How do we make gelatinous cubes interesting again?
>>47786580
Making gelatinous cubes civil servants to clean the streets in the big city.
>>47786580
Have one kill a player or two, who don't take them seriously as a threat.
>>47786580
Twice as gelatinous
Make them round and rolling very very fast.
>>47786580
Give them cute little faces and Back stories.
Make a gelatinous Cubix.
>>47786580
by making them gelatinous tesseracts
>>47786724
>Gelatinous boulders
>>47786580
You can't spell "gelatinous" without "Latin". Only the cubes know the lost language of the ancients.
>>47786580
They are basically zombies of your setting.
Anyone touches a cube become a cube.
There is only one cube at the beginning of your setting.
Let it spread.
>>47786580
Stop playing with /tg/. You'll find that most real-world people enjoy things that /tg/ dislikes.
>>47786580
Awakenings.
>>47786580
If caught in one they melt non metal items including magical garments
>>47786804
>You hear something moving in the darkness
CLANK
>>47786580
Make them a playable race
>>47786580
a gelatinous cube lich.
Out of the Abyss has the best Gelatinous Cube ever written. So much so that my party adopted it and the Ranger wants it as his animal companion.
Gelatinous cubes can be attuned to different energies and act as a universal battery. Examples:
>Positive energy
Acid is neutralized and heals wounds on living things. Becomes much friendlier to living sapients but still engulfs undead and evil sapients.
>Negative energy
Same as positive, just reversed.
>Electricity
Gains shock damage and glows like a flood light. Acid damage also causes that much lightning damage.
>ETC.
Etc.
>>47786933
Please explain for those of us who have no knowledge of this specific gelatinous cube.
>>47787049
Basically, it's an awakened Gelatinous Cube named Glabbagool that speaks via telepathy and is non-hostile, but rather naive, curious, and asks the party questions about themselves and then tries to join/help them.
>>47787070
That sounds delightful. Too bad awakening spells are so expensive for lower level characters.
Ran a gelatinous cube encounter just last Saturday, against a group of six 1st level characters in Pathfinder. It trapped them in the end of a corridor in the sewers while they were looking for a secret door. One character got absorbed with fireworks in his hand that went off after a few rounds, it actually managed to do the last 10 or so damage to finish off the damn thing. Almost killed the character inside. I had the 5e gelatinous cube miniature that you can take apart to put absorbed character's minis inside of it.
The key is to make the most of a cube, it doesn't work in a gaint cave, it needs to ambush the PCs in a 10 foot wide corridor, preferably with a dead end. It should also be advanced in hit dice to be one or two levels higher than a standard encounter.
>>47786580
They were never interesting.
>>47787070
>Glabbagool
pls no
>>47786580
>inb4 slimegirl
>>47787304
That would actually make them less interesting.
>>47787367
Less interesting, but more cute.
>>47787439
Cute is cancer, at least what you consider to be "cute".
>>47786580
They're actually box Jellyfish.
Dungeons are like the ocean, with Jellies, landsharks, giant crabs.
>>47787070
Dawwwww
Use them like thwomps. Even better if the drop splits the party. The unlucky sob that gets insta-engulfed is going to be paranoid for the rest of the game.
Add vodka. Chop up into smaller cuves and serve to guests at parties, dances and galas as "shots". Sit back and enjoy the hilarity.
>>47786580
Allow me to explain my suggestion in song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W80xBX0jK-cNo seriously though, imagine a dungeon where the adventurers need to use the gelatinous cube's acidic qualities to get past something, so they need to cause it to move the way they want it to move.Pic related is the banner I got opening this thread.
>>47787777
cubes*. Fuck. Also, quads.
>>47786580
Gelatinous Parallelepipeds.
>>47787257
So you find nothing imteresting?
>>47786580
Open a portal to the gelatinous plane
One day the oceans change in consistancy as an ooze rises from the deep. The ocean is jelly.
>>47788094
Swarms of mole-fish begin threatening coastal settlements.
>>47786580
gelatinous snake.
>>47786580
More polyhedra with different abilities.
