Menu
News
All News
Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
Pathfinder
Starfinder
Warhammer
2d20 System
Year Zero Engine
Industry News
Reviews
Dragon Reflections
Columns
Weekly Digests
Weekly News Digest
Freebies, Sales & Bundles
RPG Print News
RPG Crowdfunding News
Game Content
ENterplanetary DimENsions
Mythological Figures
Opinion
Worlds of Design
Peregrine's Next
RPG Evolution
Other Columns
From the Freelancing Frontline
Monster ENcyclopedia
WotC/TSR Alumni Look Back
4 Hours w/RSD (Ryan Dancey)
The Road to 3E (Jonathan Tweet)
Greenwood's Realms (Ed Greenwood)
Drawmij's TSR (Jim Ward)
Community
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Resources
Wiki
Pages
Latest activity
Media
New media
New comments
Search media
Downloads
Latest reviews
Search resources
EN Publishing
Store
EN5ider
Adventures in ZEITGEIST
Awfully Cheerful Engine
What's OLD is NEW
Judge Dredd & The Worlds Of 2000AD
War of the Burning Sky
Level Up: Advanced 5E
Events & Releases
Upcoming Events
Private Events
Featured Events
Socials!
Twitch
YouTube
Facebook (EN Publishing)
Facebook (EN World)
Twitter
Instagram
TikTok
Podcast
Features
Top 5 RPGs Compiled Charts 2004-Present
Adventure Game Industry Market Research Summary (RPGs) V1.0
Ryan Dancey: Acquiring TSR
Q&A With Gary Gygax
D&D Rules FAQs
TSR, WotC, & Paizo: A Comparative History
D&D Pronunciation Guide
Million Dollar TTRPG Kickstarters
Tabletop RPG Podcast Hall of Fame
Eric Noah's Unofficial D&D 3rd Edition News
D&D in the Mainstream
D&D & RPG History
About Morrus
Log in
Register
What's new
Search
Search
Search titles only
By:
Forums & Topics
Forum List
Latest Posts
Forum list
*Dungeons & Dragons
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition
D&D Older Editions
*TTRPGs General
*Pathfinder & Starfinder
EN Publishing
*Geek Talk & Media
Search forums
Chat/Discord
Menu
Log in
Register
Install the app
Install
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Mer-giants
JavaScript is disabled. For a better experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser before proceeding.
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an
alternative browser
.
Reply to thread
Message
<blockquote data-quote="Blue" data-source="post: 8107101" data-attributes="member: 20564"><p>I had a flooding world homebrew campaign I was going to run that went on pandemic hiatus right after Session 0. It's now many months later, two of the players have changed characters, and my initial thoughts for campaign arcs are no longer as shiny, especially with the character changes.</p><p></p><p>So we were having a informal and imprompt new session 0, all of us just brainstorming, and got to talking about merfolk. One of the players mentioned that they'd love to see ones of different sizes. Which got me thinking about instead of just scaling up and down, but actually making D&D giants (a rather unique bunch of tribes) into merfolk, with corresponding larger fish. (But no whales - they're mammals.)</p><p></p><p>Quick brainstorming had storm giants possibly as "Turbulence Merfolk" and Cloud Giants as "Whirlpool Merfolk", but what about the lesser giants? Steamfolk?</p><p></p><p>And equally as important, what cool D&D-specific fish (or other underwater dwellers) should each be paired with for their mer-half?</p><p></p><p>(As a side note, I'm already planning on Frost Giants on glaciers invading as a later campaign event, so while there could be a natural fit there, Frost Giant merfolk are the least interesting to me.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue, post: 8107101, member: 20564"] I had a flooding world homebrew campaign I was going to run that went on pandemic hiatus right after Session 0. It's now many months later, two of the players have changed characters, and my initial thoughts for campaign arcs are no longer as shiny, especially with the character changes. So we were having a informal and imprompt new session 0, all of us just brainstorming, and got to talking about merfolk. One of the players mentioned that they'd love to see ones of different sizes. Which got me thinking about instead of just scaling up and down, but actually making D&D giants (a rather unique bunch of tribes) into merfolk, with corresponding larger fish. (But no whales - they're mammals.) Quick brainstorming had storm giants possibly as "Turbulence Merfolk" and Cloud Giants as "Whirlpool Merfolk", but what about the lesser giants? Steamfolk? And equally as important, what cool D&D-specific fish (or other underwater dwellers) should each be paired with for their mer-half? (As a side note, I'm already planning on Frost Giants on glaciers invading as a later campaign event, so while there could be a natural fit there, Frost Giant merfolk are the least interesting to me.) [/QUOTE]
Insert quotes…
Verification
Post reply
Community
General Tabletop Discussion
*Dungeons & Dragons
Mer-giants
Top