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underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
Change Appearance. You transform your appearance. You decide what you look like, including your height, weight, facial features, sound of your
, you can use your action to change your appearance in this way again.
Natural Weapons. You grow claws, fangs, spines, horns, or a different natural weapon of your choice. Your unarmed strikes deal
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
similar one. For example, a Potion of Climbing could become a Potion of Swimming. Altered Form You can alter a magic item’s form while leaving its properties intact. For example, you can turn a Ring of
instead deal damage of another type. For example, a Flame Tongue sword could deal Lightning damage instead of Fire damage. Combining Items You can merge the properties of two magic items of the same
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Planescape: Adventures in the Multiverse->Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
, culminating in an assault by a massive elder whirlwyrm. This giant whirlwyrm uses the behir stat block with these adjustments: Replace its climbing speed with a swimming speed of 60 feet. It slithers
swiftly on land and retains its 50-foot walking speed. Change its lightning breath to deal thunder damage. This represents its discombobulating roar. The enraged whirlwyrm fights to the death. Mike
feats
strikes deal 1d8 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, as appropriate to the natural weapon you chose.
12
Amphibisprings. With enhanced muscles and a ratcheting mechanism in your tendons, your
jumping distance is tripled.
13
Aqueous Adaptation. You can breathe underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
14
Tentacle Arm. One of your limbs is replaced with
feats
like a humanoid you’ve seen before (GM’s choice).
11
Natural Weapon. You grow a natural weapon of your choice (e.g. claws, fangs, horns). Your unarmed strikes deal 1d8 bludgeoning
.
13
Aqueous Adaptation. You can breathe underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
14
Tentacle Arm. One of your limbs is replaced with an octopus-like tentacle. Your
feats
like a humanoid you’ve seen before (GM’s choice).
11
Natural Weapon. You grow a natural weapon of your choice (e.g. claws, fangs, horns). Your unarmed strikes deal 1d8 bludgeoning
.
13
Aqueous Adaptation. You can breathe underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
14
Tentacle Arm. One of your limbs is replaced with an octopus-like tentacle. Your
feats
like a humanoid you’ve seen before (GM’s choice).
11
Natural Weapon. You grow a natural weapon of your choice (e.g. claws, fangs, horns). Your unarmed strikes deal 1d8 bludgeoning
.
13
Aqueous Adaptation. You can breathe underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.
14
Tentacle Arm. One of your limbs is replaced with an octopus-like tentacle. Your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Basic Rules (2014)
adapt your body to an aquatic environment, sprouting gills and growing webbing between your fingers. You can breathe underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed. Change Appearance
Weapons. You grow claws, fangs, spines, horns, or a different natural weapon of your choice. Your unarmed strikes deal 1d6 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, as appropriate to the natural
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
adapt your body to an aquatic environment, sprouting gills and growing webbing between your fingers. You can breathe underwater and gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed. Change Appearance
Weapons. You grow claws, fangs, spines, horns, or a different natural weapon of your choice. Your unarmed strikes deal 1d6 bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage, as appropriate to the natural
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
. Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed of 30 feet. Bite. Your fanged maw is a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you
deal piercing damage equal to 1d6 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. Cunning Artisan. As part of a short rest, you can harvest bone and hide from a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
age 15 and can live up to 200 years. Size. Tritons are slightly shorter than humans, averaging about 5 feet tall. Your size is Medium. Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming
wall’s space has disadvantage on the attack roll, and fire damage is halved if the fire effect passes through the wall to reach its target. Spells that deal cold damage that pass through the wall
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tyranny of Dragons
characters must be cautious while using area spells that deal fire or force damage. One such spell does minimal damage that can be fixed by the crew at sea after the fight ends. If two such spells are used
on board must make a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed saving throw, a creature is dumped overboard. A creature that falls into the frigid water is swimming and must make a DC 12 Constitution
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
the summoned familiar with a measure of your eldritch power, granting the creature the following benefits: The familiar gains either a flying speed or a swimming speed (your choice) of 40 feet. As a
Talisman feature When the wearer of your talisman is hit by an attacker you can see within 30 feet of you, you can use your reaction to deal psychic damage to the attacker equal to your proficiency bonus
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
unannounced visit. The kraken announces its arrival by wrapping its gigantic tentacles around the hull of the Morkoth. All creatures aboard the ship are surprised unless they are swimming beneath the
an action, the kraken can attack the Morkoth with all ten of its tentacles and deal 250 bludgeoning damage to the ship on each of its turns, accounting for the Morkoth’s damage threshold and the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
your pact weapon, you can expend a warlock spell slot to deal an extra 1d8 force damage to the target, plus another 1d8 per level of the spell slot, and you can knock the target prone if it is Huge or
this invocation, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest. Gift of the Depths Prerequisite: 5th level You can breathe underwater, and you gain a swimming speed equal to your
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
young bronze dragon, Zelifarn, swimming around a barnacle-covered shipwreck at the bottom of the deep harbor. The friendly dragon tries to coax as much treasure as it can from the characters. Those
positions throughout the city. We must deal with this problem at once. Infiltrate Xanathar’s lair and destroy whatever is responsible for creating these creatures.” The characters must slay Nihiloor the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Rise of Tiamat
characters must be cautious while using area spells that deal fire or force damage. One such spell does minimal damage that can be fixed by the crew at sea after the fight ends. If two such spells
