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: kzitem.info/door/PLsmjZYZs1ps3EB_GuzXKEEQWeODalde_o 🧜🏻♀ Download the MERFOLK race: drive.google.com/file/d/17rUHwWYWW5DcSb-n_Uup2UGSFIaBkHSH/view?usp=sharing
@zvenlin
3 ай бұрын
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@Kholan95
3 ай бұрын
Is the playlist going to be opened up for other D&D content creators to add their stuff to? Or like, a Google Form to propose said videos with links when they drop...? It would make sense that only one or two folks updating the playlist could miss stuff/take a while.
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
@Kholan95 Pointy Hat and I are going to be keeping tabs and updating the playlist every day! We'll do our best to keep up, and folks can reach out to either of us if something gets missed.
@leaguesmanoframsgate
3 ай бұрын
I wanted to come up with an addition because your stuff was so inspiring! Therefore, please accept this attempt at an additional subrace:- --- RIVERINE MERFOLK Even in the expansive underwater towns and cities of the merfolk, there are places that feel too small. Others, indeed, look upon the unparalleled vastness of the open ocean and feel too big. Across the world, there are communities of merfolk who rejected the embrace of the sea, instead roaming through river and stream to find a new home where they felt they could truly belong. These merfolk often take on appearances seen more often on terrestrial animals. While some might sport the glittering silver scales of a leaping salmon, others may have the heavy paddle of a beaver or the thick, powerful tail of a river otter. Riverine merfolk tend to live nomadic lives. Their wanderlust takes them across the surface world, seeing things most other merfolk can only dream about. They wander in small groups; a few families at most, often less. While they may seem solitary, riverine merfolk are never truly alone, for they have found kinship with terrestrial plants and animals. Some decide to use this power to bring peace, finding lost lambs or singing to lonely hilltop trees. Others use it strictly to survive, whispering to the forests they run through to track a wild stag for their group's meal. --- RAPIDS RUNNER If you are submerged in water for four hours or more during your long rest, you may take the Dash action as a bonus action both in your humanoid and merfolk form. This is in addition to the benefit provided by your Aquatic Affinity racial ability. In addition, you gain proficiency in the Athletics skill. STREAM CHATTER You may cast the spell Speak With Animals without expending a spell slot a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. You regain these uses after you finish a long rest. You may cast this spell with any additional spell slots you possess. --- Hope you like it! =]
@MostLikelyMortal
3 ай бұрын
As a bi guy, this race speaks to me in many ways
@Josh_Wen
3 ай бұрын
“Mermaids: for men” sounds like a 3 in 1 conditioner, and I love it.
@Babbling_Wizard
2 ай бұрын
Trademark pending
@yes_hi_there
2 ай бұрын
I got a 3 in 1 conditioner ad when she said she needs a male perspective lol
@duckman2443
27 күн бұрын
Or a short, under the sea version of 7 Brides for 7 Brothers.
@steel5315
3 ай бұрын
*draws picture of sexy seal man* "Okay put me back in the closet now" That was 100% on purpose and I love it🤣🤣🤣
@shmee123ful
3 ай бұрын
ginny: why cant i play a mermaid triton: am i a joke to you yes, yes you are
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
🤡🐟 (Sorry, tritons)
@templarw20
Ай бұрын
@@GinnyDi not sorry. The fin feet look really goofy. Bad on land AND the water.
@arellajardin8188
3 ай бұрын
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).
@kat-sp2jm
2 ай бұрын
did she ever get it back D:
@arellajardin8188
2 ай бұрын
@@kat-sp2jm Nope. In Selkie folklore, they would abandon everything if they got their skin back, returning to the sea immediately. If I had found my skin, it would have ended my character.
@queenmarshmallow8013
Ай бұрын
I mean kudos for you to keeping it accurate to folklore, but also you guys could've just said she enjoyed the party's company so much so stayed with them and swam whenever near a shore.
@Beckett-The-Alien
3 ай бұрын
🎶she's death and she's doom, she lives in you bathroom. Mermaid giiiiirlfriend🎵
@dougmhd2006
3 ай бұрын
She's baaaaaaack!😮😅
@philurbaniak1811
3 ай бұрын
Ooh, should we get takeout? I'll call a plumber 😄👌
@Beckett-The-Alien
3 ай бұрын
@@philurbaniak1811 her favorite!
@TinyRobotED-tm9rs
3 ай бұрын
Heheh
@commonviewer2488
3 ай бұрын
Don't get too close, she bites
@mangler2435
2 ай бұрын
As a man who wrote his master thesis on mermaids and sirens this speaks to me on a special level. LOVE all variants. 👏🏽😘👌🏽🧜🏽♂️🧜🏽♀️🌊 Not that is should matter, but I'm bi leaning more for guys.
@kylethomas9130
3 ай бұрын
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.
