Seaweed Siren water dependency?


Rules Questions


Both Bestiary 4 and the d20pfsrd say the following about the Seaweed Siren's Water Dependency:

d20pfsrd wrote:
Water Dependency (Ex) A seaweed siren can survive out of the water for 1 hour per point of Constitution (typically 22 rounds). Beyond this limit, a seaweed siren begins to suffocate.

The appendix helpfully disagrees with both:

bestiary 4 wrote:
Water Dependency (Ex) A creature with this special ability can survive out of water for 1 minute per point of Constitution. Beyond this limit, this creature runs the risk of suffocation, as if it were drowning.

but of course that's likely meant as a default: the karkenoid and oceanid (also in Bestiary 4) explicitly list water dependency as 1 hour per point of constitution, while the lorelei says nothing (thus presumably is the default 1 minute per point). Other monsters in other bestiaries have their own rules (1 minute per CON, 1 hour per CON, or a flat 2 hours).

Obviously I can choose any of the three, but I'm curious what the consensus is as to which was meant. I am guessing they meant 1 hour per point of con, since the creature can talk and converse (which it probably does to most victims outside the water) so hours make more sense...


Suffocation is on a timescale of rounds so I suspect that was the intended timescale for the water dependency too. Still if you have a use for it in game which takes longer and you haven't already defined the timescale there's no reason you shouldn't change it. I assume you're the GM?

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