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Message: <blockquote data-quote="steeldragons" data-source="post: 6289197" data-attributes="member: 92511">OO snap! The Kopru are fanTAStic old school baddies! I completely forget (as I so often do) about Aboleths...but yeah. Either is a great mastermind/way to get your PCs flustered with "who's the good guys and who's the bad guys?" since anyone can be under their control (if you do/like the whole psychic powers/telepathic control thing. If your PCs don't have a way to thwart this...or you don't put some way into your undersea world for them to, then forget them as it would just be a total TPK - or "TPD" Total Party Domination - as the case may be.)For your necro with the bloody-undead...yeah, real bad reeeeally bad idea in a reef environment. I would say, as long as they are with the party, the shark attacks would/should be CONSTANT! You'd be drawing sharks from MILES around! Maybe he'll have to learn/play/think creatively to work without them?There's also the complete possibility, you being the DM and all, that your merfolk could STILL be the baddies!Sure, maybe one or a few mermen are liking them, but the guys "in charge" maybe not so much? Whether they are controlled by aboleth, controlled/ intimidated/manipulated to evil by a dragon/aboleth/kopru/mad giant, or simply just greedy "bad guys" in themselves, wanting to keep the treasure of the sunken ships and/or "racist" against the "walkers/land-crawlers" ["wuddaya call em? Ah feet!" <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />] ...playing/luring the adventurers into a state of complacency.The smiling villain is always a fun way to go. Being told by the mer-chancellor that  "that hallway/room/wreck/section of reef/ocean is off limits" never leads to PCs prying their noses in where they don't belong (noooo, never!<img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devil.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":devil:" title="Devil    :devil:" data-shortname=":devil:" />)As for dragons, I would be inclined to make them blue...cuz I like blue oceanic dragons...can someone explain for me, please, why a dragon attributed to flying over the dessert has blue ont the top and yellow on the bottom?!?! Does it lie on its back in the sand to camouflage itself? When it's flying...no, of course you don't notice the yellow streak against the blue sky...ugh!Instead of a "line o' lightning" their breath is like a massive "fireball" effect...of electricity. Way nasty/unwanted underwater. Can also have them shoot "bubbles" of magic force to entrap the PCs. Borrow ye olde "Scaly Command" power (originally of the oriental dragons) to have them command sea life to their bidding.Draconic Aquaman for the win! Schools of small fish to slow/impede movement and eliminate vision. Electric eels for, well, more electrical damage. Giant squid or octopus for...well, GIANT SQUID [or octopus]! "Hey, we got rid of the bloody-undead! Where're all of these sharks coming from/know we're here?!" Giant barracuda, moray eels, poisonous spine-shooting magical-lionfish, all also nasty...OO! OO! An aquatic duplicate of a manticore, like a seacat/-lion and lionfish hybrid, with its tail and spine spikes shootable and poisonous!...[jots note to self]DAMMIT! I don't have time (at the mo) for an aquatic adventure. I REALLY want one now!</blockquote>

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