TO BE CLEAR (since our jokes apparently confused people!) this race is NOT gendered! Just wanted to make sure there were subraces with lots of different ~vibes~.
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“Mermaids: for men” sounds like a 3 in 1 conditioner, and I love it.

draws picture of sexy seal man
"Okay put me back in the closet now"

That was 100% on purpose and I love it🤣🤣🤣

I am a completely straight, cis male, and even I want to be a mermaid because being able to live underwater is cool and they're pretty

I LOVE this. An idea, if the Merfolk character dies in combat, the party LOSES their water-breathing.
Making that character a core aspect of underwater adventure, and feeling like the center focus in a meaningful, thematic way that doesn’t step on the toes of other players

ginny: why cant i play a mermaid
triton: am i a joke to you
yes, yes you are

Fun fact: pathfinder recently released a merfolk ancestry and its super cool. You can enchant people with magical singing or bite them with shark-like jaws. And yes, you can do both.

Gotta be honest, the official stat block for the D&D wheelchair, made me want to play a merfolk who refuses to transform their tail into legs.

I've always wanted to play a merfolk who gets around on land NOT with magic legs and NOT with some special wheelchair, but instead with the power of MARTIAL ARTS. I think a fish lady scooting up to someone and beating the crap out of them with her bare hands is hilarious!

"What kind of merfolk would men like?"
Ripjaws from ben 10. Tidal Merfolk works alright for this

I had an NPC based on Ariel in my first campaign. She was a Feylost Simic Hybrid Fathomless Warlock. The idea was that she was a mermaid that got trapped in the Feywild, made a deal with her patron, Ursula, to escape, and now serves as Ursula’s errand-girl until she pays off her debt. To facilitate this, her tail was swapped for legs, and she has tentacle hair (her Feylost trait). She can extend her hair to grab things and help her climb (her Simic Hybrid traits).
I included her as an intended rival for my friend’s Fairy character, because I knew she liked the movie. What I didn’t expect was that the two would start flirting because my friend liked the pairing so much. Oh well, roll with the dice you’re given, right?

Honestly, as a disabled ttrpg player, the idea of a mermaid traversing the land in a wheelchair or something similar is very fun to me. Happy disability pride month everyone ❤

Shark mermaid man is the power fantasy we all want

The lore implications of the Ginny Di universe when we learn Pointy Hat just... LIVES IN HER CLOSET, APPARENTLY.

As a man who wrote his master thesis on mermaids and sirens this speaks to me on a special level. LOVE all variants.
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Not that it should matter, but I'm bi leaning more for guys.

The PointyHat portion was perfectly interrupted with an ad featuring Jeff Goldblum, and I honestly didn't catch that it was an ad for an embarrassing amount of time

3:50 I'm not quite sure why but when you said "victorian style mermaid tanks" I thought of military tanks so I just pictured a merperson driving through a small Victorian village in a full on armored tank

Ngl, I love going by flavor of Luca. There's no downsides to being out of water, but the fish traits go away when they are dry and they look like humans until they get water dumped on them again. Sure, people know about them but if a specific merfolk that wants to blend in, that's a perfect way... just they also have a tail to swim with this.

Also wanted to add my two cents about the Water Breathing argument presented by Ginny in the video. In campaigns that do involve going underwater, the campaign book or the DM would then hand out water breathing magic items from air bubbles or potion/scroll of water breathing anyway. So having a character that has a feature for that doesn't break a setting's main obstacle at all.

Nice skit as usual! Pointy Hat emerging and then being shoved back into a dusty cupboard was really funny 😂

That brief mention of Selkies reminded me of a very old character I had.  I basically just played a human with webbed digits, but her entire motivation to adventure was based on Selkie folklore.  Doffed her Seal skin for a fisherman, he stole it and sold it to a traveling merchant.  Instead of just being his captive wife, I killed him, then set off to find my skin.  Any town we went to, I'd check pawn shops, hunting lodges, collectors,  anywhere a rare animal skin might end up.  I adventured for money, so I could pay investigators (who frequently scammed me).