Barbarian – choose the path of the aquatic hunter.Don’t forget about the Sailor background. I have also included some quick ways to get an aquatic flavor right out of the Player’s Handbook for classes Rich has not covered. Rich Howard (one of our authors) has created some D&D 5th edition class builds on his personal blog. Aquatic Hero Classes & Races PC CLASS OPTIONS In a future article, we’ll look at all the aquatic monsters out there. Wereshark (Pathfinder stats) – This lycanthrope has a human body and head of a shark with all its razor-like teeth.
The entries in the Monster Manual for some of the monsters are so detailed that you can build a session or mini campaign around just a set of them like the Koa-Toa and Sahuagin.
These monsters include everything from Kuo-Toa to the mighty Kraken and ideas on how to use them. Aquatic Monster Racesīack in October I wrote an article on 10 Awesome Monsters for a D&D 5e Aquatic Encounter that appear in the D&D 5e Monster Manual. If you are looking to run some aquatic fun, hopefully these notes will be helpful. My groups spends most of their time above the surface of the sea, but there is plenty of fun to be had down below too (and we’ll get there soon). For this week’s Nautical Nonsense column I wanted to gather up all the aquatic monster races and hero races in one handy list that I draw on for my campaign. I run a weekly game D&D 5e game in a seafaring setting called Vodari.