Marine Crocodile

This fishlike reptile has a thin, streamlined snout filled with needlelike teeth and a long, flat tail that it uses to propel itself through the water.

Marine Crocodile (CR 3)

Large Animal
Alignment: Neutral
Initiative: +5
Senses: Low-Light Vision; Perception +11

Speed: 15 feet, Swim 50 feet
Space: 10 feet

Defense

Armor Class: 14, touch 10, flat-footed 13 (+1 Dex, +4 natural, -1 size)
Hit Points: 30 (4d8+12)
Saving Throws: Fort +7, Ref +5, Will +2

Offense

Melee: bite +7 (1d8+7 plus Grab)
Reach: 10 feet

Special Attacks: death dive

Statistics

Str	Dex	Con	Int	Wis	Cha
20 (+5)	13 (+1)	17 (+3)	1 (-5)	12 (+1)	2 (-4)

Base Attack Bonus: +3
CMB +9 (+13 Grapple)
CMD 20

Feats: Improved Initiative, Skill Focus (Perception)

Skills: Perception +11, Swim +13

Languages:

Special Qualities: Hold Breath

Special Abilities

Death Dive (Ex)

When grappling a foe of its size or smaller, a marine crocodile can perform a deadly dive upon making a successful grapple check. As it clings to its foe, it uses the force of its powerful tail to propel it downward in the water, allowing it to use both the move and damage actions as part of its grapple attempt. If successful, the marine crocodile maintains its grapple.

Hold Breath (Ex)

A marine crocodile can hold its breath a number of rounds equal to 8 times its Constitution score before it risks drowning.

Ecology

Environment: Warm Oceans
Organization: solitary, pair, or float (3-6)
Treasure: none


The marine crocodile resembles its land-based cousins in general body shape and size, though its legs are a hybrid of webbed feet and nascent fins. Its long tail is thinner and flatter than those of traditional crocodilians, allowing the marine crocodile to swim with alarming speed as it whips its tail back and forth.

Marine crocodiles generally remain in warm, shallow oceans and seas. They spend most of their time at sea hunting fish, sea mammals, aquatic humanoids, and monstrous humanoids like merfolk, sahuagin, and locathahs. Only when breeding and laying eggs do marine crocodiles venture onto land (where they are slow and clumsy), before returning to the sea.