally gonna come in here and suggest Irenes.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 00:17:55 No.43307614 Report Delete

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>>43303424
>no oddly attractive fishman
I wouldn't really call that attractive, it's not unattractive true, but it's not attractive either

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 00:48:18 No.43307960 Report Delete

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>>43278230
Judging by the sunlight present, the fact that coral has grown, and the merperson's lack of gills (presumably it breathes like a dolphin), the sub is less than 100 meters deep.

Break the sub open and ferry the human to the surface. She'll get the bends, but she'll live.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 01:32:49 No.43308422 Report Delete

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>>43304971
an artifact that turns him into a vampire.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 02:21:37 No.43308874 Report Delete

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>>43277470
We had a psionic merman in our game who road on his horse whom he communicated with telepathically.

EVERYWHERE.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 02:37:33 No.43309064 Report Delete

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>>43308874
How did he stay on it?

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 03:43:04 No.43309604 Report Delete

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>>43304297
I think you missed the point, anon.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 04:55:48 No.43310047 Report Delete

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>>43302366
Truly, there is none cuter than Nami.

Best Champ
Best Art
Best Mermaid

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 04:57:09 No.43310053 Report Delete

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>>43310047
That shits white red

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 04:59:25 No.43310065 Report Delete

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>>43310053
Tell that to the one that made the edit. I just love how she looks as a planeswalker card.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 05:04:15 No.43310093 Report Delete

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>>43277470
By being cursed to have legs, they're on a quest to get their tail back damnit

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 05:43:23 No.43310314 Report Delete

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>>43295263
Considering one of my players is currently a merfolk who is playing around in a land based campaign,in the fucking desert no less, im generous with my bullshit, this is very correct. The feat strong tailed is the one that gives you a 15 foot move speed with a 30 foot water speed, (but i think that's dumb so i gave him 15 and 50 respectively).

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 11:18:22 No.43313012 Report Delete

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>>43277470
Like >>43277492 said,

I have a player I explicitly told we would likely not be going near water in any amount of regularity. He decided to make a merfolk who is dragged around in a wheelbarrow/bath by some guy he hired.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 11:33:53 No.43313213 Report Delete

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>>43309064
He's tied to it?

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 14:24:41 No.43315497 Report Delete

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>>43277470
Post more merboy pics

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 16:36:48 No.43317554 Report Delete

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>>43277470
Ocean campaign

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 17:14:15 No.43318136 Report Delete

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>>43309604
I agree. We're here to argue, not get along!

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 17:23:54 No.43318297 Report Delete

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>>43318136
not quite on either count. we're here to have a discussion with no real conclusion, as it is a simple swapping of preferences and ideas, to be dropped into and out of at the convenience of whoever.

at least when great lord captcha allows us the privilege of posting.

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 19:38:49 No.43320786 Report Delete

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>>43318297
>not quite on either count. we're here to have a discussion with no real conclusion, as it is a simple swapping of preferences and ideas, to be dropped into and out of at the convenience of whoever.
I disagree

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Anonymous Tue 27 Oct 2015 20:31:06 No.43321850 Report Delete

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>>43307960
>She'll get the bends, but she'll live.
I know this is almost a day old, but I feel the need to point out that Decompression Sickness can be fatal. While it's certainly a better option than letting her drown, she may still die.

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