I heard of a campaign where the drow put a globe of force inside a gelatinous cube with a control mechanism. a drow garbage man would sit on a cushion in the globe and drive the cube around to clean up the corridors. When he wanted to get out for a smoke break, he just gently moved the globe to the edge of the cube and slid out.
>>47788398
There's actually a magic item in 3.5 called the Amulet of Ooze Riding that does exactly what you describe. Whenever the wearer comes into contact with an Ooze, it projects a bubble around them, preventing them from taking damage. You can 'ride' a gelatinous cube by tapping on the side of the bubble to simulate the vibrations of prey in that direction.
>>47788741
in years gone by, /tg/ pulled rules from a variety of 3.5 sources and created a wizard with an enlarged gelatinous cube familiar that he could ride without any drawbacks.
>>47788792
Fucking wizards.
>>47786580
How about making them pyramid-shaped?
>>47788148
>Players manouver to drive the gelatinous snake into itself
>Its "front" merges with its own body, and the fragile conciousness of the gelatin loses all sense of direction, losing track of forwards and backwards, unable to move anymore.
>>47786730
I watched so many episodes of this shit and can't actually remember any of it.
>>47789782
Get the fuck out.
>>47787884
The world is not a gelatinous cube, anon.
>>47789782
You mean like a gelatinous... pyramid?
>>47790683
Not yet, at least.
>>47790683
Not with that attitude.
>>47790625
All I remember is that is was about a group of children with a robot made out of blocks fighting other robots.
>>47790739
It's be a pretty strange attitude for a gelatinous cube world to adopt.
>>47786580
Sexualization
You new at this, son?
>>47786580
Make them cute girls
>>47786794
This. Sometimes /tg/ (and other rpg forums, too, to be fair!) is way up its own ass about hating this, subverting that, reinventing every other thing. It's kinda weird. I play with a group that would kind of be normies by /tg/ standards and they're enthusiastic, fun, and they don't spend so much time on negativity.
Maybe try that, OP. Either try to embrace or rekindle a sense of wonder and imagination yourself, or replace your group if they're the ones with the issue.
Guise guise, here me out....what if....gelatinous cubes were waste byproducts of another creature....crazy right.
>>47792146
You mean like if something shat jelly?
>>47792171
Yeah...exactly like that...,,you can track the bigger threat by following them...as they try to kill you...
>>47792197
I think that for once "magical realm" is actually descriptive of a scenario on /tg/, which is not to say that I disapprove.
>>47790902
Slime girls can read minds?
>>47792528
That one can.
>>47786580
>Before you stands a great, wet cube, sliding slowly through the dungeon passages.
>It has a distinctly offwhite colour, though transparent, and smells strongly of unspoiled, wet pussy.
>You realize it is possible this gelatinous cube is a geleatinous cube of pussy juice.
Now step into my magical realm.
Gelatinous cube has been experimented on by a wizard to create a gelatinous Hypercube. It's like a normal cube, but it exists in the same place in 10 different planes at once and when you get engulfed by it (and once every round spent engulfed)you are transported to a random plane it exists on, though you are still engulfed.
>>47786580
In my megadungeon there is an infamous gelatinous cube called Treasure Death that roams the eastern section. It has grown and aged through the years, filling the corridors it has slowly eroded to match its size. It is completely silent, and very translucent - it is nearly impossible to notice its there unless you happen to see a light source behind it distort or something. As it proceeds on it's rounds through the dungeon, it collects the treasure and items from victims and corpses alike, so adventurers would a fine golden chalice or a gleaming sword and helm silently sloshing through the air. It then drags its bulk through an electrified pool into its layer, a long hallway protected by an ancient malformed iron golem named Pig Iron, who stands guard over the trove they have amassed.
So far no one has managed to get to the hoard, and everyone is scheming on how to get past Treasure Death and Pig Iron before being trapped between the two of them. Not to mention someone casually walking into Treasure Death by mistake. The party's current tactic is to roll a cheese wheel with a rope through it down long hallways to see if the coast is clear.
Slimes suck up nutrients from the soil, hobble around, and then release the nutrients into the soil around where they die. If lots of slimes die in the same area the nutritious soil will spawn an evil plant monster!