@lued123
3 ай бұрын
This is the way it officially works in Pathfinder 2E. Howl of the Wild, the book that added the Merfolk ancestry, recommends giving Merfolk PCs a Supramarine Chair for free.
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
I love this idea!!
@procrastinatinggamer
3 ай бұрын
@@GinnyDiThe book that lued123 mentioned in this comment thread had a really cool design for the supramarine chair that the merfolk in the book’s framing device has - it’s tall so she’s more “standing up” in it (though that may just be for increased water storage) and the levers she uses to turn the wheels work like boat oars.
@ForDBssake
3 ай бұрын
@@lued123I came into the comments to see how many people were talking about the PF2e ancestry and how good they are
@lued123
3 ай бұрын
@@procrastinatinggamer KZitem won't let me link it, but if anyone is really curious to see the design of the chair, you can Google search, "paizo blog howl of the wild", click the first result, then scroll down to, "Meet the crew of the Zoetrope!" The character sheet for Lythea the Navigator shows her chair. Edit: Or just image search "pf2e lythea". That worked for me, but your algorithm might not pull it up that easily.
@ne0w01f3
2 ай бұрын
Shark mermaid man is the power fantasy we all want
@naten6981
3 ай бұрын
"What kind of merfolk would men like?" Ripjaws from ben 10. Tidal Merfolk works alright for this
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
Ripjaws is SUCH a good shoutout
@jackofalltrades1594
3 ай бұрын
You have the best taste
@nicklasdantes2471
3 ай бұрын
2 words ''street sharks''
@Telleryn
3 ай бұрын
I'd also say the Naga from Warcraft works for both, aquatic serpentine eel people that can slither along on land on their tails and even stand upright on them
@marcusreading3783
3 ай бұрын
Personally, I like just A little shork.
@smudge8466
3 ай бұрын
I've always wanted to play a merfolk who gets around on land NOT with magic legs and NOT with some special wheelchair, but instead with the power of MARTIAL ARTS. I think a fish lady scooting up to someone and beating the crap out of them with her bare hands is hilarious!
@angeldude101
3 ай бұрын
Walking entirely on their hands, and then attacking by slapping people with their tail.
@t3kscarecrow474
3 ай бұрын
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
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
See, SOME men have taste! 😂
@erikwilliams1562
3 ай бұрын
No, our oceans are terrifying. And that's not including the trash. Jaws has scared me for life
@snips8108
3 ай бұрын
I too am extraordinarily these things and enjoy being a pretty mermaid
@genericname2747
3 ай бұрын
@@erikwilliams1562 Sharks are just idiots! You should be scared of dolphins!
@fightingfalcon777
3 ай бұрын
I get you, dude. I’m a bi cis male, and I think it would be cool as hell to play a merfolk
@EcthelionOTF
3 ай бұрын
I LOVE this. An idea, if the Merfolk character dies in combat, the party LOSES their water-breathing. Making that character a core aspect of underwater adventure, and feeling like the center focus in a meaningful, thematic way that doesn’t step on the toes of other players
@gabrielmunozbezerra9632
17 күн бұрын
Nice, time to protect the fish
@trublgrl
3 ай бұрын
Mermaid with tail. Giant fishbowl. "Levitate" as a free cantrip. *BOOM!*
@rafaszczawinski4103
3 ай бұрын
Or: four goblins carrying the fishbowl at all times.
@trublgrl
3 ай бұрын
@@rafaszczawinski4103 Ugh, the chatter!
@karmelllll
2 ай бұрын
Absolutely yes
@warmachine5835
2 ай бұрын
Hear me out--fishbowl mech. Extremely technologically advanced, built robots/power armor for land use.
@trublgrl
2 ай бұрын
@@warmachine5835 It's full of water! You want to electrocute the mermaid? Think, McFly, think!
@minaly22
3 ай бұрын
Also wanted to add my two cents about the Water Breathing argument presented by Ginny in the video. In campaigns that do involve going underwater, the campaign book or the DM would then hand out water breathing magic items from air bubbles or potion/scroll of water breathing anyway. So having a character that has a feature for that doesn't break a setting's main obstacle at all. Nice skit as usual! Pointy Hat emerging and then being shoved back into a dusty cupboard was really funny 😂
@starscream71288
3 ай бұрын
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
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@pattheplanter
3 ай бұрын
I didn't get that ad. Did it mention the price of a Jeff Goldblum?
@graywolfdracon
3 ай бұрын
I got a political ad instead.
@3nertia
3 ай бұрын
@@pattheplanter I believe he would cost one, ahem, "Goldblum" xD
@codex_jinora
3 ай бұрын
I've been DYING since 2015 to be able to play my half-siren in a D&D setting, and this is PERFECT. Ginny I knew you were a mermaid fan but this is genuinely the best present you could've given to the community. I love this so much I could cry.
@wunnup3229
3 ай бұрын
The lore implications of the Ginny Di universe when we learn Pointy Hat just... LIVES IN HER CLOSET, APPARENTLY.
