Sea Otter

Your sea otter character has a variety of abilities that come with being a sea otter!

• Ability Score Increase: Your Wisdom score increases by 2.
  
• Age: While no one is quite sure how long an awakened animal (of any species) lives for, sea otters typically reach adulthood around 2 to 3 years old and live to be about 23 to 25 years old.
  
• Alignment: Sea otters are mostly content to spend their days foraging for food and lounging about with their friends, which is the epitome of being neutral. While they can be provoked one way or another, you’ll find that their alignment does tend towards being right smack in the middle of that true neutral ground.
  
• Size: Sea Otters average around 4 feet in height, approximately. Your size is Small.
  
• Speed: Your base walking speed is 30 feet, and you have a swimming speed of 40 feet.
  
• Barrel Roll: If you were to encounter a sea otter while in the water, you might find yourself at a disadvantage. That is to say, sea otters gain advantage on attempts to grapple opponents when in the water as they attempt to roll their opponents beneath the water’s surface...to wash them. If they can’t breathe water that really seems like their problem, right?
  
• Hold Breath: You can hold your breath for 10 minutes. Makeshift Tools: While you might see a simple rock, a sea otter sees a hammer or a chisel for prying another tasty treat from its captive shell. As such, sea otters have proficiency with improvised weapons as they can readily assess and determine the most effective way to yield unusual items. You gain a +1 bonus to damage with improvised weapons, increasing by 1 at level 5, 11, and 17.
• Territorial: Sea otters might spend time in packs with others, but they are generally loners and fiercely protective of the territory they have claimed. You have advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks to notice enemies approaching.
  
• Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common and speak Otter—a language of chirps, squeals, other sounds, and body language, known only to sea otters.
  

Standard Racial Traits

• Ability Score Modifiers:
  • Otter characters gain a +2 racial bonus to Dexterity, and +2 to Wisdom. (2 RP)
  • Sea Otters gain +2 to Strength and +2 to Wisdom. (2 RP)
    
• Type: Otters are the Animal type. (2 RP)
  
• Size: 
  • Otters are Tiny creatures, and gain a +2 size bonus to Dexterity and a –2 size penalty to Strength. Tiny races gain a +2 size bonus to their AC, a +2 size bonus on attack rolls, a –2 penalty on combat maneuver checks and to their CMD, and a +8 size bonus on Stealth checks. Tiny characters take up a space of 2-1/2 feet by 2-1/2 feet, so up to four of these characters can fit into a single square. Tiny races typically have a natural reach of 0 feet, meaning they can’t reach into adjacent squares. They must enter an opponent’s square to attack it in melee. This provokes an attack of opportunity from the opponent. Since they have no natural reach, they do not threaten the squares around them. Other creatures can move through those squares without provoking attacks of opportunity. Tiny creatures typically cannot flank an enemy. (4 RP)
  • Sea Otters are Small creatures and gain a +1 size bonus to their AC, a +1 size bonus on attack rolls, a –1 penalty on combat maneuver checks and to their CMD, and a +4 size bonus on Stealth checks. Small races have a space of 5 feet by 5 feet and a reach of 5 feet. (0 RP)
    
• Base Speed:
  • Otters have a base speed of 20 feet and a swim speed of 30 ft. (1 RP)
  • Sea otters have a base speed of 30 ft and a swim speed of 40 ft. (3 RP)
    
• Languages: Otters speak Otter and one extra language of your choice. Otter is a language of chirps, squeals, other sounds, and body language, known only to sea otters. Otters with high Intelligence scores can learn any languages they want (except Druidic and other secret languages). Do note that as creatures of the Animal type, if they learn languages spoken by humanoids, they are physically incapable of speaking those languages without some sort of magical aid. (1 RP)
  

Offense Racial Traits

• Bite: Otters gain a primary bite attack that deals damage according to their size. (1 RP)
• Drowner. Otters gain a +4 racial bonus on combat maneuver checks to grapple an opponent in the water. (1 RP)
  

Senses Racial Traits

• Low-Light Vision. Otters can see twice as far as humans in conditions of dim light. (1 RP)
  

Other Traits:

• Hold Breath: Otters can hold their breath for a number of rounds equal to four times their Constitution score before risking drowning or suffocating. (1 RP)
  
• Quadruped: Otters walk on all fours and have no arms - much less thumbs - with which to use weapons. Otters gain a +4 racial bonus to CMD against trip attempts, and  take a -4 penalty with man-made weapons, even ones they are trained in, unless they take a Weapon Focus feat. (0 RP)