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Spells
Player’s Handbook
A frigid globe streaks from you to a point of your choice within range, where it explodes in a 60-foot-radius Sphere. Each creature in that area makes a Constitution saving throw, taking 10d6 Cold
minute. Creatures that were swimming on the surface of frozen water are trapped in the ice and have the Restrained condition. A trapped creature can take an action to make a Strength (Athletics) check
Magic Items
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
cold damage.
Blessing of the Deep. If you are a worshiper of Thassa, you gain all the following benefits for which you have the required piety:
Piety 10+. You can breathe underwater, and you gain a
swimming speed of 60 feet.
Piety 25+. The bident has 1 randomly determined minor beneficial property.
Piety 50+. The bident has 1 randomly determined major beneficial property.
If you aren’t a
Monsters
Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse
below.
Black Guard Drake. The drake can breathe air and water, has a swimming speed of 30 feet, and has resistance to acid damage.
Blue Guard Drake. The drake has a burrowing speed of 20 feet and
resistance to lightning damage.
Green Guard Drake. The drake can breathe air and water, has a swimming speed of 30 feet, and has resistance to poison damage.
Red Guard Drake. The drake has climbing speed
Monsters
Mythic Odysseys of Theros
especially resilient, gaining resistance to cold and fire damage.
2
Coast Creature. The chimera’s body is that of a coastal or aquatic creature, such as a heron or a shark. The chimera
gains a swimming speed equal to its walking speed and can breathe air and water.
3
Mountain Creature. The chimera’s body is that of a mountain-dwelling creature, such as a ram or a dragon
feats
Constitution score (rounded up to the nearest 5 feet). If you already have a swimming speed, it instead increases by 10 feet.
You triple your Constitution modifier when calculating how long you can hold your breath.
You gain resistance to cold damage.
You have undergone extensive underwater training. You gain the following benefits:
Increase your Constitution score by 1, to a maximum of 20.
You gain a swimming speed equal to twice your
Freezing Sphere
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Spells
Basic Rules (2014)
A frigid globe of cold energy streaks from your fingertips to a point of your choice within range, where it explodes in a 60-foot-radius sphere. Each creature within the area must make a Constitution
saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 10d6 cold damage. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage.
If the globe strikes a body of water or a liquid that is principally water (not
Otiluke's Freezing Sphere
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Spells
Player’s Handbook (2014)
A frigid globe of cold energy streaks from your fingertips to a point of your choice within range, where it explodes in a 60-foot-radius sphere. Each creature within the area must make a Constitution
saving throw. On a failed save, a creature takes 10d6 cold damage. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage.
If the globe strikes a body of water or a liquid that is principally water (not
Leviathan
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Monsters
Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes
Legendary Resistance (3/Day). If the leviathan fails a saving throw, it can choose to succeed instead.
Partial Freeze. If the leviathan takes 50 cold damage or more during a single turn, the
reduced by 1d10;{"diceNotation":"1d10","rollType":"roll"}. When the wall reaches 0 feet in height, the effect ends.
A creature caught in the wall can move by swimming. Because of the force of the wave
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide
Deep Water Swimming through deep water (more than 100 feet deep) presents additional challenges because of the water’s pressure and cold temperature. After each hour of swimming in deep water, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
Deep Water Swimming through deep water (more than 100 feet deep) presents additional challenges because of the water’s pressure and cold temperature. After each hour of swimming in deep water, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
snowy owlbear uses the owlbear stat block in the Monster Manual. In addition, it has a swimming speed of 30 feet and is acclimated to cold weather.
