Path of the Fin

 

Path of the Fin

Tribal communities exist all across the realms, in all manner of locales and climes.

While their customs often change, one steadfast certainty seen time and time again is the reverence for particular animals local to that tribe.

These are often wildly varied; northern tribes may revere the Wolf or the Bear, those of the deserts follow the Hawk or the Jackal, and those of the jungle may aspire to the Ape or the Tiger.

It is in this tradition that the Path of the Fin, island warriors capturing the bloodthirsty essence of the great Shark, arose.

Aquatic

Starting when you choose this path at 3rd level, you are permanently adapted to life underwater.

You can breathe water as well as air and have a swim speed equal to your walking speed.

Additionally, if you are swimming, your rage can’t end early, unless you choose to end it.

Feeding Frenzy

Unlike their land-locked brothers, fin barbarians undergo drastic physical transformations when they enter a rage.

At 3rd level, while raging, you sprout rows of razor-sharp shark teeth and gain a melee bite attack.
Your bite is a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes.

If you hit with it, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d8 + your Strength modifier instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.

When you hit a creature within 5 feet of you with a melee attack, you can use a bonus action to make a bite attack against that creature.
This attack has advantage if the creature has half its hit points or fewer.
You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (a minimum of once)
and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Starting at 6th level, your bite is considered magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Blood Sense

A fully grown shark can smell a single drop of blood in the water almost a mile away.

At 6th level, you gain an amazing sense of smell. You have advantage on all Intelligence (Investigation) and Wisdom (Perception) checks dealing with smell, and you can automatically track a single living creature whose scent you are familiar with as long as the trail is less than a week old.

By spending a minute concentrating, you can detect the scents of all living creatures in a 100-foot radius, or up to a mile in the water.

Tsunami

By 14th level, as a bonus action, you can conjure a magical wave of salt water that rises at your feet and glides beneath you.

The wave is up to 15 feet wide and 15 feet tall, and moves with you as you swim.

If a creature is caught up in the wave, it is forced to swim and hold its breath until it leaves the wave’s area or the wave moves away from it.
The wave extinguishes unprotected flames in its area.
The wave lasts for 1 minute, after which it spreads across the ground in all directions and quickly evaporates.

Once you use this ability, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.