Size:
Large
Type:
Ooze
Form:
amorphous
Temper:
# App:
1, 1d4
Lair:
Diet:
Combat Dice:
0
Hit Points:
0
Attack Rank:
0
Passive Defense:
0
Active Defense:
Damage Reduction:
0
Role:
Ground:
± 20'
Climb/Arboreal:
± 20 ft.
Flight:
± 60 ft. (good)
Swim:
Benthic:
Burrow:
± 50 ft.
Ethereal:
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Basic Fantasy
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Basic Fantasy
Offense
1 pseudopod
Circumstance: Combat
3d8
Special
Splitting
If attacked with normal or magical weapons, or with lightning or electricity, a black pudding suffers no injury, but will be split into two puddings; the GM should divide the original black pudding's hit dice between the two however he or she sees fit, with the limitation that neither pudding may have less than two hit dice. A two hit die black pudding is simply unharmed by such attacks, but cannot be split further.
Special
Cold Immunity
Cold or ice based attacks do not harm a black pudding, but such an attack will paralyze the pudding for one round per die of damage the attack would normally cause.
Special
Acid
Bodies secrete acids that help them catch and digest their prey.
Environments
underdark
Amorphous creature that lives only to eat, scouring underground areas for organic matter
Black puddings are amorphous creatures that live only to eat. They inhabit underground areas throughout the world, scouring caverns, ruins, and dungeons in search of organic matter, living or dead. They attack any creatures they encounter, lashing out with pseudopods or simply engulfing opponents with their bodies, which secrete acids that help them catch and digest their prey.
The typical black pudding measures 10 feet across and 2 feet thick, and weighs about 10,000 pounds. Black puddings of smaller sizes may be encountered, possibly as a result of the splitting described above.
Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Basic Fantasy
Actions/Abilities/Traits: BECMI
Actions/Abilities/Traits: BECMI
Action
1
3-24
Actions/Abilities/Traits: BECMI
Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSE
Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSE
Environments
underdark
Action
touch
1 * touch (3d8)
Special
Immunity
Only harmed by fire-based attacks.
Special
Division
Non-fire attacks (including spells) cause the pudding to divide. Each hit creates a 2HD pudding that does 1d8 damage.
Special
Erode wood and metal
Can dissolve wood or metal in one turn.
Special
Cling
Can move across walls and ceilings.
Special
Seep
Can squeeze through small holes and cracks.
Actions/Abilities/Traits: OSE
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Pathfinder 2e
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Pathfinder 2e
Ability
Constrict
1d8+7 bludgeoning plus 1d6 acid, DC 26
Ability
Corrosive Mass
A creature that hits the pudding with a metal or wooden weapon must succeed at a DC 22 Reflex save or the weapon takes 2d6 acid damage (after dealing damage to the black pudding as normal). Thrown weapons and ammunition take this damage automatically with no save.
Ability
Corrosive Touch
When the pudding hits a creature with its pseudopod, any acid damage is dealt to the creature's armor or clothing as well as the creature.
Ability
Motion Sense
A black pudding can sense nearby motion through vibration and air movement.
Ability
Split
When the black pudding is hit by an attack that would deal slashing or piercing damage and has 10 or more HP, it splits into two identical puddings, each with half the original's HP. One pudding is in the same space as the original, and the other appears in an adjacent unoccupied space. If no adjacent space is unoccupied, it automatically pushes creatures and objects out of the way to fill a space (the GM decides if an object or creature is too big or sturdy to push).
Ability
Suction
The pudding can climb on ceilings and other inverted surfaces, though such surfaces are difficult terrain for it.
Offense
Melee
Circumstance: combat round (melee)
pseudopod +18 [+13/+8] (reach 10 feet), Damage 2d8+7 bludgeoning plus 2d6 acid, corrosive touch, and Grab
Trait
Mindless
A mindless creature has either programmed or rudimentary mental attributes. Most, if not all, of their mental ability modifiers are -5. They are immune to all mental effects.
Trait
Ooze
Oozes are creatures with simple anatomies. They tend to have low mental ability scores and immunity to mental effects and precision damage.
Immunity
acid
critical hits
mental
piercing
precision
slashing
unconscious
visual
Perception
motion sense 60 feet
no vision
Actions/Abilities/Traits: Pathfinder 2e
Amorphous creature that lives only to eat, scouring underground areas for organic matter
Black puddings are amorphous creatures that live only to eat. They inhabit underground areas throughout the world, scouring caverns, ruins, and dungeons in search of organic matter, living or dead. They attack any creatures they encounter, lashing out with pseudopods or simply engulfing opponents with their bodies, which secrete acids that help them catch and digest their prey.
The typical black pudding measures 10 feet across and 2 feet thick, and weighs about 10,000 pounds. Black puddings of smaller sizes may be encountered, possibly as a result of the splitting described above.
Basic Fantasy Role-Playing Game
Huge (5'-30' across), mindless blobs of amorphous black jelly. Driven by ravenous hunger.
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