creature on board must make a DC15 Dexterity saving throw. On a failed saving throw, a creature is dumped overboard. A creature that falls into the frigid water is swimming, and must make a DC 12
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
in pounds = 90 + (2d4 × your size modifier) Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed of 30 feet. Amphibious. You can breathe air and water. Control Air and Water. You
the wall to reach its target. Spells that deal cold damage that pass through the wall cause the area of the wall they pass through to freeze solid (at least a 5-foot-square section is frozen). Each 5
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
, or swimming speed. Flying Monster. Increase the monster’s effective Armor Class by 2 (not its actual AC) if it can fly and deal damage at range and if its expected challenge rating is 10 or lower
the monster’s expected challenge rating and use the Monster Statistics by Challenge Rating table to determine how much damage the monster should deal every round. The table presents a range at each
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
a mated pair of white dragons who turned it into a nursery. Now the frost giants have reclaimed the place and trapped one of the dragons inside. 4A. Statue of Thrym The wind has carried a great deal
through the floor of the lodge to reach the ice underneath, creating a 50-foot-diameter, water-filled tunnel. Thin ice covers the hole. For more information on thin ice and swimming in frigid water, see
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Acquisitions Incorporated
if the characters try to explain themselves or do a deal with her. She is generally forthright in her answers (because she’s proud of her brilliance and expects the characters to die), revealing any
attacking the clockwork behind them can have the same effect. 6. Swimming Pool The double doors to this huge chamber are covered in clockwork that functions as a lock. A successful DC 20 Dexterity check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
hidden, Sgothgah uses its lair action to cast phantasmal force to make it appear to the characters that the dead shark has reanimated and is swimming through the air to attack them. Until one of the
characters detects the illusion, pretend to use the statistics of a giant shark for the creature, but its attacks always hit and deal 3 (1d6) psychic damage. Even though the illusory shark doesn’t actually
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
. If the characters succeed in opening negotiations, Eyon questions them with a good deal of suspicion. She is a hard-bitten, callous mercenary who expects only the worst from people. The instant Eyon
canals. Check for a random encounter once every per hour while the party is swimming or moving by boat anywhere on a canal. Roll a d20 and consult the following table: d20 Encounter 1 1d4 + 1 ghouls
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Quests from the Infinite Staircase
observed Juliana and Orlando during their travels and knows they’ve spent a great deal of time talking with the Gardener, who lives in a cave across the lake (see area G20). G8: Bears’ Range A cave toward
and swimming in the lake with the giant otters (area G18). If the characters are respectful, the centaurs invite them inside for tea sweetened with honey. The bees are docile unless their hive is
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
bay, never swimming. They did not see the shipwreck during the storm, and know only the that the walkers came from the general direction of the Pit of Hatred. They eagerly give the characters directions
sea god. Books. A few of the works on the shelves deal with the worship of the sea god and date back to the original garrison, but most are later acquisitions brought by the hermits. By and large
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->The Wild Beyond the Witchlight
normal size at the end of the hall closest to area B10. Shrunken creatures have disadvantage on Strength checks and Strength saving throws, and their weapons deal 1d4 less damage at one-half to one
curse. If the characters were drawn to Prismeer by the “Warlock’s Quest” adventure hook, they can strike a different bargain with Bavlorna, but she won’t deal with anyone who claims to be searching for
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a6
a crude table drinking ale and discussing a plan to wipe out the rebel orcs in area 19. All these bugbears have longswords that deal 11 (2d8 + 2) slashing damage on a hit. All five are carrying 50 gp
spot to raise their young. The adults use the statistics for giant crocodiles, except that they have a climbing speed of 30 feet, no swimming speed, and darkvision out to a range of 60 feet. Their four
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
across the entrance.
The heavy chain raised and lowered by the winch in area K9 provides Rivergard’s defenders with the ability to block boats from entering or leaving. A swimming character can easily
K19 or K21, they quickly move to investigate and deal with any threat. K21. Lord’s Chambers A large semicircular room occupies the western half of this floor of the keep. Three narrow windows look
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Ghosts of Saltmarsh
Class is 13 (natural armor). He has a swimming speed of 30 feet, and he can hold his breath for 15 minutes. He has a Wisdom score of 18 (+4). His skills are Deception +7, Insight +6, Persuasion +7
the passages that deal with the sahuagin in the Monster Manual, omitting statistical details such as Armor Class, Hit Dice, and so forth, and inform the players that the rest follows in the same vein
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus
dank lower levels. Particularly problematic inmates end up in the Swimming Hole — a flooded and lightless shaft where prisoners must constantly tread water or risk drowning, while also fending off the
keep suspicion away from him, and he has to admit it’s a better deal than paying protection money himself. Water Queen’s House The oldest temple in Baldur’s Gate, the Water Queen’s House clings to its
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Baldur’s Gate Gazetteer
pacifies prisoners, as any who act out know that they can always be moved from the dry cells to the dank lower levels. Particularly problematic inmates end up in the Swimming Hole — a flooded and lightless
, and he has to admit it’s a better deal than paying protection money himself. Water Queen’s House The oldest temple in Baldur’s Gate, the Water Queen’s House clings to its enormous pier like a monster of
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tales from the Yawning Portal->a1
successful DC 10 Wisdom (Survival) check to pick up the trail again. Spiked Pit. The pit is 10 feet deep, and its bottom is filled with spikes that deal 11 (2d10) piercing damage to a creature that
sealing this chamber portrays a dragon-like fish swimming.
The door is locked but can be opened with thieves’ tools and a successful DC 20 Dexterity check. If the door is opened, read: This ten