@cgkase6210
3 ай бұрын
He's been hiding in there while they plan Kraken Week
@wunnup3229
3 ай бұрын
@@cgkase6210 That makes more sense, but I prefer my new headcanon that they're roommates and nobody talks about it lol
@Stormcaller3801
3 ай бұрын
@@wunnup3229 I was assuming that Pointy Hat uses closets as a sort of Planescape-esque network of portals to visit different content creators, but that works too.
@JohnWilliams-cr2sz
3 ай бұрын
Oh I have the mental image of just all of Ginny's characters living in her house and just causing all sorts of chaos. The sitcom plots practically write themselves!
@moraien3278
3 ай бұрын
She should be carefull. His familiar somtimes burn closets.
@gabrielmartinspedra5598
3 ай бұрын
Ginny and Pointy named this entire week named after a tentacled creature and are paying the price for it. Also, Atop the Rock supremacy.
@kayleyanna3164
3 ай бұрын
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 ❤
@misterthegeoff9767
3 ай бұрын
If you haven't already come across it the combat wheelchair rules by Mark Thompson are a boon to anyone wanting to keep their tail on land.
@myname8035
3 ай бұрын
Agreed, it would be great fun for wheelchair and/or other mobility aid users to be represented in d&d with a merfolk race that doesn't transform. Maybe coastal towns with a large community of costal merfolk living nearby are more wheelchair accessible too! (Would also work bc docks often need to wheel/lift things around) Damn, now I want it to be Canon... Happy disability pride to you too! ❤
@misterthegeoff9767
3 ай бұрын
@@professorhal8098 as a queer disabled person nah I'm cool with getting 2 months instead (but yeah seriously some more intersectionality would rock, disabled people can have a hard time with protest marches)
@PlatformingCyndaquil
3 ай бұрын
I have the same problem.
@spongecakes1986
Ай бұрын
Monster High did this before. He wasn't a big character, but there was a really cool short with him. He was like an adrenaline junkie and the girls were super worried about him and didn't want to tell him about Skulltimate Roller Maze (the school's biggest sport) because it's super dangerous and they knew he'd like it, because they thought he'd hurt. Then Clawd tells him about it and the girls get mad at him, but he quickly reminds them that he thought the same thing when they wanted to play, but they proved him wrong. They talk to the mermaid dude and he tells them that while he appreciates that they want to look out for him at his new school, he's not as fragile as they think, and it's his choice to do things that people with legs can do, no matter how dangerous it is. If people with legs can play the sport despite the danger, he can, too. Even though he's not a big character, I think the short is a really cool piece of representation that there wasn't a lot of at the time (or even now honestly) and a great lesson to teach kids.
@cyprienramis1304
3 ай бұрын
You shouldn't put pointy hat in the closet in my opinion, he's probably gonna burn it down next time he comes out of it.
@CaitlinKoi
2 ай бұрын
8:00 A great balance for the overpowered water breath would be disabling the use of fire ball while submerged in water
@krysbingham2501
3 ай бұрын
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.
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
I think involuntary transformation is interesting, but it would be a major downside for a merfolk PC that other races don't have to deal with! I am not super into the idea of giving just ONE race a huge achilles heel. although of course, I am all for doing whatever each player & their table thinks will be fun! It's just not something I'd write into the race.
@krysbingham2501
3 ай бұрын
@@GinnyDi Oh yeah, definitely not for everyone's table, just something that stuck out with how modern media like H20 and Luca that in my head with a potential flavor and aesthetic. At least the involuntary bit in Luca is a little more wieldy since there's legs and a tail involved. I'd go for it but that's just a me thing for a potential game in the future so the homebrew helps. Also check out Under the Seas of Vodari sometime, you'd have fun because its got rules for entirely aquatic campaigns you'd adore
@leafscaer4710
3 ай бұрын
Planeshift, has merfolk(with sub-races), vampires, sirens, dog people, bird people (with sub-races), naga, space elementals?, and sky islanders.
@luiseveigel849
3 ай бұрын
Getting roasted by yourself in a mermaid costume while explaining mermaids sounds like a fever dream. It also makes great content, apparently 😂❤. I love this video a lot
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
Sometimes the scripts just write themselves 😅
@johnnyappleseed621
2 ай бұрын
Just wanted to say thanks to you and pointy hat for creating this event. I have been introduced to several content creators that I had not heard of before because of it. Well done!
@DastardlyDnD
3 ай бұрын
Thank you both for setting this up! Love me some pirates and sea monsters! Love this concept for a merfolk race, and the surprise guest was fun!
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
I don't know if you mean Undertow or Pointy Hat, but I suppose my response of "they've been taking up space in my house, they might as well pull their weight!" applies either way 😂
@LaughingCrow13
Ай бұрын
I feel your pain, I am currently running a pirate / aquatic themed campaign, and I didn't get a single merfolk player. I did get a Triton though
@benjamincortez4259
3 ай бұрын
Wow. The last time I was this early, the kraken hadn’t even been unleashed yet.
