SRD:Ooze Type
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Ooze Type
An ooze is an amorphous or mutable creature, usually mindless.
Features
An ooze has the following features.
- 10-sided Hit Dice.
- Base attack bonus equal to 3/4 total Hit Dice (as cleric).
- No good saving throws.
- Skill points equal to (2 + Int modifier, minimum 1) per Hit Die, with quadruple skill points for the first Hit Die, if the ooze has an Intelligence score. However, most oozes are mindless and gain no skill points or feats.
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).
- 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. In such a case, the amount of damage is equal to 10 + 1/2 ooze’s HD + ooze’s Con modifier per full round of contact.
- Not subject to critical hits or flanking.
- Proficient with its natural weapons only.
- Proficient with no armor.
- Oozes eat and breathe, but do not sleep.
SRD Monsters with the Ooze Type
| Creature Entry | CR | Type and Subtypes | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Black Pudding | 7 | Ooze | Huge |
| Elder Black Pudding | 12 | Ooze | Gargantuan |
| Gelatinous Cube | 3 | Ooze | |
| Gray Ooze | 4 | Ooze | Medium |
| Ochre Jelly | 5 | Ooze | Large |
Homebrew Monsters with the Ooze Type
Homebrew monsters using this type appear below. These are not part of the SRD, and are presented for ease of reference only.
| Creature Entry | CR | Type and Subtypes | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Beer Pudding | 5 | Ooze | Large |
| Devouring Pillow | 1 | Ooze | Tiny |
| Dream Sponge | 7 | Ooze, SRD: Type | Huge |
| Figgy Pudding | 5 | Ooze | Medium |
| Geostase | 21 | Ooze | Colossal |
| Goop | 1/2 | Ooze | Tiny |
| Gravy Ooze | 5 | Ooze | Medium |
| Green Slime | 11 | Ooze | Medium |
| Hedoro | 3 | Ooze [Shapechanger, Xenotheric] | Medium |
| Hemoplasm Slime | 7 | Ooze | Medium |
| Immortal Flesh | 2 | Ooze | Medium |
| Living Hole | 4 | Ooze [Extraplanar] | Medium |
| Mist Stalker | 8, 1 | Aberration, Ooze | Medium, Tiny |
| Mkodos | 4 | Ooze [Xenotheric] | Medium |
| Neurogel | 5 | Ooze [Psionic] | Medium |
| Oilslick Ooze | 5 | Ooze | Large |
| Oneirovira | 7, 1 (if encountered without core) | Ooze, Vermin [Dreamborn, Psionic, Extraplanar] | Large, Small |
| Opalogene | 8, 32 | Ooze [Psionic, Swarm] | Tiny, Colossal |
| Pillow Ooze | 3 | Ooze | Small |
| Shadow Symbiont | 1 | Ooze | Tiny |
| Singularity | 17 | Ooze | Huge |
| Stickygrip Slime | 6 | Ooze | Medium |
| Tentacle Grass | 7 | Ooze | Large |
| Time Ooze | 5 | Ooze | Medium |
| Ureymiller Ooze | 18 | Ooze | Colossal |
| Wizard Ooze | 5, 3 | Ooze | Medium, Tiny |
Homebrew Templates that grant the Ooze Type
Homebrew templates granting this type appear below. These are not part of the SRD, and are presented for ease of reference only.
| Template | Description | CR Adjustment |
|---|---|---|
| Corpseblood Gel | They look normal on the outside, but they are little more than bags of slime wearing the skin of a person. |
Homebrew Races with the Ooze Type
Homebrew races using this type appear below. These are not part of the SRD, and are presented for ease of reference only.
| Race Name | Summary | Favored Class | Ability Adjustments | LA | ECL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Animus Magica | A living Animate Objects spell, Animus Magica make for very interesting and challenging enemies - And allies., A battered Warforged with an unseen and unsettling secret. | Fighter, Sorcerer, Battlemage | +2 Constitution, +2 Wisdom, -2 Charisma | 1 | 2 |
| Neneki | Neneki are a rare race of magically altered humanoids, and their semi-amorphous bodies have many traits attributed to oozes. | Any | -2 Strength, +2 Constitution, -2 Wisdom | 1 | 2 |
| Noo | Noo are one, and there is only one Noo. Noo are hivemind, and stem from the planet Noosphere, where Noo waits. | Any | +2 Constitution, -2 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom | 0 | 3 |
| Oobleck | The oobleck are a rare sapient form of ooze, capable of speech and thought. | Any | -2 Dexterity, +4 Constitution, -2 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom, -2 Charisma | 1 | 2 |
| Slimeling | Adorable oozes with faces and intellect, these small blobs try their best! | Barbarian, Sorcerer | +2 Constitution, -2 Intelligence | 0 | 1 |
| Vaelza | A race of Humanoid Slime Lifeforms from A Super-Earth covered in water, A Planet called Xeqrai | Any | -2 Strength, -2 Dexterity, +4 Constitution, +4 Intelligence, +2 Wisdom, +2 Charisma | 4 | 6 |
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