Limited Amphibiousness. The Caudata can breathe air and water, but must at least submerge itself in water once every twelve hours.
Stone Camouflage. The Caudata has advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks made to hide in rocky terrain.
Slimy. The Caudatas body is covered in a natural coat of mucus which allows it to have advantage against being grappled and restrained and can slip through small spaces otherwise impossible for other creatures to hide. The entrance to such a hiding place must be of at least a 6 inches in diameter.
Sandy Defense. The Caudata can build a sand castle fort out of sand to give itself half cover.
Multiattack. The Caudata makes two melee attacks: one with its chomp and one with its spear.
Chomp. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage. After a chomp the Caudata can try and clamp onto its enemy with its strong jaws. The targeted creature must make a strength (Escape DC 13) to break away from the clamped jaws of the Caudata. All creatures considered medium or larger are considered to be in difficult terrain while in the Caudatas mouth, and all small or tiny creatures are considered to be grappled.
Bucket. Melee Weapon attack: +1 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4 - 1 ) Bludgeoning damage, or 4 (1d6 - 1) Bludgeoning damage if used with two hands to make a melee attack.
Description
Salamander Folk
Caudata resemble Giant Salamanders and a resilient but often times arrogant and proud folk. They live in a number of fresh water ecosystems and can often be found in rivers, white water rapids, lakes, and water falls where they can be seen pan mining for gold, hunting crayfish, stacking rock cairns or even building sand castles.
Awkwardly Adorable
These adorably awkward little beings have little black beady eyes, a rounded back, and stumpy little legs that give them a waddle like a duck as they walk as the use their long flipper like tail to balance themselves. They have an extremely large mouth that runs across the entire width of their head which allows them to hold onto fish, crustaceans, and have even said to have swallowed gnomes, goblins and other similar sized creatures whole.
River Barons
They have a unique social hierarchy as each pod of Caudata are ruled over by a River Baron that acts as the pods leader, who often is the largest most dominant Male. The Baron will usually be in the highest point in the pods territory, as it is used to oversee the group and the territory.
Caudata Names
Because Caudata do not actually have the ability to form sounds for languages they often receive names from their linguistic companions. This can be strange to them as names are a strange concept invented by humans and elves and such. They do have their own language but it often consists of gurgles, hisses, bellows and chirping noises.
Male Names: Steve, Karl, Billy, Bob, Tom, Jerry, and Captain Sprinkle the destroyer of worlds.
Female Names: Jenny, Jane, Mary, Sally, Lucy, Margret and Madam Bubbles the Magnificent.
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