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dragon Delves
Lair Features Unless otherwise specified, Challidax’s lair has the following features. Ceilings Ceilings throughout the lair are 25 feet high in passages and 35 feet high in caves. Extreme Cold All
areas in the lair are subject to extreme cold (see the Dungeon Master’s Guide). Freezing River A subterranean river flows through several areas in Challidax’s lair (D16, D11, D10, and D5) before
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Dungeon Master’s Guide (2014)
cold temperature. For a creature without a swimming speed, each hour spent swimming at a depth greater than 100 feet counts as 2 hours for the purpose of determining exhaustion. Swimming for an hour
contains something of value; roll treasure randomly using the tables in chapter 7) Swimming Unless aided by magic, a character can’t swim for a full 8 hours per day. After each hour of swimming, a
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mythic Odysseys of Theros
rolls made with it. When you hit with an attack using the bident, the target takes an extra 2d10 cold damage. Blessing of the Deep. If you are a worshiper of Thassa, you gain all the following benefits
for which you have the required piety: Piety 10+. You can breathe underwater, and you gain a swimming speed of 60 feet. Piety 25+. The bident has 1 randomly determined minor beneficial property
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Triton Traits As a triton, you have the following racial traits. Creature Type. You are a Humanoid. Size. You are Medium. Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed equal to
only as shades of gray. Emissary of the Sea. You can communicate simple ideas to any Beast, Elemental, or Monstrosity that has a swimming speed. It can understand your words, though you have no special
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player's Handbook (2014)
Otiluke’s Freezing Sphere 6th-level evocation Casting Time: 1 action Range: 300 feet Components: V, S, M (a small crystal sphere) Duration: Instantaneous A frigid globe of cold energy streaks from
takes 10d6 cold damage. On a successful save, it takes half as much damage. If the globe strikes a body of water or a liquid that is principally water (not including water-based creatures), it freezes
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Player’s Handbook
streaks from you to a point of your choice within range, where it explodes in a 60-foot-radius Sphere. Each creature in that area makes a Constitution saving throw, taking 10d6 Cold damage on failed save
were swimming on the surface of frozen water are trapped in the ice and have the Restrained condition. A trapped creature can take an action to make a Strength (Athletics) check against your spell
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
meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return. Guardians of the Depths. Adapted to even the most extreme ocean depths, you have resistance to cold damage
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->D&D Beyond Basic Rules
frigid globe streaks from you to a point of your choice within range, where it explodes in a 60-foot-radius Sphere. Each creature in that area makes a Constitution saving throw, taking 10d6 Cold
. Creatures that were swimming on the surface of frozen water are trapped in the ice and have the Restrained condition. A trapped creature can take an action to make a Strength (Athletics) check
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Volo's Guide to Monsters
the special features described below.
Black Guard Drake. A black guard drake is amphibious (it can breathe air or water), has a swimming speed of 30 feet, and has resistance to acid damage.
Blue
Guard Drake. A blue guard drake has a burrowing speed of 20 feet and resistance to lightning damage.
Green Guard Drake. A green guard drake is amphibious (it can breathe air or water), has a swimming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
. Size. You are Medium. Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed. Child of the Sea. You can breathe air and water, and you have resistance to cold
communicate simple ideas to any Beast that has a swimming speed. It can understand your words, though you have no special ability to understand it in return. Keen Senses. You have proficiency in the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Monsters of the Multiverse
Guard Drake. The drake can breathe air and water, has a swimming speed of 30 feet, and has resistance to acid damage.
Blue Guard Drake. The drake has a burrowing speed of 20 feet and resistance to
lightning damage.
Green Guard Drake. The drake can breathe air and water, has a swimming speed of 30 feet, and has resistance to poison damage.
Red Guard Drake. The drake has climbing speed of 30
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dragon Heist
of steam onto the docks in a 30-foot cube, then begins to move away at a swimming speed of 20 feet. Any creature in the cloud of steam must make a DC 14 Dexterity saving throw, taking 22 (4d10) fire
more to the bottom of Deepwater Harbor. If the drow are still on its back when it goes down, they swim the rest of the way to the Eyecatcher but gain two levels of exhaustion from the cold water and
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything
Bigby’s hand (appears as a tentacle), cone of cold Human Warlock of the Fathomless Tentacle of the Deeps 1st-level Fathomless feature You can magically summon a spectral tentacle that strikes at your
you create the tentacle, you can make a melee spell attack against one creature within 10 feet of it. On a hit, the target takes 1d8 cold damage, and its speed is reduced by 10 feet until the start
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Fizban's Treasury of Dragons
)
DEX
12 (+1)
CON
29 (+9)
INT
14 (+2)
WIS
19 (+4)
CHA
15 (+2)
Saving Throws Dex +8, Con +16, Wis +11
Skills Perception +11
Damage Immunities cold
. The dragon turtle makes one Claw or Tail attack.
