Stingrays don’t mean to be lethal—but in self-defense, they
certainly can be. Manta rays
meanwhile, are majestic creatures that make ideal animal companions for aquatic
creatures or even water-loving PCs.
Advanced specimens might even get a glide speed or a Flyby Attack, given
their propensity for leaping into the air.
A party of
adventurers awakens stranded on a sandbar, stripped of their armor and with
the tide coming in. The beach is
only 50 yards away…but even the most cursory examination reveals crossing the
water between means crossing the spawning ground for hundreds of irritable
stingrays. And how did the
adventurers get here? Were they
shipwrecked? Shanghaied? Or is this only the first challenge of
some dark game?
Not brave enough to
attack human fishers and sailors themselves, shoal goblins spook manta rays
into slamming into the men. The
goblins then set upon those knocked down or borne into the water.
Mako is an undine
rogue who specializing boring holes into and otherwise sabotaging ships,
making them vulnerable to sinking and salvage later. Following the call of his watery nature has given him just
enough druidic training to attract a stingray companion, who serves as a guard
should anyone try to sneak up on Mako as he works.
—Pathfinder Bestiary 2
232
Okay, I’m weeks
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