@DndNate-qs1fz
3 ай бұрын
Now I want to make a panda race
@kmagdeev
3 ай бұрын
Fun fact: pathfinder recently released a merfolk ancestry and its super cool. You can enchant people with magical singing or bite them with shark-like jaws. And yes, you can do both.
@ardentslacker
3 ай бұрын
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.
@andresmarrero8666
3 ай бұрын
Does the bike also run on sea water and has see through sections so that one can see the water flowing through the contraption?
@savingpyro
3 ай бұрын
Please make the bike look like the "bikes" from Atlantis!
@GwenActually
3 ай бұрын
this sounds cool af
@TheRhetoricGamer
3 ай бұрын
Go further than that and make a mech! In Pathfinder, I made an inventor merfolk, red-haired with a lionfish pattern, that rides a mech made from scrap and a broken apparatus of the crab. The cockpit functions like an aquarium to keep her comfortable and hydrated.
@ardentslacker
3 ай бұрын
@@andresmarrero8666 It does now! ^_^
@georgewarburton7482
2 ай бұрын
There’s potions that let people breath underwater, there should be potions that let mermaids swim in air. Maybe like daily meds to give them weightlessness, give air viscosity, and allow breathing of said air.
@georgewarburton7482
2 ай бұрын
When you realize that we are all living under an ocean as well (the atmosphere is a “fluid” ocean of gas with different densities) this would be very cool
@purpleniumowlbear2952
3 ай бұрын
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.
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
Great point!
@trise2033
3 ай бұрын
Wouldn't that just make it so a party of merfolk would swim infinitely fast if they all made out together while doing it?
@MemoryPhaseStudios
3 ай бұрын
How about +10 to swim speed if they already have one like Aquatic Affinity?
@purpleniumowlbear2952
3 ай бұрын
@@MemoryPhaseStudios yeah, you’re right. +30 is too much. 30 or +10 would be more refined.
@AnnikaOakinnA
3 ай бұрын
@@trise2033 you say that like it's a bad thing!
@AMoniqueOcampo
3 ай бұрын
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!
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
LEGS 😤
@DanielTaber-p7f
3 ай бұрын
Aquaman is a Triton, down to being able to speak with fish.
@SG_01
3 ай бұрын
I was thinking the same thing, but then I realized that it is probably easier to turn him into a ranger subclass mechanically than a race.
@templarw20
3 ай бұрын
@@GinnyDi Sidon!
@7-BloodRose-7
2 ай бұрын
READ THIS ONE NOT THE OTHER ONE. Can you please make a ✨siren✨ version? Tho if you do can there be males and females? Oh and please make them beautiful, not the ugly deepwater version (that version is still cool just not what I have in mind😅) if you do decide to do this. Oh and one more thing can they have 3 forms?1 completely human 2 semi aquatic with fins, web hands, and claws and 3 being the completely aquatic form 🥺🙏🙇♂️
@MisterDiceGuy
3 ай бұрын
The moment the you began rattling off shows I'm like "Incoming Naur!"
@endorsedbryce
3 ай бұрын
Googling this doesn't reveal anything.
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
@@endorsedbryce The eldritch texts are too ancient 🧜♀
@endorsedbryce
3 ай бұрын
@@GinnyDi D=
@Reoh0z
3 ай бұрын
You wanted to play as a Mermaid, and I wanted to be terrified by your Mermaid Persona. This is a win:win!
@goodeveningtalos
3 ай бұрын
The "naur" really got me 🤣
@AfroditeBell
3 ай бұрын
Saaaame!!
@skeepodoop5197
3 ай бұрын
Random thoughts: -Giving water breathing and a swim speed to the whole party really isn't that powerful IMO. Most games don't take place near the water, and in those that do, the DM was probably going to throw the party a bone and give them the ability to breath underwater and swim anyways. Also, because a lot of classes that have water breathing can prepare spells, you'll be allowing them to take other spells they normally couldn't have prepared. -Btw, there's a Merfolk NPC race in the Dungeon Master's Guide that you could technically play as (I wouldn't recommend it though because they only have 10ft of walking speed). And there's a few more in the plane shift books (though those barely count as Merfolk because they're just Tritons again). If you wanna be really crazy, you could play a Dhampir, and have your racial ancestry be the NPC race Merfolk to gain their 40ft swimming speed, but retain your 35ft walking speed to be a mermaid vampire that can somehow move almost as fast as they can swim on land with a tail lol.
@GhostWolf743
3 ай бұрын
The Pointy Hat cameo was a pleasant surprise! Feel free to have more community cameos in the future!
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
oh don't worry, I already feel quite free to do whatever I want on my channel 😜 this is Pointy Hat's third cameo in my videos, actually!
