#oozemaster

[peachs-homebrew]

The Circle of Ooze, also known as Oozemasters, or pejoratively as Oozeheads or Oozebrains by more dismissive druids, look to the most primitive forms of life in their study of nature. Oozemasters study oozes, slimes, jellies, puddings, molds, and other such creatures. This is my Homebrew Druid subclass: The Circle of Ooze. I love the idea of a druid circle that is especially interested in the most primitive forms of life: oozes, slimes, jelly, and such. This subclass adds an extra cantrip, a minor ability to talk to oozes, and Ooze form with some added mobility and the ability to change spell damage types into acid damage versatility. Later levels will give some damage and condition resistance and a split feature like the Echo Knight's echo feature.

[ranavosart]

Still playing around with 3D, this time using my Oozemaster character 

[dailycharacteroption]

Oozemaster (Alchemist Archetype)

Whether they are colossal single-celled organisms, dangerous formless aggregates, alchemical runoff given unnatural life, or even a living embodiment of corruption, there is no denying that oozes are a bounty of rare reagents for the aspiring alchemist.

While many alchemists can make use of such reagents, it is those called oozemasters that specialize in the strange biology of oozes and their properties. They are always on the lookout for sign of ooze infestations, so that they can make use of them in their research. As such, they are experts as slaying such amorphous beings, and making use of their remains.

Of course, they also know better than most how dangerous such slimy creatures can be, so whatever their other goals are, they see the need to join forces with other adventurers.

 Rather than bother with explosions (or any other element of bomb they could make) The bombs of an oozemaster are little more than a powerful concentrated acid, having no splash, but burning and corroding the foe afterwards.

Every ooze they defeat causes these alchemists to have a bevy of new resources for their experiments, but they can also derive more immediately useful benefits from those prey, extracting an essence of the ooze to utilize some of their properties, not just the corrosiveness, as a weapon. Things like the paralytic toxin of some oozes can be replicated by such a concoction in addition to the harm they can cause.

Through a specialized diet and/or an encyclopedic understanding of ooze behavior, these alchemists also prove incredibly resilient to the special abilities of oozes.

Naturally, the discoveries suited for these alchemists are those that better specialize them against oozes or allow them to utilize ooze properties against foes, such as creating their own temporary ooze minions, or a special mutagen that lets them split into copies.

Unless you’re facing a cult of Jubilex, ooze-focused campaigns are pretty much nonexistent, but oozes remain a popular way to break up the monotony of a dungeon run, and the sheer variety adds to the possibilities. As such, even a specialized archetype like this can find its uses in many adventuring parties. Since they lack splash damage or most bomb-altering discoveries, most builds will be less blasting focused and more on buffing and perhaps some melee, as well as damage over time. Obviously ooze creatures are their priority targets for the benefits they gain from killing them, be sure to use both the trophy rules from Monster Hunter’s Guide and the scavenging rules from Ultimate Wilderness as well to help them collect useful materials for potions or other magic items.

 How exactly one becomes an oozemaster has the trappings of a very interesting story. Perhaps they developed a biologist’s fascination in such interesting creatures, or perhaps they live in a region where oozes are a common hazard. Some might have even encountered a particularly powerful ooze and desired to understand them so they could fight back against the faceless menace.

  Supposedly reaching deeper than any other rift, The Black Wound is mostly filled with a black, viscous fluid which seems to attract, or perhaps birth out oozes of all shapes and forms. The quest to understand this substance and the amorphous denizens is why many settlements formed alongside the canyon, and it is one of the largest exporters of alchemical concoctions.

 Natives as they are to the subterranean depths, it only makes sense that svirfneblin are some of the foremost experts on oozes, everything from gelatinous cubes to magma oozes to even rumors of the locations of at least one immortal ichor. Hiring one of their alchemists is actually quite easy as long as you sweeten the deal by offering the substance of any ooze slain as an additional payment.

 Eagerly seeking anything to assuage their inhuman hunger, the gaki known as Faw has turned their gaze to their next target, the alchemical reagents of a local alchemist who specializes in brewing potions from oozes. After all, surely the distilled essence of gluttenous consumption might do the trick, right?

[v-l-d-s]

Oozemaster

Your innate magic stems from a long family line of ooze-infused blood. For generations, the strange traits of oozes have run in your family line, afflicting some at birth and sparing others, stemming from a well-documented but shadowy ancestor. It’s unclear what horrific experiment infused a monstrous ooze or slime into their body so long ago, but some of their scattered descendants are born to this day with innate magic and bizarre physical characteristics.

Slime Spells New spells are marked with an asterisk.

SLIME MAGIC You learn additional spells when you reach certain levels in this class, as shown on the Slime Spells table. Each of these spells counts as a sorcerer spell for you but doesn’t count against the number of sorcerer spells you know. Whenever you gain a sorcerer level, you can replace one spell you gained from this feature with another spell of the same level. The new spell must be a conjuration or a transmutation spell from the sorcerer, warlock, or wizard spell list.

REFORM Starting when you choose this origin at 1st level, your vaguely gelatinous flesh can mend itself when wounded. Whenever you take bludgeoning, piercing, or slashing damage from a nonmagical weapon and don’t drop to 0 hit points, you can use your reaction to immediately regain 1d4 hit points, up to a maximum of the amount of damage taken. The healing increases by 1d4 when you reach 5th level (2d4), 11th level (3d4), and 17th level (4d4).

GOOPY CLONE By 6th level, you can expend 2 sorcery points as an action to create a duplicate of yourself made from a translucent ooze. If you spend an additional 3 sorcery points, you imbue this ooze duplicate with illusory magic, causing it to be indistinguishable from any humanoid you choose. The duplicate has the statistics of a commoner, but is an ooze instead of a humanoid. Additionally, it is formed with simulated clothing and equipment; this equipment is nonfunctional and melts into slime if it is not worn or carried by the duplicate. The duplicate is friendly to you and creatures you designate. It obeys your spoken commands, moving and acting in accordance with your wishes, acting on your turn in combat. The duplicate lasts for 24 hours or until it drops to 0 hit points, at which point it collapses into a large puddle of ooze.

BOUNCY BODY Beginning at 14th level, when a creature you can see misses you with a melee weapon attack, you can use your reaction to bounce the attack back at the attacker with your goopy body. The attacker repeats its attack against its own AC, dealing damage to itself as normal on a hit.

GELATINOUS ALLY Starting at 18th level, you can expend 6 sorcery points as an action to summon a gelatinous cube to envelop your enemies. Choose a space you can see within 120 feet for the cube to appear. If you summon the cube into a creature’s space, the creature is immediately subject to the cube’s Engulf. The cube uses your spell attack bonus and spell save DC in place of its own attack bonus and save DCs. You are immune to the cube’s acid damage, and you aren’t subject to the cube’s Engulf. The cube is friendly to you and your companions. In combat, it rolls its own initiative and acts on its own turn. The cube obeys any verbal commands you issue to it (no action required). If you don’t issue any commands to it, the cube defends itself from hostile creatures, but otherwise takes no actions. The GM has the gelatinous cube’s statistics. The cube dissolves into a sticky liquid when it drops to 0 hit points, or when you dismiss it as an action on your turn. You can only have one summoned gelatinous cube at a time.

[ranavosart]

Warm up!

[makorays]

my friend is hosting a dnd campaign for our group and he made the combined mistakes of letting me play as an Oozemaster and also take creative liberty with its visual design

his name is eki and he’s a 5′4″ elf afflicted with some sort of mysterious slime disease who walks around confusing everyone who sees him