>>47786580
>interesting again
>interesting
>again
Wat
>>47786889
>the lich, in desperation, decides to put his phylcantery into a truly enormous gelatinous cube.
>the cube actually absorbs some of the soul, awakening it with the liches past personality
>the man before the lich was an adventurer, who watched his entire company slaughtered beneath the might of (insert here)
>cube becomes a sort of revenant, seeking endlessly to end the (insert threat)
>meets party, who adventure to slay the lich
>the cube joins them, unaware of his origin
>upon confronting the lich, the cube realises that he is the key to fighting the lich, and this hacked to peices by the only people he knew
>>47786799
>Cubes absorb the conscience of every creature they devour
>BBEG shows up with world ending McGuffin
>the only one who knows how to defeat the BBEG died centuries ago
>retrace his steps using his journal detective style
>discover that he was devoured by a cube
>find less evil McGuffin/spell that lets you interact with his intelligence via interaction with the cube
>>47786580
Why do people keep trying to reinvent the wheel?...
>>47786580
>campaign set in !Europe
>fight a werewolf in a city, it's critically injured and darts down into the sewers
>follow the blood trail through the old !Roman sewer system
>fight a violet fungus feeding on the filth and refuse
>gelatinous cube sitting under a waterfall of grime and muck
>it's floating in a pool of pure, perfectly transparent water: the cube digests the filth and excretes filtered water
>one player almost jumps on top of it
>it lets everyone pass since it's already in a comfy spot
This was one of the best "traditional D&D" sessions I've had the pleasure of playing in recently. Oozes and such suck when they're arbitrarily inserted into the game. But if you put them in a place where they make ecological sense, or do something like >>47793162 they can be really cool. It's something you don't have to think about with skellingtons in a crypt or bears in a forest, so not all GMs learn to do it.
>>47789782
Gelatinous cubes for dungeons, gelatinous hexagonal prisms for outdoors.
>>47794179
\thread
>>47793897
I think a lot of them fundamentally don't understand what makes a good campaign work. They start off playing beyond basic D&D style campaigns because it's all they or the poor schmuck who got roped into being the GM is familiar with. When then gets stale they try to make all these superficial changes because it's all they know how to do. They don't understand how to make dungeons exciting so they try to figure out what gimmicks they can hot glue onto existing monsters in order to "shake things up.: They don't know how to worldbuild (and more importantly how to present a fictional world) in a way that feels fleshed out and alive, so they swap fantasy race cliches for theme park versions of real world cultures. Basically if you asked /tg/ how to change a spark plug at least half the responses would be telling you what color to paint your car or arguing about different brands of tire.
>>47786580
Make them Slavs.
>>47786580
The villain's lair is filled with what appears to be acid pitfalls.
He's actually enslaved a bunch of gelatinous cubes. For reasons.
>>47793897
>wheel
>gelatinous cube
>>47787070
Is that glabbagool? Ovaaa heaaa!!
>>47786580
make em sentient
>>47786580
Something like pic related. First trap triggers dropping the PCs down into a deep (50 ft) 10x10 pit that has GC at the bottom. After first trap has sprung, second trap in ceiling opens up dropping a second GC onto the PCs and the first GC. Good luck!
Make them the favorite treat of some gods.
