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Message: <blockquote data-quote="frankthedm" data-source="post: 5738831" data-attributes="member: 1164">If he chose to hold his breath when it was a lungful of water and decides to wait out the spell when he could have been breathing air, I think it would be good thing for the character to die.Except it is not air or anything remotely breathable anymore. Breath out the water, breath in the air, while you have the spell going, that’s within the character’s options since they can breath water freely. The devs only left us with the text of “The transmuted creatures can breathe water freely.”  &“The spell does not make creatures unable to breathe air.” to figure out their motives. To me “breath water freely” seems straightforward enough, water can go in just like it was air, but VERY dangerous should the ability be lost suddenly.  IMHO just because something is dangerous if it gets dispelled, doesn’t mean the spell need some “round the corners off the kitchen table” safety feature.  The analogy doesn’t work, Water breathing’s effect matches it’s name closely, “The transmuted creatures can breathe water freely.”,  Stone skin’s effect doesn’t, “The warded creature gains resistance to blows, cuts, stabs, and slashes. The subject gains damage reduction 10/adamantine.”That doesn’t happen since while the spell is going the spell recipient can breath both water and air freely,  and so has every option to breath the water out. Why yes, it would be prudent to breath the water out each opportunity. The water is being breathed.You don’t have to, but with the spell up you have your options open.What is there to concede? That IMO the simplest way to read the spell is very dangerous to the recipient if it gets dispelled? I'll agree Patryn of Elvenshae's "You grow gills" is a better way to run the spell.>>>>>>>>>All that said, anyone remember the drowning attacks effects of the 3e Nereid and or Drowned Zombie? IIRC both of those had very dangerous lungs fill with water effect.</blockquote>

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