Even ones with rudimentary intelligence may be highly resistant to such.īlind (but have the blindsight special quality), with immunity to gaze attacks, visual effects, illusions, and other attack forms that rely on sight. Mindless: immune to all mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, illusions, phantasms, patterns, and moral effects). This makes them similar to the real world cephalopods and hagfish. Individual rules for your specific system may vary)Īmorphous: Slimes, oozes and jellies lack discernible features, allowing them to “flatten” themselves out to get into the tiniest of places.
(Note: these traits are based on D&D/ Pathfinder. Generally speaking, slimes, oozes, and jellies have the following traits: Among the reasons these enemies are omnipresent in games is because of their versatility. They can serve the roles of everything from distraction to dungeon cleanup to deadly enemies to assassins. Their creation stories can be varied: everything from a psychic phenomenon from emotions coalescing into the ooze in the case of the Emotion Ooze to natural phenomenon dating back to the creation of the universe to horrors from another universe to a scientific experiment or magical experiment gone awry to a miscast spell (as in the case of the mustard ooze). Slimes, oozes, and jellies – and even such things as gibbering mouthers, mudmen, and mimics – are amorphous due to their unique lack of anatomy, these creatures range from mindless eating machines to tricky shape-shifters or something in- between, depending on their exact type. Yet these creatures, for all their similarities and simplicity, are awesome if they are used properly and can be used to challenge even the most powerful of characters. When most people hear the words “slime” in the context of a RPG game, they feel that these enemies, for the most part, are beneath their notice. (note: when reading this article, the advice herein applies equally to oozes, jellies, in addition to the titular slimes, though I won’t always call it out in the article, so as not to be repetitious.)
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