Move. The dragon turtle moves up to its speed. If the dragon turtle is swimming, this movement doesn’t provoke opportunity attacks.
Boiling Aura
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes
Freeze. If the leviathan takes 50 cold damage or more during a single turn, the leviathan partially freezes; until the end of its next turn, its speeds are reduced to 20 feet, and it makes attack rolls
the wall reaches 0 feet in height, the effect ends.
A creature caught in the wall can move by swimming. Because of the force of the wave, though, the creature must make a successful DC 24 Strength
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Xanathar's Guide to Everything
being worn or carried by anyone else and set it on fire. Sea. You gain resistance to lightning damage, and you can breathe underwater. You also gain a swimming speed of 30 feet. Tundra. You gain
resistance to cold damage, and you don’t suffer the effects of extreme cold, as described in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Moreover, as an action, you can touch water and turn a 5-foot cube of it into ice
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
(an arcane focus) and a leather-bound spellbook that belong to Marta Moonshadow (see area 5d). The book contains the following spells: chromatic orb, cone of cold, counterspell, detect magic, dispel
appear to be swimming upstream, away from the basin. Close examination of these carvings reveals that the fish can be rotated. The first time all the fish are turned so that they appear to be swimming
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage
from water, such as a fire elemental, takes 11 (2d10) cold damage when it starts its turn in a watery curtain or enters it for the first time on a turn. If a watery curtain takes 50 cold damage or
swarms of quippers.
Walls. The damp walls have harmless snails and giant starfish clinging to them.
The marid, Ichthyglug, is swimming in his pool when the characters first arrive. He greets them
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 Depths. Adapted to even the most extreme ocean depths, you have resistance to cold damage. Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and Primordial. Spell: Wall of Water
3rd-level evocation
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden
Getting the Quest The lake around the creaky docks is frozen, forcing fishers to pull their rowboats up onto the ice. Standing between a pair of boats is a stout humanoid in cold weather clothing. A
dock. Another figure covered head to toe in cold weather clothing has joined you. The figure wags a gloved finger at the frosty-bearded dwarf. “You have no honor, Berylbore!” the newcomer yells
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
Perception 10
Languages Common
Challenge 3 (700 XP)
Bonded Mount. The knight is magically bound to a beast with an innate swimming speed trained to serve as its mount. While mounted on this beast
fathomer gains a swimming speed of 40 feet, the ability to breathe underwater, immunity to poison damage, as well as resistance to fire damage and bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Storm King's Thunder
with a remove curse spell or similar magic, the afflicted creature has vulnerability to cold damage. This curse negates any resistance or immunity to cold damage the creature might otherwise possess. 4B
pay. If she spots any party members, she crawls out of the bell’s cold confines and rushes forth to destroy them, thinking they have come to plunder her hoard (area 4H). She prefers to lurk among the
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Candlekeep Mysteries
pulses with arcane and elemental energy, filling the room with whipping winds and biting cold. Standing next to the crystal is a water genasi with turquoise skin and blue robes. He is guarded by a
, Primordial, Sahuagin, and Undercommon. He has 144 hit points, resistance to acid damage, a swimming speed of 30 feet, and the ability to breathe air and water. He has prepared the conjure elemental
Compendium
- Sources->Dungeons & Dragons->Princes of the Apocalypse
fane. Two water weirds lurk in the pool and guard the area for the cult. They attack anyone approaching the water who fails to give the water cult’s hand sign. The pool is 20 feet deep. Swimming in the
pool requires DC 10 Strength (Athletics) checks due to the swirling currents. Any creature that fails such a check is swept into the stream. The stream is 4 feet deep, cold, and swift. Any creature