You have eight limbs, all equally capable of movement. Holding or wielding weapons, shields, or other items have the following effects, based upon how many tentacles are being occupied (Two-handed weapons occupy two tentacles.)

0 -- Speed + 10

1, 2, 3, 4 -- no effect

5, 6 -- Speed - 10

7, 8 -- Speed - 20

Your Intelligence increases by 2, and your Dexterity increases by 1.

Octopi reach maturity at five years of age and can live as old as 30.

Octopi have malleable dimensions but must be at least one inch thick at the beak and can stretch no more than fifteen feet from tentacle tip to tentacle tip. Your size is Medium.

Your base walking speed is 10 feet, you have a climbing speed of 10 feet, and you have a swimming speed of 40 feet.

You can only breathe water. Spending 10 x CON mod minutes outside of water (minimum 5 minutes) will cause you to take one point of exhaustion.

You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you 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.

Aquatic beasts have an extraordinary affinity with your people. You can communicate simple ideas with beasts that can breathe water. They can understand the meaning of your words, though you have no special ability to understand them in return.

Adapted to even the most extreme ocean depths, you have resistance to cold damage.

You can speak, read, and write Common and Primordial.