The 3.X Aquatic Database

[Aeolius]

Wierd that the Sea Serpent thread is now found in 4e rules.

Perhaps that means we need a NEW Sea Serpent thread?

 

[Voadam]

I re-read the sea monster one from the beginning and it makes sense that it is in 4e rules.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I can't believe I missed this before...

I'm currently watching a re-re-rebroadcast of Squid Invasion, about the Humboldt Squid.

Discovery Channel Squid Invasion

They're 100-200lb squid, with beaks the size of your fist, capable of reaching speeds of 20mph in the water, and pretty damn intelligent.

One of the divers talks about nearly losing his arm to one...

 

[Aeolius]

Imagine a swarm of them as a Hivemind.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

How about as a marine sub-species of Illithids?

 

[Aeolius]

I had one of those in my last game; the sea flayers - an experiment with aboleth science upon a larval mind flayer before implantation into a human host. The end result was not unlike an aquatic mind flayer with the skin patterns of a blue-ring octopus.

I devised them as a foil for the krakidan, a human/kraken crossbreed created when a female human slave bathes in a ceremonial pool previously "prepared" by the kraken and later gives birth to the hybrid.

Did I mention that a player has a baby kraken character...sorta.... in my current game?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

"Hi! My name is Carl O'Mari."

 

[Aeolius]

Two more for the list:

PC Nereid ECL/LA Issues
Best Undersea Supplements

 

[Aeolius]

This puts it all in perspective: Mariana Trench

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Nice link!