On Oozes, Slimes, Jellies, and Puddings

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"They don't eat us and excrete us. They eat us, and then we become them." -Reynard Illvar, Former Templar, Patient in Ostoff Sanitorium

Nomenclature: Blob, Slime, Jelly, Pudding, Glop, Goo, Gook, Gunk, Muck, Sludge, Muk, Gloop, Gleep

Description: There are 4 main categories of blobs. Blobs refers to the entire grouping of monsters.

Oozes are fast moving blobs, moving as fast as an unarmored man. They strike with a pseudo-pod lashing out and slamming into an opponent doing damage with acid and force

Slimes are very very slow moving blobs, moving perhaps no faster than 1 foot an hour. They climb on high places and drop on unsuspecting adventurers. Their attack turns adventurers into slimes themselves.

Puddings are slow blobs that move along ceilings, walls, and floors. They attack by slamming acidic pseudopods against their opponents and engulfing prey. Certain attack methods and energy type can cause puddings to split. Puddings often have uneven opaque bubbly surfaces

Jellies are sluggish blobs that move along floors. They attack by slamming acidic pseudopods against their opponents and engulfing prey. Certain attack methods and energy type can cause some puddings to split. They often have smooth translucent surfaces.

Things that are known:

• Blobs are mindless
• They have no fixed form
• Immune to poison, sleep, paralysis, polymorph and stunning
• They deal acid damage
• Blind, making them immune to gaze attacks, visual effects, and illusions
• Immune to any sort of critical

Beautiful Grey Ooze from Scrap Princess. Go buy something!

Rumors and other whispers in the dark:

• Blobs are actual the larval stage of shapechangers like mimics and doppelgangers
• That isn't true. Mimics and doppelgangers are actually the larval stage of blobs
• Every life form has bones of a different substances. Elves have hollow bones made from the strongest wood. Dwarven bones are made of stone, the bones of Gnomes made of gemstone. Blobs are viewed as an abomination because they have no bones
• Black puddings will always attack the magic-users first. They also have an annoying tendency to say "It's the black pudding!"

While slimes are more effective, Jellies, Puddings and Oozes engulf their victims and slowly digest them

They are not intelligent, lacking a brain, but they are highly skilled at seeking out the optimal routes to secure prey

Christopher Burdett

• All blobs have the ability to fit through any opening merely inches wide, sometimes even through doors or tiny cracks. Some blobs have specialized attacking from these hidden positions
• Their fluid state makes them difficult to hurt
• Blobs are actually complicated plants and they move just as plants do, only much much faster. They are not intelligent  just hungry and able to react to stimulus
• Alchemists and tinkerers love to use killed blobs to engrave fine detail work into items
• Blobs are actually a biproduct of culinary warfare. Blood pudding, haggis, mustard jelly and other foods were adulterated with trolls blood, and then animated for a unique taste sensation; sadly this caused them to combine and become mobile. Immediately after they engulfed the cooks. They were then hacked apart and now there are the many different types of blobs that roam the world
• Jermelaine, giant rants and slugs all survive by excreting substances that repel blobs from their lair
• The above is actually false, and the small creatures that live in a blobs habitat are actually the spawn of the blob
• They are colonies of cells
• Blobs are invaders from an outer universe or plane. Coming to the prime material causes them to lose their natural form
• Blobs are a physical manifestation of the primal hunger, a starving extra-dimensional entity, has thrust itself into this world, seeking satiation. It is this reason when one is distressed by fire or pain, they all appear to suffer, across the universe whole
• Blobs are actually the manifestation and end result of seed spilled, disposed of. For eggs are not the only thing the sperm of man can use to create life
• Blobs were an attempt to create synthetic hydra blood. They are not acidic, but instead secrete an enzyme which causes organic material to pull apart from itself, as a priming mechanism for the hydra during regeneration. Humanoids however suffer, as their flesh is sundered apart
• Blobs are the result of an alchemical reagent that acts or reacts with a base material 
• Water, air, the medium is immaterial. Some say that they move more slowly underwater. The immunity to fire (which burns poorly under the waves) is a great boon to some oozes.
• They are preternaturally silent
• Some reproduce asexually by budding
• They flow towards the nearest food source, regardless of its size
• They are nothing more then the excrement of Zuggtmoy

