Potestas: a D&D3E supplement

Chapter Two: Races

Merfolk (part-arcane humanoids)

The merfolk are playful, marine-dwelling people. They have the upper bodies, arms, and heads of a land-dwelling humanoid race, but the lower parts of a fish or a cetacean.

Merfolk is a template that can be added to any davinan, human or kattar. The creature (referred to hereafter as the base creature) does not have to meet any characteristic minimums. It uses all the base creature's statistics and special abilities except as noted here.

Racial Traits

• Characteristic Modifiers: +2 Dexterity, +2 Constitution, and +2 Charisma.
• Low-Light Vision (Ex): merfolk can see twice as far as humans, kattar and davinans in starlight, moonlight, torchlight, and similar conditions of poor illumination, and can distinguish colours without difficulty.
• Base Speed: 5 ft, swim 50 feet.
• Underwater Breathing (Ex): merfolk who are part-fish may either breathe air or breathe underwater without difficulty. Merfolk who can breathe underwater cannot breathe air without recourse to magic of some kind, such as the air breathing spell (Drd 3, Bard/Sor 3, comparable to the water breathing spell) or shapechanging. Merfolk who are part-cetacean always breathe air.
• Skills: merfolk have a +8 racial bonus on any Swim check to perform some special action or avoid a hazard. They can always choose to take 10 on a Swim check, even if distracted or endangered. Merfolk can use the run action while swimming, provided they swim in a straight line.
• Automatic Language: all merfolk automatically speak the local language and the language of either fish or cetaceans.
• Level Adjustment: +1.

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