Size:
± Man-sized
Type:
± Humanoid
Form:
Temper:
# App:
± 0 (1-20)
Lair:
Diet:
Combat Dice:
± 0
Hit Points:
± 0
Attack Rank:
± 0
Passive Defense:
± 0
Active Defense:
Damage Reduction:
± 0
Role:
Ground:
± 120
Climb/Arboreal:
Flight:
Swim:
± 180'
Benthic:
Burrow:
Ethereal:
Actions/Abilities/Traits: BECMI
Actions/Abilities/Traits: BECMI
Action
1 weapon
By weapon
Actions/Abilities/Traits: BECMI
Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSE
Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSE
Action
weapon
1 * weapon (1d6 or by weapon)
Special
Weapons
Spears, tridents, or daggers.
Special
Leaders
For every 10 in a group, there is a 2HD leader. For every 50, there is a 4HD leader (saves: D10 W11 P12 B13 S14 (4)).
Special
Underwater villages
Home to 1d3 * 100 individuals.
Special
Guardians
Use trained sea creatures or monsters to guard their homes.
Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSE
Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSRIC
Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSRIC
Environments
Frequency:
Uncommon
aquatic-salt
Offense
1 Attack
Circumstance: Combat
By weapon
Treasure
Treasure: 1d12×1,000 cp (20%), 1d6×1,000 sp (30%), 1d4×1,000 ep (10%), 2d4×1,000 gp (40%), 1d6×1,000 pp (50%), 5d8 gems (55%), 1d12 jewellery (45%), 2 magic items (10%)
Special
Armament
Half armed with dagger and trident. Remainder split between crossbow and dagger; or net, javelin, and dagger. Mermen crossbows are identical in function to the sahuagin crossbow.
Special
Ship Attack
Grappling hook-equipped mermen (25% of trident-armed troops) surface and hurl grapples up to 30-ft. Hit on 1-9 on 1d10. Each successful grapple held by 10 mermen reduces ship speed by 30-ft per round. If grapple line cut, takes 10 mermen a round to regroup. Fire-based attacks cause double damage for one round. Motionless grappled ships pulled underwater in 4d4 rounds.
Special
Community Guards
Merfolk communities are guarded by 3d6 giant gar, bred and trained by the mermen for this purpose.
Special
Languages
Speak their own language, 50% speak locathah, and if the merfolk dwell near any other intelligent aquatic creatures at least 10% of the community will be able to speak that tongue as well.
Aquatic humanoids with human upper bodies and fish-like lower bodies that dwell in tropical seas
Mermen, or more properly "merfolk" according to the sages, are the inhabitants of oceans and seas in the warmer areas of the world being particularly fond of tropical seas. Mermen are much like rural humans, farming and harvesting vegetation on the ocean floor and hunting in the area around their settlements; they hunt for fish and other sea-going creatures. Merfolk have been known to herd certain fish, keeping them corralled in large, spherical netted seaweed pens in much the same way their human counterparts will herd cattle.
Merfolk tend to congregate in small communities, establishing their dwellings in reefs or underwater cliffs and tunnelling many rooms and passages into these natural structures. Rarely, mermen will construct dwellings of natural materials such as seashells, coral, rocks, and materials scavenged from sunken sailing vessels. The community will consist of roughly equal numbers of mermen, mermaids (as the female of the species is called), and younglings. These communities, no matter the location, will correspond to a human agricultural type community in many respects: there will be workshops, residences, pens for the food fish, and storage areas for the harvest
OSRIC
Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSRIC
Aquatic humanoids with fish tails in place of legs. Live in coastal waters, farming seaweed and hunting fish.
OSE
Aquatic humanoids with human upper bodies and fish-like lower bodies that dwell in tropical seas
Mermen, or more properly "merfolk" according to the sages, are the inhabitants of oceans and seas in the warmer areas of the world being particularly fond of tropical seas. Mermen are much like rural humans, farming and harvesting vegetation on the ocean floor and hunting in the area around their settlements; they hunt for fish and other sea-going creatures. Merfolk have been known to herd certain fish, keeping them corralled in large, spherical netted seaweed pens in much the same way their human counterparts will herd cattle.
Merfolk tend to congregate in small communities, establishing their dwellings in reefs or underwater cliffs and tunnelling many rooms and passages into these natural structures. Rarely, mermen will construct dwellings of natural materials such as seashells, coral, rocks, and materials scavenged from sunken sailing vessels. The community will consist of roughly equal numbers of mermen, mermaids (as the female of the species is called), and younglings. These communities, no matter the location, will correspond to a human agricultural type community in many respects: there will be workshops, residences, pens for the food fish, and storage areas for the harvest
OSRIC
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