Ooze Bomb

Ultimate Equipment Guide II

Author Greg Lynch, J. C. Alvarez

Publisher Mongoose Publishing

Publish date 2005

The ooze bomb is the rarest of the bombs, not because of any lack of efficacy, but rather because of the danger and difficulty of preparing it for release. It is constructed much like the acid bomb, except that instead of four separate flasks, it contains one enormous ceramic bowl inside, with a hole in the middle for the usual core of alchemist’s fire and thunderstone. This ceramic reservoir is intended to contain an ooze. When the bomb explodes, the ooze inside is splattered over everything within a 15-foot radius of the point of detonation. The great danger in preparing this bomb, obviously, is getting the ooze inside the bomb in the first place. The difficulty lies in finding a species that is immune to fire, or finding a way to give the thing resistance against fire damage. Otherwise, the explosion of the bomb will quite possibly destroy the creature inside, making the ooze bomb an expensive and extremely weak version of a fire bomb. The exact damage done to creatures struck by the ooze after the bomb explodes is entirely dependent upon which creature the bomb is carrying as its payload. There is no saving throw to avoid the effects of a fully-armed ooze bomb.

Ooze Bomb: 200 gp; 30 lb. (price and weight given for an unloaded bomb)