Slimes
color	immunities		description
Rivolta Stool	Electricity		Created from Excrement
Translucent Slime	Weapons		Difficult to see, composed of acid. Dissolves weapons
Jale Slime	????		????
Polymorphic Slime	None		Appears as crude creatures or objects. When touched or struck, spasms out, engulfing target.
Olive Slime	Weapons		Creates zombies as slaves, Charms targets
Green Slime	Weapons Spells		Turns into green slime in 1-4 rounds. Can be scraped, amputated, frozen or burned.
Violet Slime	Acid, Cold		Harmless in water, Acid burns after leaving water
Black Slime	Cold		Aquatic green slime. Flammable.
Corpse Slime	None		Drains life energy. Undead, turned as a 4HD creature.
Gray Slime	Light, Sunlight		Causes acid damage when exposed to light
Shadow Slime	Cold		Hard to spot. Freezing damage. Can only be scraped off on the first round.
Blood Slime	All but holy water or symbol		Dissolves flesh, leather and cloth. Cannot be scraped away. Kills in 1-3 rounds.
Oozes
color	immunities		description
Frosted Slush	melee		Chill aura, freezes flesh, affected by cold
Ebon Ooze	None		Weak version of black ooze. Made from tar. Weapons get stuck, targets get stuck
Pyroclastic Flow	Fire, Melee		Made from lava, melts weapons, heat aura
Arcane Ooze	Magic		Steals spells (and uses them) against nearby casters
Dolm Ooze	???		????
Crimson Ooze	Blunt		Urban, Draws Blood from target
Amber Ooze	Fire		Multiple Attacks, Edible, Can infuse into target, sapping its will.
White Ooze	Weapons		Rubbery, can curl into ball and bounce attack. Improves AC by 5, hits 2 targets in room at random. Weapons bounce off
Flaming Ooze	Fire		Ranged fire gout attack, If extinguished dies instantly.
Prismatic Ooze	Acid only		Hypnotizes opponents, Coordinates other oozes
Gray Ooze	Magic, Fire, Cold		Dissolves metal, including weapons. Psionic
Crystal Ooze	Cold, Fire		Dissolves wood. Paralyzes, Weapons do only 1 point of damage, 75% undetectable in water
Choleric Ooze	Acid only		Melts clothing and armor. Sticks in globules after attack. Use electricity or spend full round to move freely
Sanguine Ooze	Fire		Causes euphoria, laughter staggers target. Sticks in globules after attack. Use cold or spend full round to move freely
Phlegmatic Ooze	Cold		Causes madness, confuses target. Sticks in globules after attack, use fire or spend full round to move freely
Melancholic Ooze	Electricity		Paralyzes targets. Sticks in globules after attack, use acid or spend full round to move freely
Slime Mold	Fire		Spreads disease, engulfs targets, appears to be inanimate mold, and gains a bonus to surprise
Undead Ooze	Cold		Expels skeletons from its body
Mercury Ooze	None		Causes mercury poisoning
Ice Ooze	Cold, Blunt Weapons		Cold damage when struck, Freezes opponents. Difficult to spot.
Entropic Ooze	Negative energy		Devours souls, Energy drain.
Emerald Ooze	None		Dissolves metal and flesh. Turns opponents into emerald oozes
Air Ooze	Electricity		Transparent. Can discharge electric burst.
Toxic Ooze	Acid		Sticky, Releases Toxic Fume aura that causes loss of health and sickness
Shadow Ooze	None		Strength drain. Grabs opponent.
Bloodfire Ooze	Electricity, Fire		Heat aura damages anyone who strikes the ooze. Can create flame burst. Fire spells near ooze are increased in power.
Conflagration Ooze	Fire		Any contact infuses blood with fire. Can confuse, sleep or hold opponents.
Necromantic Sludge	Turns Spells		Turns targets into zombies by seeping into victims skin and animating corpse.
Nightseed Ooze	None		Atomized absorbed organic targets, granting hit points to the Nightseed along with access to spells and psionic powers. Vulnerable to sunlight.
Obsidian Ooze	Fire, Piercing and Slashing weapons		Molten core. Covered in sharp spines.
Pearl Ooze	Cold, Electricity, Healed by force effects		Grants a bonus to victims AC after victims are struck for 24 hours, but drains a level if a save is failed
