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Creature Types Ooze

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An ooze is an amorphous or mutable creature, usually mindless.

In the dimly lit cavern, a grotesque creature emerges—a formless mass of translucent slime pulsating with an eerie glow. This ooze, a mysterious entity of unknown origin, seems to defy the laws of nature as it oozes and undulates across the rocky terrain. Its surface is a spectrum of sickly greens and purples, reflecting the ambient light in a disconcerting dance.

As it moves, the ooze engulfs anything unfortunate enough to be in its path, dissolving objects and leaving behind a residue of corrosion. Its amorphous body allows it to squeeze through the smallest crevices, making it a formidable and elusive adversary. The air is thick with the scent of decay, a pungent reminder of the destructive nature of this enigmatic creature.

Adaptable and relentless, oozes are a living embodiment of primordial chaos, existing solely to consume and corrode, leaving behind a trail of dissolved remnants in their wake. Their presence evokes a sense of dread, a reminder that, in the shadowy depths, the unknown and formless can be far more menacing than any tangible foe.

An ooze has the following features.

  • d8 Hit Die.
  • Base attack bonus equal to 3/4 total Hit Dice (medium progression).
  • No good saving throws.
  • Skill points equal to 2 + Intelligence modifier (minimum 1) per Hit Die. However, most oozes are mindless and gain no skill points or feats. Oozes do not have any class skills.
  • Traits: An ooze possesses the following traits (unless otherwise noted in a creature’s entry).
  • Mindless: No Intelligence score, and immunity to all mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects). An ooze with an Intelligence score loses this trait.
  • Blind (but have the blindsight special quality), with immunity to gaze attacks, visual effects, illusions, and other attack forms that rely on sight.
  • Immunity to poison, sleep effects, paralysis, polymorph, and stunning.
  • Some oozes have the ability to deal acid damage to objects.
  • Not subject to critical hits or flanking. Does not take additional damage from precision-based attacks, such as sneak attack.
  • Proficient with its natural weapons only.
  • Proficient with no armor.
  • Oozes eat and breathe, but do not sleep.

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