>One bored douchey deity is bored and douchey
>Not to mention sort of hungry
>Brainwash a random mortal into thinking they're an incarnation of Bored Douche God
>But leave the brainwashing weak enough that they could see through the bs if they really took the time to think about it or had some self-awareness
>Mortal still thinks he's Bored Douche God but does have some misgivings which grow over time
>But not enough for him to do potentially shitty things
>he's hungry as fuck
>welp I'm a god, I fucking eat jelly murder cubes
>all of them
>Orchestrates a string of events that end in lots of destruction, but more importantly, lots of jelly murder cubes
>Most of them are filled with debris and people in varying stages of aliveness
>You can bet spells and shit got cast all over them, altering them a bit further
>Mortal-who-thinks-he's-a-god charges in headlong despite common sense making him fear for his life a bit
>"Even if I'm not really an avatar of Bored Douchey God, I've amassed enough power to lay waste to the world. I can lay waste to these cubes too and then I might actually get a divine promotion or something"
>The cubes get him, though his upper body is free to move around
>The Bored Douchey God's hand descends from the heavens and plucks the cube containing the mortal away from the earth
>Brings it to eye level, watching the mortal stare back in trepidation
>Pops the cube, flailing betrayed mortal and all into his mouth
>Passes the dead, cube filled world around to his fellow gods like a bowl of Turkish delights
>Another god gets mad that the orc filled cubes got eaten up first before he got any
>Creates another world and begins to convince a mortal that he's an avatar of himself
>And there, the divine snack off begins
>Mortals eventually cotton on and start trying to find ways to fuck the gods up or kill anyone who believes their horseshit
>>47786580
Have a large area of (Epic level?) Magical Darkness or some such that is not (easily) overcome by Darkvision,etc. Sprinkle darkened area with Cubes until desired number reached. Give/force incentive for PC's to enter said darkness. Giggling optional.
>>47793851
Pretty neat
>>47786580
Take any standard D&D/Pathfinder trap and add Gelatinous Cubes!
Trapped chest shoots out arrows? Nope, shoots out tiny (baby) Gelatinous Cubes!
>>47786580
Open door, trigger trap. Guillotine falls? Nope, Gelatinous Cube again!
>>47786580
Greased/oiled-up inclined plane? Check!
Barrels, treasure chests, etc. at the bottom ready to trigger trap if messed with? Check!
Gelatinous Cubes? Double Check!
>>47786580
Sphere of Annihilation in the statue's mouth? Not this time! Gelatinous Cube!
>>47786580
Gelatinous hypercubes.
upon absorbtion, exterior time is frozen and you only have yourself to rely on. Can also act as a conduit to to the past if you exit a different surface.
berserk did it right
>>47786580
>>47797562
Geez
Ooze has ring of sentience slowly dissolving in it. Asks party to somehow save it before the gift of knowledge leaves it
>>47787304
>not gelatinous men
Gelatinous cubes having a form of mimicry. If they are around sapients they can assume form like them and gain intelligence.
bimp
>>47797562
You can't solve everything with rape, /tg/
>>47801195
Not with that attitude.
>>47786580
i have a friend who plays ds 1, so i just stole them for our campaign
>basicly a hunk of rotting stuff and sewage and random trash
>gas inflames after hit by fire , does d10 x d10 damage to the slime
>corrodes metal and carries it around as some kind of smelly ore
the party got into a mineshaft after reports of those things occuring there.
>my pal moves his character towards a box full of potential loot , comparable to the place where you meet your first slime in ds1
>of course , this thing seeps through the ceiling onto his head
>takes nasty corrosion damage to helmet , armor and weapons
>ends up with an infected and swollen face after another teamlate is done beating it off
>he goes towards the chest , but looks upwards this time
>i make up how he spotted another one waiting , just for fun
>tmw i made my players learn from their mistakes for the first time
By putting acid proof googly eyes in them.
>>47802729
Googly eyes only look good with motion and gelatinous cubes are slow as fuck
>>47806562
But they jiggle alot. That provides the motion needed.
>>47786692
thrice as cube
>>47797321
that actually would be really fucking terrifying.
how would i get one as a pet?
im going to be playing an archivist so i wont have access to arcane magic but could i get an artificer to help me make a friendly one?
>>47808091
Awaken spell?
>>47786580
If you're tired of the same-old same-old, consider filling your gelatin with fresh fruits and vegetables.
Make them way bigger. Like, so big is takes the players forever to actually figure out what it is
>>47808167
does it work on oozes? oh cool.
thanks anon, my halfing has a new mount!
make them a parasite that prevents you from extracting any nutrients from food and drinks because theyre absorbing them all
maybe this could make them bigger until you have some alien style chest bursting
>>47790902
this t b h
>>47808380
I think the most popular way I've seen to play an ooze (mostly googirl) is as a Living Spell. It might be harder for to get access to for a pet, though.
