PraxisVetli
2013-12-09, 12:10 PM
Hey guys.
I wanted to have my players encounter an ooze, but ooze fights are really all the same... it either comes down the narrow corridor all cube-y, or it lurks as a "puddle" until the prey comes to it.
I mean, oozes are fun, but if you've fought an ooze, you've fought them all (especially the ochres).
So to mix it up, I thought, what the ooze went from ambush predator, to more of an active hunter?
I picture something new, something terrible.
An ooze, that can spiderman through citys/stala(c/m)ite/forest at incredible speed, Pseudopods whipping through the air in a brutal series of attcks, grappling and engulfing while the characters flee for their lives.
Question is, how?
Easier to template up an ooze, or does nothing like this exist, andI should just homebrew this? (in which case cool beans if a mod can move it)
I definitely homebrew it, I was just wondering if there were Template ideas, of if there's already a "Hunter Ooze" out there?
My google-fu's failing me, all I can find is Dungeonscape's Sentry Ooze. Which is nice, but only makes it "intelligent," but not class level intelligent. Though I've no idea what class an ooze would take anyway.
Tl;dr: I want to make a quick, pseudosmart, actively hunting ooze.
Important note, I'm looking to make it CR 21-27
I wanted to have my players encounter an ooze, but ooze fights are really all the same... it either comes down the narrow corridor all cube-y, or it lurks as a "puddle" until the prey comes to it.
I mean, oozes are fun, but if you've fought an ooze, you've fought them all (especially the ochres).
So to mix it up, I thought, what the ooze went from ambush predator, to more of an active hunter?
I picture something new, something terrible.
An ooze, that can spiderman through citys/stala(c/m)ite/forest at incredible speed, Pseudopods whipping through the air in a brutal series of attcks, grappling and engulfing while the characters flee for their lives.
Question is, how?
Easier to template up an ooze, or does nothing like this exist, andI should just homebrew this? (in which case cool beans if a mod can move it)
I definitely homebrew it, I was just wondering if there were Template ideas, of if there's already a "Hunter Ooze" out there?
My google-fu's failing me, all I can find is Dungeonscape's Sentry Ooze. Which is nice, but only makes it "intelligent," but not class level intelligent. Though I've no idea what class an ooze would take anyway.
Tl;dr: I want to make a quick, pseudosmart, actively hunting ooze.
Important note, I'm looking to make it CR 21-27