Bodies of water


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Hello, I have a question about bodies of water.

What is the minimum size for bodies of water ?

For example, a medium creature is in the size of a 5-foot cube of water, is it considered as a body of water ?


Let's approach this from a different direction, what ability/rule do you have that is dependent on something being a "body of water"?

Ultimately it's probably going to depend on your GM, and the context of the ability.


Search button on Nethys seems to be completely broken at the moment. The only reference to 'body of water' that I can find is Aquatic Adaptation.

But I can't figure out why it would be useful to use that in something as small as a 5 foot cube of water. The benefits would be nearly useless, and it doesn't apply any penalties that could be used offensively.


Yeah, if the ability in question is aquatic adaptation I would say if you want to spend 10 minutes to adapting yourself to anything you want to call a body of water then I'd allow it as a GM. Whether it might otherwise be called a puddle, river, lake, stream, ocean, etc I see no problem in allowing it.


There's that water cantrip that gets extra effects (a 5' burst?) if cast on enough water.


Xenocrat wrote:
There's that water cantrip that gets extra effects (a 5' burst?) if cast on enough water.

That's true. Spout.

Though it also gives examples of sizes that qualify and sizes that don't - for its own mechanics. I don't think I would extend that size limit to other abilities arbitrarily.

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