@patrickpercefull8278
3 ай бұрын
I once was in a game where it was heavily homebrewed. All the characters were animal/human/elf hybrids. We had a bear/orc Barbarian. We had a fox/elf Bard...and so on. I chose a Spider/ elf wizard. Basically a lawful evil smart Drider. Anyway, sometimes i would go out and hunt/pay fishermen. So that i would eat mermaids. Just the bottom part, I'm not a cannibal. I have standards. That game lasted for years.
@thenightranger987
3 ай бұрын
I’m in a high seas campaign right now and half of our players are the same homebrew race called the Okenasi, which is a sort of shapeshifting merfolk that can be any sort of sea animal (one person is playing an octopus-human and another is a dolphin-human). They can switch between having legs and having other animal parts, but need to have a certain amount of water to stay human for a long time. Also don’t be too hard on yourself about the whole tentacle thing. That campaign had a magical item that was unironically called the Tentacle Rod.
@splatman7300
3 ай бұрын
In case you weren’t aware already, the tentacle rod is unfortunately a legit dnd item
@NNextremNN
3 ай бұрын
Pathfinder 2e Howl of the Wild has official mermaids. Also why give them legs with no downsides? Even Grung have issues when they can't submerge themselves. It's like playing a warlock or cleric and than complaining that you have to deal with your patron/deity
@nivthefox
3 ай бұрын
Missed opportunity: the bonus action swap should be "Land Legs", as a joke on Sea Legs, because the default state is to have the tail.
@tombratcher6938
3 ай бұрын
"Land fins"?
@7-BloodRose-7
2 ай бұрын
Can you please make a ✨siren✨ version? Tho if you do can there be males and females? Oh and please make them beautiful, not the ugly deepwater version (that version is still cool just not what I have in mind😅) if you do decide to do this 🥺🙏🙇♂️
@thebienderman4848
3 ай бұрын
4:35 I love how you pulled a muscle to bring someone down 2 flights of stairs for someone who can walk😂😂
@volosguidetomonsters3440
3 ай бұрын
hodor
@Neuvost
3 ай бұрын
why was it two flights of stairs tho? how deep do Ginny's basements go?
@LaceNWhisky
2 ай бұрын
Paizo just released a Merfolk ancestry for Pathfinder 2e that handles everything you homebrewed here. And they're a company that unionized in 2019 and has never hired the Pinkertons to harass KZitemrs.
@jadethest0ne
3 ай бұрын
The whole "needing to make this for a man" thing is ironic, cuz the one player of mine that I was thinking this was perfect for (before you brought in pointyhat), is a man. "The Thirteenth Year" is your classic merfolk story with a boy as the main character, and also one of my player's favorite films. Either way, thank you, I shall be scooping this up for my game table!
@AM-hf9kk
3 ай бұрын
Lots of good info and ideas on this channel, but this video is a big miss. Ugh... I'm sure I'll be beat up as a "grognard," but this is peak DanDWiki. "I don't like this rule, so I'll just ignore it. And I want a mechanical benefit from this flavor. And I found a story that says I should have this, so it's totally balanced. Oh yeah, and that's just the base race!"
@TheGIJew.
3 ай бұрын
The mermaid stuff sounds great, but the most interesting lore drop in this video is that Pointy Hat lives in Ginny's closet
@chrisfellows8507
3 ай бұрын
You missed the "obvious" choice! Cathulu esq. Natural warlocks. Could have ties to the astral plane.... I love pointy! Best boy, err hat! But come on this wrights itself!
@LeeCarlson
3 ай бұрын
When you mentioned the various media with merfolk, I thought of "Siren." However, it occurs to me that designs for the "combat wheelchair" lend themselves to folk without legs. I might also place some limitations on the Water Breathing, such as linking its duration to the tides and limiting the number of targets to the merfolk's level.
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
Giving a mermaid a combat wheelchair instead of (or along with!) a transformation ability is GENIUS and I wish I'd thought of it! That's so good!!
@MesoJoe
2 ай бұрын
Ginny: No furries *Pointy hat hands her picture of selkie tidal merfolk* Also Ginny: Yeah, this is good, I'mma keep this now
@corbyrobinson3640
3 ай бұрын
"First of all, stop interupting me..." Hilarious.
@zufinfluby
3 ай бұрын
Please tell me you've read "into the drowning deep". If not, please do! It's about scary murder mermaids from the Mariana trench :D
@Eruvadhril
3 ай бұрын
"Being stuck with a mermaid tail would make it really difficult to adventure." Supramarine chair baybee!
@speculativemusings3593
3 ай бұрын
I had an NPC based on Ariel in my first campaign. She was a Feylost Simic Hybrid Fathomless Warlock. The idea was that she was a mermaid that got trapped in the Feywild, made a deal with her patron, Ursula, to escape, and now serves as Ursula’s errand-girl until she pays off her debt. To facilitate this, her tail was swapped for legs, and she has tentacle hair (her Feylost trait). She can extend her hair to grab things and help her climb (her Simic Hybrid traits). I included her as an intended rival for my friend’s Fairy character, because I knew she liked the movie. What I didn’t expect was that the two would start flirting because my friend liked the pairing so much. Oh well, roll with the dice you’re given, right?
