Ooze para-elementals, also known as mud elementals, were a variety of para-elemental composed of ooze.[3][4]
Description[]
These types of para-elementals had mutable forms that appeared as dark, liquid masses of writhing tendrils.[3][4] They most often took on a form with a torso, arms, and a head with gaping black indentations where a mouth and eyes would be. And according to some their bodies could be highly acidic, rapidly dissolving most organic material and metal.[1]
Personality[]
Like all para-elementals they were wary, cautious, and even unfriendly to outsiders in their home plane.[5]
Abilities[]
Possessing mutable forms, ooze para-elementals were capable of shifting their way through the smallest and tightest of crevices.[3][4] They were also capable of imitating the passwall spell[6] and possessed a minor resistance to elemental earth and elemental water based spells,[1][4][note 1] though some claimed it was an immunity.[6] And some claimed that the spell transmute mud to rock could petrify them.[4] When it came to weapons, they generally could only be harmed by those with a +1 or greater enchantment.[4]
Combat[]
Ooze para-elementals typically fought by grappling and constricting opponents with their multitude of tendrils.[3][4]
Society[]
Diet[]
Like other para-elementals, those of ooze sustained themselves by converting their elemental opposite, earth, into ooze. However, if they found themselves deprived of this, they would not starve to death.[2]
Homelands[]
This variety of para-elemental was native to the Para-Elemental Plane of Ooze,[3] and rarely willingly strayed far from it,[5][7] Though they could also be found in the elemental planes of Earth and Water.[1] And on rare occasions, one to two ooze para-elementals could be encountered in the Ethereal Plane.[8]
On the Prime Material plane, they were often encountered in the River Ith.[9]
Languages[]
Ooze para-elementals were capable of speaking both Aquan and Terran, but it always came out in a burbling tone.[1]
Relationships[]
They held an enmity towards both ooze mephits and ooze sprites,[4][10] with the former often being known to claim dominion over ooze para-elementals,[4] often killing them on sight.[10]
Rumors & Legends[]
Some claimed that ooze elementals found themselves to be revolting.[4]
Appendix[]
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Notes[]
- ↑ Monstrous Compendium Planescape Appendix III technically states that, "fire- and cold-based attacks inflict only half their normal damage," but since ooze is the para-element of earth and water this considered to be an error.
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 Jeff Grubb, Bruce R. Cordell, David Noonan (September 2001). Manual of the Planes 3rd edition. (Wizards of the Coast), pp. 182–183. ISBN 0-7869-1850-8.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Monte Cook, ed. (1998). Monstrous Compendium Planescape Appendix III. Edited by Michele Carter and Ray Vallese. (TSR, Inc.), p. 68. ISBN 0-7869-0751-7.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Gary Gygax (August 1983). Monster Manual II 1st edition. (TSR, Inc), p. 99. ISBN 0-88038-031-4.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 4.7 4.8 4.9 Monte Cook, ed. (1998). Monstrous Compendium Planescape Appendix III. Edited by Michele Carter and Ray Vallese. (TSR, Inc.), p. 71. ISBN 0-7869-0751-7.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Jeff Grubb (July 1987). Manual of the Planes 1st edition. (TSR), p. 53. ISBN 0880383992.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Jeff Grubb (July 1987). Manual of the Planes 1st edition. (TSR), p. 120. ISBN 0880383992.
- ↑ Monte Cook, ed. (1998). Monstrous Compendium Planescape Appendix III. Edited by Michele Carter and Ray Vallese. (TSR, Inc.), p. 6. ISBN 0-7869-0751-7.
- ↑ Jeff Grubb (July 1987). Manual of the Planes 1st edition. (TSR), p. 14. ISBN 0880383992.
- ↑ Scott Haring (1988). Empires of the Sands. (TSR, Inc), p. 22. ISBN 0-8803-8539-1.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Monte Cook, ed. (1998). Monstrous Compendium Planescape Appendix III. Edited by Michele Carter and Ray Vallese. (TSR, Inc.), p. 10. ISBN 0-7869-0751-7.