Beast of the Sea: Totally Unusable

[Foxhound438]

I’m not sure what problem there is with a “land” speed of 5ft? What kind of “aquatic” creature do you want to hangout with on land?

People keep wanting this, but I can't think of a single animal that would actually fit as a justification for this.

as per my original post, giant crab.

I'm honestly confused why so many people seem set on comparing sea and lan beast on the assumption that you'll still be having most of your adventuring day on land. If that's the assumption you're running under, why take the sea beast at all.

This is pretty much where I land. They included a fish option -- for fishy situations. Not sure how this is a problem.

Once again, ironic to make this argument when we had to complain for how many years that rangers getting bonuses to tracking and roughing through the wilderness are dead features in campaigns that don't feature tracking and roughing through the wilderness before they fixed that, in this very book. Once again, saying "just use the beast of the land" is the same as saying "just play a fighter", but the question remains, why does the ranger have to be comparatively useless outside of those situations? And they changed a whole pile of ranger features for this, and rangers weren't even so bad at being fighters compared to how useless beast of the sea is when an enemy is merely 15 feet away from the water.