Slime and Pudding

Green Slime and Black Pudding

I love including the pantheon of monsters I playfully refer to as the Gygaxians.

The green slime and black pudding are classic Gygaxians.

Destroy the party’s items and gear old school style. the slimes touch degrades things according to the crafting chart. Every round they degrade one stage until they are useless.

Weapons that strike them suffer the effects of being disassembled. Each strike against the black pudding causes the weapon to drop a damage die.

Green slimes proficiently act where black puddings masterfully disassemble crafted equipment.

The green slime consumes wood, leather, paper, hair and fabric but not living flesh. This corrodes handles of weapons, eats apart armor and tools if they get it on them, quickly making them useless.

Minutes after exposure a leather cape and wool tunic are just a thickening in a puddle of goo and a few fancy buttons.

The black pudding on the other hand consumes metals and flesh as well. It degrades material and burns flesh as it consumes it.

After just a few rounds of fighting these sloshing, seething puddles of devouring, a guy could be left more naked than a bad poker night.

Getting covered in green slime is painless at first but as the stuff dries in the sun, and it only dries in the sun, just a spattering of this seething snot like stuff releases a gut wrenching stink like the rottenest of midden rot.

That and the total baldness they confer to any patch of scalp they can reach leaves their victims with severe charisma and beauty deficits. It takes a day or so of preening to reverse these effects.

The stench alone causes issues with alertness, stealth, awareness, concealment, animal handling, and a host of other proficiencies.

Green slime seeps and seethes as it stretched but ultimately it wants to gather itself wherever it’s found a comfortable meal. Green slime comes together unless diluted. The stuff is damaged heavily when exposed to running fresh water. There are marine green slimes that do just fine consuming the dead matter of their salty home.

Black pudding wants to be torn apart. The rubbery, muscle like mass of seeping, leaking strands and spurts of pudding reproduce when critically sundered. They settle for a round and surge toward their meal again hungrier than before.