Quote Originally Posted by Thomar_of_Uointer View Post
If you're in an aquatic setting, then the only media you might be familiar with is The Little Mermaid.
Which is why I always try to steer my players towards "Blue Planet" and "OCEAN".

I also think that merfolk, aquatic elves, sahaguin, and the other D&D aquatic monsters are terrible player races. They're bland caricatures, and nobody knows where to start when playing them.
I do tend to keep sea elves, merfolk, and locathah as the "core" races for my game, but by no means do I limit it to that. I have a few inspirations that I tend to reference often. I also tend to change races around a bit. My locathah, for example, are a hermaphroditic race (happens with fish quite often) born into a caste system based on their coloration (they are colored like larger angelfish .

a half-Tolkienesque universe where dwarves drink beer....
Sweetsponge soaked with inkwine is the libation of choice, in the local waters.