>>47806786
Gelatinous hypercube?
>>47810593
i just did some research on that
looks cool
it's a 9th levels spell so it's probably endgame stuff but maybe i could get a hold of a scroll of it earlier
my class cant get familars or animal companions so a living spell seems pretty bad ass
One tactic I've used to keep my players on their toes is putting a gelatinous cube in a shelved cupboard, when the PC's opened it, the cube slide out and the chunks fell out on top of each other and reformed the cube. PC's burned every cupboard like object they came across for the next two sessions.
They're one of the top 10 D&D monsters.
You don't improve on perfection.
What does a gelatinous cube taste like?
And don't say jello, I mean what flavor.
>>47786580
Give them Monk levels.
>>47790768
>roll to put dick in it
>dick disolves
>>47812255
You don't know that until you try.
>>47811600
It tastes like acid.
>>47812998
So, sour.
>>47811600
It's a living thing that's exposed to the environment, probably poison or ... soap?.
>>47813470
You know the taste you get with acid reflux or throwing up?
That.
>>47813582
That's bile and stomach acid. Just acid is sour.
>>47814023
I don't think it's unreasonable to assume that gelatinous cubes contain bile salts, digestive enzymes, and acids a plenty.
>>47787031
That is an interesting concept actually
>>47790762
I remember there being odd energy which also powered the robot made out of blocks.
Bad guy collected that, drained main robot killing him for a few episodes and refined energy.
Bad guy died for real in it
I think there was super giant mecha that absorbed everything at one point
It's gelatinous cube mating season.
>>47810706
you, I like you.
>>47810706
>>47786580
Gelatinous cubes can now combine and morph. Each additional cube exponentially increases the collective's thinking power. From this, you get gigantic conglomerates of ultra-intelligent jelly that can morph between forms, but only at a giant size.
>>47792146
But what creature has a square asshole?
Could it be a gigantic Paladin?
>>47815356
>Each additional cube exponentially increases the collective's thinking power.
So get enough cubes together and they will produce enough intelligence to eventually bootstrap themselves to omnipotence?
>>47793924
Slime-purified sewer systems seem like a really damn good idea. I'm stealing that.
>>47808189
How about perfection salad? That would make a truly horrifying abomination of nature and gastronomy.
>>47815475
That would require an incredibly unfeasible amount of cubes. In fact, the mass of cubes would need to be in excess of the mass of something like the Earth.
>>47815446
Byproducts != shit
It could be made some other way.
>>47815530
>That would require an incredibly unfeasible amount of cubes. In fact, the mass of cubes would need to be in excess of the mass of something like the Earth.
I just realized how stupid this is. Let me make a correction: in order to be truly omnipotent, it would need to consume as much mass as there is in the universe. This quickly defeats the point of omnipotence, as there would be nothing to watch over. In order to cross into other universes and govern them, that much more mass is needed. So in essence, when they become omnipotent, they become omnipresent and all.
>Gelatinous tesseract
>>47815530
>That would require an incredibly unfeasible amount of cubes. In fact, the mass of cubes would need to be in excess of the mass of something like the Earth.
>sentient ooze planet
>>47815576
It would get sapience at about 100 cubes. It would be pretty godly at planet size. Again I want to make a little change to>>47815356 : the growth rate for the cube-intelligence is now logarithmic rather than exponential.
>>47815576
>gelatinous ooze planets merge with each other
>so much so that they start nuclear fission at their core
>sentient gelatinous ooze sun
>also known as Solaris
>>47815554
>titanic ooze becomes sentient enough to figure out the formula to be omnipotent
>to be god meant that it needs to consume the universe
>it needs to BE the universe
Who knows if it hadn't happened already? There might be a little of the divine gelatinous ooze in all of us.
>>47815628
>>titanic ooze becomes sentient enough to figure out the formula to be omnipotent
>>to be god meant that it needs to consume the universe
>>it needs to BE the universe
I was honestly just thinking about this as a campaign. The ooze-intelligence has realized that if it conglomerated all mass it would be perfect, so the group has to stop it before it reaches critical mass and is able to start rampantly consuming all. Its favorite spell would surely be stone to flesh, I'm guessing. Also a little nitpick: if the gravity at the center of the ooze mass was great enough, there'd be fusion and not fission.