@convalaria
3 ай бұрын
I have actually been wanting to play a mermaid for a while (my current pc is a triton, you can see i’m doing my best) so this is amazing
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
Yess join me 🙌
@misterthegeoff9767
3 ай бұрын
one of my recent PCs was a triton pirate with a scary mermaid girlfriend because I couldn't make a playable mermaid on dndbeyond so I feel you there
@wavemaster4891
2 ай бұрын
Have you quit the Roll 4 Initiagive campaign, Ginny? You were in like 2 episodes and have just been gone since then.
@BlossomRaique
3 ай бұрын
I've always wanted a mermaid race and now you've made one, this is awesome!!
@egomane3
3 ай бұрын
The moment you said you wanted a male perspective, I closed my eyes and hoped it was pointy hat and when you opened the closet and he was there I audibly shouted "yes" ... I'm currently sitting in the office ... ehm yes... :D
@AlbertaGeek
3 ай бұрын
My homebrew merfolk also transform to legged, have blind sight that only works when underwater (for those deep and/or murky seas), resistance to cold-based attacks, and advantage on any roll involving the effects of coldness from spells or the environment.
@droidgeist
3 ай бұрын
The first of those is really cool. Love that idea. I think that would be perfect for Ginny's Deepwater subrace. Might make less sense for the others.
@AlbertaGeek
3 ай бұрын
@@droidgeist I understand what you're saying, but I'm basing the ability on a very real sense that all fish have courtesy of their _lateral line organ,_ or LLO. Perhaps deep-sea variants would have a greater sensory range, though.
@droidgeist
3 ай бұрын
@@AlbertaGeek That's really interesting! Never knew that, and that's a strong argument for giving them all it. Having said that, D&D often limits senses to create differentiation - average cats don't have darkvision for example.
@connoraltier7081
3 ай бұрын
Funny enough, Pathfinder 2e just revealed recently a playable Mermaid heritage. Though I think it was fairly lukewarm reception since it was exclusively water based there
@daniellemurnett2534
3 ай бұрын
I can confirm that PF2 Merfolk are, pardon the pun, fish out of water when not in their natural habitat, but they have reasonable ways of mitigating this. Most notably the Supramarine Chair which is a level 0 common item that costs 5sp. Very affordable given that each character starts with 15 gold to spend on common level 1 or below gear. Admittedly it lowers your speed to 20 feet (average in PF2 is 25, you're on par with a dwarf), but I think it's reasonable for merfolk to be at least inconvenienced on land. By 9th level you can take a feat to give you a full 25 land speed by taking off your mermaid tail for as long as you want.
@edgar-sama642
3 ай бұрын
A more animalistic mermaid that can transform is a really cool idea, like Ripjaws from Ben 10
@YoWorkMama
2 ай бұрын
Sweet! This can add some depth to one of my centaur campaigns!!! (😂 depth). I totally want to take them under water now 💖✨
@robertdean52
3 ай бұрын
One challenge to having merfolk characters underwater is that the tactical combat would be inherently three-dimensional. Reaper alone has plenty of minis, but but using them properly is a different story.
@alltat
3 ай бұрын
You can avoid that problem by having most of the combat happen in a underwater caves or ruins, or fairly shallow water.
@Ditidos
3 ай бұрын
Technically, I believe merfolk with cephalopods bottom halfs aren't merfolk, they are a diferent creature called a cecaelia.
@thedocklighter
3 ай бұрын
_Swim through Air,_ settling if motionless. One example of custom Merfolk-oriented spells. Ritual to imbue legs for a day, requiring a long rest in water. Just a little willing creativity to carry off.
@TheShadowGod7117
3 ай бұрын
I've made 500+ Races out of bordism. Please let me know if you need help because im tired and need some race to put together
@brentage5000
3 ай бұрын
Love this! Im currently part of an underwater campaign and one of our players actually is a mermaid, and that's in addition to actually mermaiding IRL.
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
Living the DREAM! 🧜♀️🥰
@carlieenglish995
3 ай бұрын
Way to out me lmfao
@dmeep
3 ай бұрын
the newest pathfinder sourcebook had a mermaid race complete with a bathtub segway for land mission mobility ;)
@s0ulwind
3 ай бұрын
This is why 3.5 rules. We *had* playable mermaids, lol!
@link090909
3 ай бұрын
PF2e has it now! Just saying ;)
@vamphunterx
2 ай бұрын
@@link090909nobody wants to play jankfinder 2
@ModiDraconia
3 ай бұрын
Or we can do thee One Piece approach by giving bubble floaties to the merfolk....
