I want a playable merfolk D&D race (so I made one)

TO BE CLEAR (since our jokes apparently confused people!) this race is NOT gendered! Just wanted to make sure there were subraces with lots of different ~vibes~. 🐙 Check out the KRAKEN WEEK playlist: youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsmjZYZs1ps3EB_GuzXKEEQ… 🧜🏻‍♀ Download the MERFOLK race: drive.google.com/file/d/17rUHwWYWW5DcSb-n_Uup2UGSF…

I am a completely straight, cis male, and even I want to be a mermaid because being able to live underwater is cool and they're pretty

Gotta be honest, the official stat block for the D&D wheelchair, made me want to play a merfolk who refuses to transform their tail into legs.

Honestly, as a disabled ttrpg player, the idea of a mermaid traversing the land in a wheelchair or something similar is very fun to me. Happy disability pride month everyone ❤

The lore implications of the Ginny Di universe when we learn Pointy Hat just... LIVES IN HER CLOSET, APPARENTLY.

“Mermaids: for men” sounds like a 3 in 1 conditioner, and I love it.

🎶she's death and she's doom, she lives in you bathroom. Mermaid giiiiirlfriend🎵

ginny: why cant i play a mermaid triton: am i a joke to you yes, yes you are

Mermaid with tail. Giant fishbowl. "Levitate" as a free cantrip. BOOM!

"What kind of merfolk would men like?" Ripjaws from ben 10. Tidal Merfolk works alright for this

The PointyHat portion was perfectly interrupted with an ad featuring Jeff Goldblum, and I honestly didn't catch that it was an ad for an embarrassing amount of time

Ngl, I love going by flavor of Luca. There's no downsides to being out of water, but the fish traits go away when they are dry and they look like humans until they get water dumped on them again. Sure, people know about them but if a specific merfolk that wants to blend in, that's a perfect way... just they also have a tail to swim with this.

Pathfinder 2E recently added an official Merfolk ancestry (race in d&d), with several heritage (subrace) options, and they established that the existing wheelchair rules can be used to let them up onto land.

I... suddenly am gripped with a desire to be a pretty green-haired steampunk siren artificer with her own custom-built motorbike! (And a ring of free action. Hey, it removes "can't swim" penalties for two-legs underwater, it should remove disadvantage for "not actually legs" on land!) Vrrrrm... vrrrm. And then thank the GM for putting up with me building a... mechanic pixie dream mergirl.

This is really cool. I think I’d consider making the water breathing ability give characters a 30 foot swim speed, or an increase of +30 feet if they already had a swim speed though. This means that your triton party member will like you for buffing his preexisting swim speed, rather than being annoyed that you just made the 35ft/round wood elf better at swimming than him.

That brief mention of Selkies reminded me of a very old character I had. I basically just played a human with webbed digits, but her entire motivation to adventure was based on Selkie folklore. Doffed her Seal skin for a fisherman, he stole it and sold it to a traveling merchant. Instead of just being his captive wife, I killed him, then set off to find my skin. Any town we went to, I'd check pawn shops, hunting lodges, collectors, anywhere a rare animal skin might end up. I adventured for money, so I could pay investigators (who frequently scammed me).

The "naur" really got me 🤣

I honestly thought that a male merfolk would be akin to Aquaman. That can basically be as silly or as badass as the player chooses. Dude is king of the sea for a reason!

The Pointy Hat cameo was a pleasant surprise! Feel free to have more community cameos in the future!

"First of all, stop interupting me..." Hilarious.