>>47787070
>Glabbagool
CARMELAAAAAAAAAAAA
>>47815666
Can gelatinous cubes shut doors?
>>47793897
Because hover cars are cooler
>>47796496
on this note, they are completely transparent.
So just have the chest with the treasure be filled with one, PC reaches down for the treasure, Acid damage and a cube has stuck to the hand, roll initiative, and try not to amputate your friends hand while attacking the cube.
>>47786580
Build your dungeon from stone blocks made entirely of petrified gelatinous cube.
Then set a trap to unpetrify them all when a party enters.
>>47794857
Infuse them with vodka, chai, blins, pierogi, mayonaise and bigos! Also bonus kalashnikov and gas mask respirators, maybe a tracksuit and a tsar bomba.
Now that I call an unstoppable force.
>>47815878
No, they only know how to shut THE DOOOOAA!
>>47815576
At that point its gravity would be too strong to allow it to shift its form easily. I imagine it would at best be able to jiggle a little, earthquake style.
>>47815650
So, your BBEG is, what, the Prince of the Universe?
>>47817072
Can you elaborate on what the Prince of the Universe is?
>>47817081
I meant the Prince of All Cosmos, rather. From Katamari Damacy
>>47817425
Nah. Instead of gathering mass to serve some noble purpose like creating a star, this is forcibly converting mass to goo in order to expand the consciousness of the ooze-god.
>>47786580
Make a gelatinous cube sub-ecosystem.
Some of them is just particularly corrosive slightly green slime mold lining cave walls. Called cave-snot by adventurers, they are of absolutely no interest whatsoever, as they mostly only exist in thin layers on stones, are non toxic to humans and have no interesting properties, (not that most people would know anyway) but they can be a major slipping hazard in caves infested with them.
These can be found outside of caves too, and there are supposedly islands where for some reason all surfaces are covered in this type of slime.
Then you have ones that paired with more algae as endosymbionts preferring to just lay in more or less shallow pools, photosynthesize and occasionally split. Harvested whole they are a delicacy in some more exotic countries having a consistency like jello, and a taste like all fruits combined, with a strong hint of algae, making dried-cut slimepuddles a perfect material for sushi. Just skimming the transparent layer of slime off of a puddle allows these things to be farmed. The slime can subsequently be mixed with solvent and some tree sap to produce strong glue, or laid out in sheets and smoked/dried, to produce a strong silicone-like material for anything from clothes to weapon grips. Furthermore, some species can be used as living bandages or clothing, possessing excellent anti-microbial properties.
Collected into deeper pools, they are supposedly a great replacement for mudbaths and other beauty products. Some liches swear by it's preserving effects on skin.
Some species of puddle slime is an ecosystem on its own, filling up entire lakes, possessing the closest thing any slime has to actual differentiated organs, As these "lakes" are diverse biosystems between the slime and it's symbionts some of them can be extremely dangerous to humans, while others persist on photosynthesis, detritus, minerals, microbes, and insects thus only posing the threat of sinking and drowning.
>>47792787
Jesus christ dude
>>47792787
We're ready.
>>47815628
Primordial Ooze was a gelatinous cube.
>>47818487
>>47818487
Next is your standard "slime cubes" which, contrary to popular belief exist in a large variety of mostly less well defined shapes, with cubes only being prevalent in dungeons thanks to artificial selection for artistic and internal architecture considerations. These omnivorous species invariably have animal intelligence and instincts thanks to a large but mostly diffuse nervous system distributed throughout their entire body.
Some species, "absorption slimes" possess the ability of not digesting the nerve cells they find in their food, and instead replacing incorporating them into their physiology and replacing the structures with their own. This allows the slime to absorb some information from prey animals, giving it a considerable advantage in combat.
Since all types of slime have excellent water retention and purification abilities, as long as one doesn't mind slimy water, tamed cubes are ideal mounts wherever wetness is abundant, but drinkable water is not. Other people keep them on farms as a slightly more dangerous, but also more productive constant source of slime extract, and some people, mages in particular, are fond of some varieties as loyal and easy to care for pets.