@paszczar3352
3 ай бұрын
Two of my favorite youtubers drop a video at the same time. Omg thank you and pointy hat for being so amazing❤
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
I hope you enjoy Kraken Week!! 🦑
@ShallieDragon
3 ай бұрын
I love everything about this! Thank you for making something so cool! Also gonna check out the other creators.
@marcusreading3783
3 ай бұрын
...I feel called out. I just want a tentacle mermaid because I love the aesthetic!
@waywardh9528
3 ай бұрын
Mhmm, sure
@lebunnisk6389
2 ай бұрын
I feel like a really good idea for the merfolk race is them being able to "swim" through the air as if in the water, Merfolk are supposed to be magical like all the other races so i feel like a sub-race maybe mixed with a fairy of some kind using their magic to swim in the air is pretty cool and i love the idea
@relicking9207
3 ай бұрын
I like to think the reason why Merfolk don't go into the deep depths is because as you said, it's scary down there, and they treat it like humans treat caves
@jellyzimmermann9688
3 ай бұрын
you could also add in hybrids like tidal mermaid but with some deep ocean mermaid blood allowing them to have tentacles or innate magic at the cost of having a permanent tail making movement on land hard
@willbrashear
3 ай бұрын
That poor neighbor with the loud motorcycle if they ever see the video... he probably okayed it.
@bskec2177
2 ай бұрын
"PC3 Sea People" is a Basic D&D supplement with rules for underwater movement, spellcasting, and aquatic character races, including merfolk (they are called merrow here). It was printed in 1990, and there are free pdf's available online if you know where to look. Basic rules were different than 5e though - it used what is now referred to as the "race as class" system. That would mean an elf is an elf, and gains levels in being an elf, instead of class levels - and that applies to the character races in this book as well. It's all fairly easily modified to work in 5e however, and includes some sample encounters and adventure ideas. Species include Tritons, Aquatic elves, Merrow, Kna (8ft tall humanoid Koi fish), Kopru (looks a little like if an illithid was a merfolk, but eels for tails -also pyschic), Sea Giants, Shark-kin (sahuagin rip offs), and Nixies. Sea Giants are powerful, but every other race swims, and giants have to walk on the sea floor, so they're a little balanced (imagine playing where all the other PC's and monsters fly and you can't, but you're also 20 ft tall). Also, Basic balanced races by XP requirements for leveling up, and powerful races can start at negative levels. Your Sea Giant character would start adventuring as a child.
@droidgeist
3 ай бұрын
There are so many cool mythical creatures from real world mythology that aren't a prominent part of D&D: - Jorogumo: Spider demons from Japanese folklore that can transform into beautiful women to lure victims. - Encantados: Shape-shifting dolphin spirits from South American folklore that can turn into humans. - Leprechauns: I know halflings exist, but they're closer to hobbits than leprechauns. - Nymphs & Dryads: they have such a prominent place in numerous mythologies - the fact that they're not playable races is crazy to me.
@TheRoseWolf
3 ай бұрын
"achkually" dryads are a type of nymph, so it's something. I agree on the fact that they're not playable is absurd, though
@Eruvadhril
3 ай бұрын
Season of Ghosts has some interactions and negotiation with a jorogumo NPC, and she's a very cool character. I'd definitely like to see more of her.
@droidgeist
3 ай бұрын
@@TheRoseWolf Nymphs and Dryads aren't real creatures - there's no formal taxonomy for them. Just because websites like Wikipedia choose to group them together under the same umbrella, it doesn't mean that's how they always have to be perceived.
@droidgeist
3 ай бұрын
@@Eruvadhril Haven't heard of that but it sounds cool. I'll have to check it out now!
@tsifirakiehl4250
3 ай бұрын
I want to be a hot spider demon lady!
@TheSpoegefugl
3 ай бұрын
You could even integrate your types of merfolk as being a lore reason for there to be the kind of merfolk, who transform without their explicit intent. You could kinda go the shifter route. For shifters, they have an ancestor, who was some kind of lycanthrope (wereanimal). For this, the merfolk who transform when wet could have an ancestor who was a full blooded merfolk, but the ability to transform at will kinda gets muddied a bit over the generations and becomes involuntary.
@lued123
3 ай бұрын
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.
@pinkcupcake4717
2 ай бұрын
That's what I was thinking, I don't need to homebrew this in PF2, it's official content!
@TheWerns
3 ай бұрын
*knock knock* Pointy Hat in the closet: "Hi" This made me fall out of my chair in laughter
@bealikestodraw
3 ай бұрын
Ginny, istg not too long ago my brain thought of this concept and you just made it so much easier. K.J.(my character) I ended up making after buying the PDF document for An Elf and an Orc had a little Baby. They're basically a merfolk/elf rogue but their mermaid half is actually kraken and their tail is actually octopus tentacles in the water. The fact that you up and made this feels more than coincidental. 😅
@chloegoodwin2482
Ай бұрын
"Naur!?" I feel so attacked.