Sand Ooze	Fire		Petrifies opponents. Looks like sandstone. More effective fighter with a greater number of sand oozes.
Puddings
color	immunities	split	description
Alluvial Bog	Fire	Piercing, Slashing, Electricity	Animated soil, earth, and dirt. Enveloping attack
Crimson Pudding	Fire, Melee	Cold	Pudding made from blood and flesh
Rice Pudding, Horrid	Pierce, Slash, Fire	Blunt weapons	Can nauseate, has weakening aura (vapors), and can entangle opponents
Dolm Pudding	???	???	???
Silver Pudding	Weapons	Cold	Toxic, turns into solid silver (75%) or platinum (25%) upon death
Verdurous Pudding	Blunt, Piercing	Electricity	Plant matter, looks like spinach tapioca. Always Huge or larger, intelligent, not necessarily hostile
Ochre Jelly	None	Electricity	Actually a pudding
Black Pudding	Cold	Electricity	Dissolves metal
White Pudding	Cold	Electricity	Dissolves organics. Cannot dissolve metal
Dun/Brown Pudding	Cold	Electricity	Dissolves leather in 1 round, metal in twice the time as black
Stone Pudding	Fire	Fire	Dissolves organics and stone, not metal. Petrifying touch. Slowed by Stone to Flesh
Gargantuan Pudding	None	Slashing, Piercing	Dissolves metal and organics
Vampiric Pudding	Cold, Electricity	Cold, Electricity	Energy Drain, Weakness to sunlight. Victims slain become zombies under its control.
Metallic Pudding	Fire	Weapon Attacks	Similar to silver pudding, When fire is used, produces irritating acid fumes
Marble Pudding	Cold	Lightning and Weapon attacks	Glues opponents on successful hit. Hard to see, giving a bonus on surprise.
Jellies
color	immunities	split	description
Bone Jelly	Cold, Piercing	Blunt, Electricity	Undead jelly made from bones
Ulfire Jelly	????	????	????
Ultraviolet Jelly	Fire, Cold	Slashing, Piercing	Invisible, Levitating
Golden Jelly	Weapons	Cold	Solidifies into gold when killed
Azure Jelly	Electricity	Slashing Piercing	Lightning Damage, 3x speed, extra attacks
Gelatinous Cube	Electricty	Does not split	Transparent, Paralyzes, cold slows but does 1/2 damage
Mustard Jelly	Weapons, Electricity	at will	Slowing Cloud, Force attacks (magic missile) cause it to grow. 1/2 damage from cold
Stun Jelly	Electricity	Only when Reproducing	Paralyzes, resembles stone wall, smells of vinegar
Tar Jelly	Fire	Force Spells	Will catch on fire (is immune to the damage), All attacks versus tar jelly become stuck in tar, giving jelly a bonus to hit
Whip Jelly	None	None	Tough Armored Skin, Multiple attacks
Plasma Jelly	Electricity, Bludgeoning, Piercing, Cold	Slashing, Sonic	Fires plasma rays, constricts, engulfs, magnetic pulse that pulls metal closer to the creature
Flesh Jelly	None	Slashing	Always huge or bigger. Absorbs and engulf targets to heal self. Nauseating aura. Spreads disease.
Phase Jelly	Blunt	Does not split	Edged weapons do half damage. Paralyzes. Stunned by electrical attacks. Can phase into stone, stone affecting spells will force them out. Multiple tentacle attacks.
Shining Jelly	All magic but cold, Fire heals	Lightning	Spells cast cause it flash forcing a save or causing anyone viewing it to go blind
Earth Jelly	Normal Weapons, Cold Heals	Fire	Saps hit points from target permanently. Dissolves metal and flesh. Hard to detect against stone.
Air Jelly	Cold heals	Force and Electricity	Saps Wisdom on a failed save.
Dark Jelly	None	Cold, Physical attacks, and Electricity	Blessed attacks work normally, not causing the jelly to split. Drains constitution.
Fire Jelly	Piercing	Fire	Sets materials on fire. Melts metal objects. Double damage from cold. Half damage from bludgeoning attacks.
Water Jelly	Bludgeoning Piercing	Electricity	Hard to see in water. Double damage from fire.

Thanks to the Dungeon Dozen, and a Hamsterish Hoard in addition to my regular contributors to this series.