Higher evolved "higher slimes" are species of absorption slimes that can manipulate nervous systems better, allowing them to essentially become their prey with a different physique. And selectively transferring neural structures when splitting or mating. These species also possess the ability to manipulate their form, although this is a taxing and slow process much like the healing of severe injuries.
Some of these have either through uplifting, absorption of a sapient being or through other means acquired sapience.
In their natural form however there are no visible physiological differences between the high slimes and the low slimes, making the two types hard to distinguish much to the detriment of adventurers and slimes alike.
>>47794804
UNDERRATED
>>47793714
Sweet christ, how miserable. Stealing this.
>>47793714
I wasn't ready for this post.
>>47786580
But they are interesting.
Maybe let it stay still and the players laugh about the lame monster.
Then give it gel tenctacels which grab players and shove them inside the cube with high damage. Maybe say something beforehand that this thing seems magically active or that something seems to wring inside the gel. Should freak them out, but not quite the normal gel anymore.
>>47793714
g-g-glomp!
>>47818797
It's all about goo girls, isn't it?
>>47816663
It wouldn't need to shift its form much though, it could just use its huge mass to expel bits of itself into space at precise trajectories to colonize other planets. Then those planets would join the Slime Overmind.
>>47786580
>How do we make gelatinous cubes interesting again?
YOU MAKE THEM FUCKING PYRAMIDS
>>47824927
>>47799438
>gelatinous cubes are mimics
So the original cubes wiped out a Mordron colony?
>create labyrinth
>stock labyrinth with multiple cubes
>adventurers must get through labyrinth
>shifting walls of fun and excitement
>adventurers notice labyrinth is very clean
>adventurers realize they must negotiate the maze without being blocked in by cubes
>short passageways to discourage long-range fire
>hilarity ensues
>>47824945
Entire fuckin' gelatinous geometry family!
The gelatinois cubes are white blood cells. The halls are veins. The labyrinth is alive. You kill the cubes you kill the dungeon.
>>47819925
I don't think you're ready for this jelly.
>>47792787
I-I-I didn't sign up for this
>>47826508
>>47824945
>>47824927
see>>47818797
>>47823977
Goo girls are a neat side effect of this ecology.
But honestly does the goo really need to have girl/boy form when it's a sentient pile of slime that can reshape itself at will?
I'd be completely happy with a blob for companion รก la Baymax.
>>47825319
Protectors Enclave looks so fucking amazing even just in the background.
>>47826585
I like that
>>47793633
Agreed.
>>47792787
>implying I or my character knows what pussy smells like
I had an NPC gelatinous cube that was unable to fully dissolve some great hero, his unwavering heart remained inside. Wholly bereft of intelligence, yet afflicted with an overpowering leaking desire for justice, it ended up wiggling the land, idiotically and sometimes dangerously imposing its goodwill.
>>47792787
Well I was enjoying my snack until now
>>47831620
Wait till you hear the hour long description of how that cube was created!
Cover it in soot, put it in a dark room covered in soot.
OR
Put a black dragon inside it.
OR
Give it a saddle.
Another idea, because slime cubes are cool.
Have a section of the dungeon be made of gelatinous cubes entirely. Every brick in the wall, every stone slab on the floor, is actually a small gel cube covered with hardened paint.
And they're kept immobile by a spell.
>>47811600
It tastes like burning.
As a trap room in a dungeon
>>47790430
Unable to die, yet wishing to, the snake eventually stopped thinking...
>>47830931
Why don't you just lift, bro?
>>47794804
I'm new to the game only a few months in and me and friends only have played 5e. I'm the poor schmuck roped into DM. I try my best to prepare ahead write about NPCs and events ahead of time but I feel I've a long way to go.
>>47817445
Well, that's sort of noble in its own way. Clearly the ooze god, with its incredible insights, has managed to figure out that consuming all matter to become nearly omnipotent is a better fate than letting humans run around and what, kill everything and rest on a planet of bones?
Give it a GameCube color scheme
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