@DnDDeepDive
3 ай бұрын
Glug Glug Glug
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
GLUG GLUG GLUG 🙌
@BabyShenanigans
2 ай бұрын
What about an arctic mermaid that's like half human half narwhal. They could even have a horn lol
@XilbusZ
3 ай бұрын
Have you looked into Pathfinder 2E? As of the book 'Howl of the Wild', Merfolk (With Tails) are now a playable Ancestory. They have a level 1 feat called Swimmer's Guidance that grants all allies within 30 feet of them a 10-foot swim speed.
@link090909
3 ай бұрын
Shout out Paizo for being better than the coastal wizards again
@jacobgalloway1392
3 ай бұрын
They live on the COAST they should at least have merfolk…. But nooooo
@claudiolentini5067
3 ай бұрын
Also, the poster character has an "acquatic" wheelchair
@vamphunterx
3 ай бұрын
What is that supposed to do for a 5e player? She knows PF2 exists, did you stop and think that maybe she doesn't like it? Paizo did a mostly terrible job with Merfolk and the Hydration crap(which the actual FISH people don't even have) and their slower swim speed than Gillmen.
@link090909
3 ай бұрын
@@vamphunterx Paizo's mermaid is still better than WotC's 🤷♂️ but also, even if you're stuck in 5e, you can grab inspiration (steal) mechanics from other games
@lordedmundblackadder9321
2 ай бұрын
I would say “I’m a man and I love this” but honestly I don’t even know anymore (if I’m a man)
@martiraz
3 ай бұрын
Now this is such a wonderful blessing for me. I'm running a pretty homebrewed campaign focused around a large island ocean continent, and quite a lot is going to feature and happen around water, so having a new race of merfolk as this will greatly help me. I LOVE IT. This solves several of my issues and has imedeatly opened new doors and given me extra inspiration, cant wait to use it.
@echostrauss8304
3 ай бұрын
I can't believe we put Pointy Hat back in the closet. Pride month really is over 😭
@nathanlamberth7631
3 ай бұрын
Oh I'm definitely playing a deepwater merfolk that works as a masseuse. He's offered his services back home for years, but now his client base has begun to wane pushing him to travel abroad for new clients.
@saurianwatcher4437
2 ай бұрын
And now we have the perfect bard for the classical "oh, I'm sorry, the shared breath must be done by touch" lecherousness.
@HeartOfArt7
3 ай бұрын
I loved fairies and mermaids ever since I was a little child ^^💕🧚🏻♀️🧜🏻♀️ I've actually created a completely homebrewed campaign for me and my friends, where I'm playing a seawalker priest. Seawalkers are an underwater species I made up, which has legs and a tail. They live in small clans and are known throughout the ocean as skillfull hunters and fast swimmers. They usually stay away from land-dwelling folk, but they can actually breathe on land and in fresh water, but they'll always prefer salt water. My character (named Pisc) always has to sleep either in a bathtub - to which he adds a little bit of salt - or in a pond/river. During the day, he has to keep his skin wet, preferably (which he achieves by keeping his pet axolotl Kip close). But due to his upbringing underwater, he is very swift and fast. The party can breathe underwater for 2 days straight by drinking any mer's blood or tears. Maybe my party will even end up in a mermaid kingdom later in the game. We'll see ^^🩵
@ForDBssake
3 ай бұрын
Sounds like you'd find Pathfinder handy for ideas at the very least. They have so many cute and creepy ancestories including merfolk, pumpkins, spiders, mushrooms, talking horse, and so much more. I've made a ficus that's a warlock no homebrew required.
@saltandvichips
3 ай бұрын
Dimension 20: A Starstruck Odyssey has Siobhan Thompson play a Aguatunisian, essentially a mermaid, in a version of DnD based on star wars and it fits both the world and the gameplay while still having interesting mechanics around her being an entirely aquatic race. If you haven't seen it I would recommend taking a look
@leelamb9789
3 ай бұрын
This is amazing!! I love mermaids and have always wanted to play one! Thank you so much Ginny!!!! :)
@GinnyDi
3 ай бұрын
You are so welcome! 🥰
@terence7025
2 ай бұрын
1:55 "land folk almost never encounter them" that we (land dwellers) know about. If they look human (or elven, or fae... etc) how would we know? Also don't forget the silkies (cold water, curvey, furry), the fresh water lakes and rivers (same as their sea kin but less salty and maybe druid friendly), and under-dark (horrors of the deep).
@terence7025
2 ай бұрын
And yes I saw that the Tidal-mer were silkie like, but they don't change form, and that was a key point in the song about the silkie.
@rileymarie1940
3 ай бұрын
One of my favourite parts of being a DM is giving players freedom and creating homebrew lore. If someone wants to play a non-official character build, go for it! If there aren't pre-written rules for whatever thing, we collaborate and make them! I know not all folks enjoy designing new races but this is just what works for us!
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