Ok so not specifically green slime, but slimes, oozes, and puddings in general is the topic
of conversation for today.
Most slimes and oozes want to just consume.
They are unintelligent, blind creatures that absorb misc items in their surroundings.
This includes weapons, gold, or even player characters.
I find oozes interesting because they act on instinct to devour everything they come
in contact with.
But they require little food.
Many oozes live in dungeons, caves, or the underdark and don’t seem to require a lot of
sustenance.
So they’re able to just stay there and wait for prey to come by.
They can’t see but most oozes and slimes have blindsight to be able to navigate around.
Oozes are drawn to movement and warmth, with organic material nourishing them.
Oozes kill their prey slowly.
If it wasn’t for suffocation oozes would happily devour their victims alive but more
often than not a creature engulfed by them loses their breath within the ooze.
Gray oozes are immune to magic, fire, and cold.
They attack by engulfing and dissolving their prey like most other oozes.
Gray oozes are unique in that they can’t climb walls or hang from ceilings so you’ll
find them mostly on the ground in swamps, caverns, and dungeons.
Specifically Green Slime in DnD 5e isn’t a monster like it has been in past editions
but more of a dungeon hazard or trap.
You can place green slime in a dungeon for your player characters to encounter.
It will eat away at their non-magical weapons and armor.
A sticky substance, it clings to walls, floors and ceilings waiting for movement when it
will attack.
Instead of HP you can destroy green slime with sunlight, cold, fire, or radiant damage.
Let’s talk about everybody’s favorite ooze the Gelatinous Cube!
This specific ooze is transparent and oftentimes waits for creatures to simply walk into it,
not realizing the Cube was in front of them.
They slide through dungeon corridors absorbing everything in their path.
Organic material is quickly dissolved within the gelatinous cube, where metal and stone
material will spend time floating inside until it is dispelled never fully dissolving.
On average a gelatinous cube measures 10 feet on a side and can weigh as much as 15,000
pounds.
Like most oozes they reproduce through asexual budding.
A smaller cube gets excreted and when left to it’s own devices will eat and grow to
another full-sized cube.
If multiple cubes are around those smaller ones can be absorbed accidently and destroyed
before they can grow.
Which makes me wonder of what would happen if two full sized cubes ran into each other?
Could one absorbe the other and thus a 20ft cube be born?
Could be a fun encounter to have multiple cubes form into one large one.
Black oozes are more free flowing than gelatinous cubes.
In fact most other oozes don’t have such a rigid structure like the cubes do.
Black oozes live in underground areas and appear as dark blobs, measuring 15 ft across
and approximately 2ft thick.
Black oozes often hide in shadowy areas waiting for prey.
Which they can’t see and they’re not smart, they instinctively navigate to darker places.
Black puddings eat bone, metal, and wood leaving only stone behind.
Often times you’ll find them in dungeons because they cannot eat through the stone
walls and floors.
When slashed at, and the weapon survives the acidic body of the black pudding, a pudding
can split into two smaller ones.
And those smaller black puddings can split into even smaller ones, and on and on until
they are too small to effectively do damage.
Black pudding desire warmth and sense prey through movement, designed to hunt living
prey they most desire to consume something alive.
But when not available they will devour mushrooms, slime, and metallic objects.
We can’t talk about oozes without talking about Juiblex!
The Demon Prince of oozes and shapeless things.
A large 9ft high green ooze covered in eyeballs, Juiblex is also known as the “Faceless Lord.”
He’s arguably the least complex of all the demon lords of the Abyss, as he wanders about
and destroys what he touches.
Juiblex is mighty though, and the other demon lords have learned that an assault on Juiblex
is futile.
Instead it’s easier to just stay out of his way while he destroys what’s around
him.
Juiblex does not plot or scheme so is little threat to the other demon lords except for
his unwanted destruction of their realms.
Most weapons cannot harm Juiblex and blunt weapons are 100% useless.
His powerful acidic body consumes and ruins nearly everything that touches him.
According to the Fiendish Codex I, Juiblex can sprew green slime at foes and summon both
oozes and demons to aid him in battle.
When other oozes are within close proximity of Juiblex they become oddly intelligent,
coordinating attacks and become more mindful of their surroundings.
Then finally there is a bit of obscure lore involving slimes that I came across.
There is a god in the drow pantheon named Ghaunadaur.
Known as that Which Lurks, and the mad god of oozes.
He broke away from the drow pantheon and his divine portfolio includes slimes, oozes, outcasts
and rebels.
Somehow Lolth arranged for Ghaunadaur’s followers to forget him.
In order to preserve himself he slunk away into the darkest corner of the cosmos
There his power grew and he came to rule over the lowest forms of sentience: the oozes,
slimes, and abominations.
His domain is known as the Dismal Caverns, and he is a chaotic evil deity.
He is an ancient deity said to have been born from the primordial ooze.
He demands sacrifices from a struggle-less prey.
Creatures either charmed or tricked into sacrificial pits.