Hippocampus

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Hippocampus

Hippocampus

HD: d10

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Fort Save	Ref Save	Will Save	Special
1st	+1	+2	+2	+2	Hippocampus Body, Sea Steed, +2 Str, +2 Con, -2 Int
2nd	+2	+3	+3	+3	Growth, Bite, +1 Str, +1 Con

Skills: 2+Int modifier per level (x4 at 1st level. Class Skills: Balance, Climb, Intimidate, Jump, Listen, Move Silently, Sense Motive, Spot, Swim

Proficiencies: Its own natural weapons only.

Class Features:
Hippocampus Body: The Hippocampus loses all other racial bonus and gains Magical Beast traits (basically darkvision 60 feet and low-light vision) plus the Aquatic Subtype. It's a medium sized Magical Beast with swim speed 40 feet. It has a tail slap attack dealing 1d4+Str mod damage

The Hippocampus also gains a bonus to Nat armor equal to its Con mod.

Sea Steed: An Hippocampus counts as 1 level lower for the purpose of being a Cohort/companion/similar as long as the "owner"  has ride as a class skill with max ranks and one size smaller. An Hippocampus with cohort/companion/similar may count them as one level lower for control limits as long as they're able to ride the Hippocampus and have Ride as a class skill with max ranks.


Ability Score Increase: The Hippocampus gains +2 Str, +2 Con, -2 Int at first level, plus +1 Str and +1 Con at 2nd level, for a total of +3 Str, +3 Con, -2 Int at 2nd level.

Growth: At 2nd level the  Hippocampus grows one size category, gaining +1 Nat armor and +10 to its swim speed.

Bite: At 2nd level the  Hippocampus gains a Bite secondary natural attack dealing 1d4 damage for large size.

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Sea Speed[/b]
Some Hippocampus have the ability to turn their
Prerequisite: Hippocampus Body class feature.
Benefit: When going into dry land from a large body of water, the Hippocampus can move at such speed that some of the water trails behind, allowing it to keep using its Swim speed and have no breathing problems as long as it keeps moving at least 5 feet every turn. It can keep this going for a number of hours equal to HD+Con mod. If stopped, it can still crawl on land at a base speed of 10 feet.

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Working on that waiting list, one monster at a time.

The Hippocampus is short and simple. Two levels, growth, some incentive for being used as a steed (or getting a rider of their own), feat to work on land, done.

Trivia, but it always amuses me that real-world Hippocampus are actually competing for the spot of slowest creatures of the sea. Even snails are rocket racers compared to them.

So if you want to play a big sea horse, the Hippocampus for you!