Homebrew Fishman - Frog Species Details

As a fishman, you have the following traits.

Ability Score Increase. One ability score of your choice increases by 2, and another one increases by 1. Alternatively, three ability scores of your choice increase by 1.

Age. Fishmen reach adulthood in their late teens and live as long as humans.

Alignment. Fishmen display extremes on the moral scales, with good-aligned fishmen typically being chaotic good with a great emphasis on personal freedom, while evil-aligned fishmen tend towards lawful evil with the ideals that their superior physique means they should rule over other races.

Size. Fishmen vary greatly in size and typically stand taller than humans at 7-8 feet up to 15 feet. Your size is medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Aquatic Adaption. You can breathe air and water. You have advantage on all Strength (Athletic) ability checks made while in water.

Darkvision. Accustomed to the dark ocean floors where light is scarce, you have darkvision out to 60 feet and can see in dim light as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Powerful Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift.

Speech of the Sea. You can communicate simple ideas and words to creatures with a natural swimming speed that are of large size or smaller. Most sealife lack the ability to form or understand complicated messages, but can communicate simple expressions such as fear, hunger or joy.

Subraces. Choose between sharptooth, stronghide or multipod.

Fishman - Frog Traits

Ten times stronger than the common man and undisputed monarchs of the sea, the fishmen of the world oceans were for the longest time the boogeymen of sailors everywhere. Tall and proud warriors of the deep, the fishmen share a troubled history of racial discrimination and slavery at the hands of humans, scars that even centuries of peace with the surface world has yet to completely mend. A lot of the prejudice against them stem from how they differ from humans, looking monstrous to the common man because of their half-fish, half-human physiology, but also because of their renowned physical superiority and ability to fight as well on land as in water. Despite their fearsome reputation as pirates and marauders, the fishmen are not a simple or militaristic race of savages that many humans believe them to be. A fishman dedicated to a crew or a cause tends to be loyal to a fault, willing to fight to the bitter end for what they believe in.