As promised, a link to a video from AJ Pickett where he gets a lot more in-depth about Ghaunadar and the origin of these guys if you're interested in going deep! - ruclips.net/video/r7lCFAJYmZU/видео.html&t
Are you telling me that the Slime who just stole the +3 Longsword will drop it's crappy Longsword? Nay, I say to thee! I'm sure the Ghaunadar would create a new slime limb to hold it. Heck, why not a couple for that 1d10+3?!
An add on to you idea, the ooze that gets spawned "improves" the person's appearance in a uncanny valley type of way. Thus granting a dark or sick version of the promised "otherworldly beauty" to it
I do kind of like the idea of the creature taking a weapon and using it against the party then escaping through a grate before it’s defeated, thus being unable to take its equipment with it and rewarding the party but still letting it turn up again later down the line possibly
I'm just thinking of having one of these guys being a quest giver for the party, one of them being a wealthy NPC who asks the party for favors...but what I think would be cool is having him seem kinda eccentric like most of the rooms of his house are no bigger than 60' ft , or how in every room there is always some kind of weapon and armor set as decorations......things most people might find odd but wouldn't question that much but for this NPC they matter.....no blind spots and no matter what room he is in he has weapons and armor to use
@@Andrew-vq2zr I love that as a concept. I imagine one of the more perceptive players noticing the tubes and trying to figure out what they’re for. If asked the NPC just says they’re for his cats. No cats are in the house
@@DungeonDad yeah, just imagine the combat tho, having to figure out what room the NPC is in and no matter what room he is in he has weapons and armor, you could even make the rooms themed around the types or weapons
you could get one step further with the hints. like maybe there is an NPC who' owns a helmet with no eye holes, maybe there is an elf who can be observed sleeping instead of meditating, a drow who can't speak undercommon, maybe he reacts to things you do outside his line of sight. on the flip side the character could be pretending to be blind, wearing a blindfold and acting like they have limited understanding of the world around them. i would also up the quality of the humanoid forms, by giving it the physical racial traits of the race it turns into (but not spiritual ones like elven meditation or any extra languages or spells the race would normally get) so when in its humanoid form it can actually see and if the race has dark vision, it gets dark vision, if it transforms into a lizard man, it can bite and so on.
Intelligent oozes would be an interesting player character option. I think Pathfinder 2e has an archetype that allows players to become humanoid oozes.
Imagine a slime that is a monk that can harden their fists into very hard boxing gloves and who can avoid hits like a rubber hose animation character (like squash and stretch into lankiness)
I can imagine a situation where a ghaunadan and a bard are trying to charm or seduce each other and then just make a whole thing about it and possibly adding a ghaunadan to the party. Mostly because of how useful having a sentient shapeshifting ooze along would be and also the back and forth between the bard and a slime.
hello from the future - sooooo from the looks of it, the *_new playable Plasmoid-race is basically Ghaunadan_* but a bit toned down for player usage - I'm so excited about making a playable character based on the idea of a false disguised identity! Revealing your true form as a Plasmoid feels like it could create some very thrilling character interactions!
Plasmoids imitate humanoid body shapes, but they aren't actually disguised. They're just slime people. That being said, that could be fixed with class features, like a warlock plasmoid with Mask of Many Faces.
If you want to make it really dangerous, have it approach the party like a regular slime. They get ready to fight a dumb, jiggly cube when suddenly it transforms into a man in armour mid charge, leveling its open palm at one of the players as a sword shoots from its arm. Edit: I also remember someone else talking about sentiment humanoid slimes who became that way by consuming mainly humanoids, to the point they begin to take on physical and mental traits of the beings they’ve eaten. Eventually they may even stop acting hostile towards people and possibly even become friendly. Only thing to remember is that they tend to be extremely mentally stunted by most standards. (Think Chunk from Goonies) This is just because they’re slimes, and honestly it’s for the best. Imagine gaining sentience and empathy just to realize you got it by eating dozens if not more than a hundred people.
This kinda gives me a cool idea for a party/campaign. Each member has some kind of dark secret and none of them are what they appear to be. Over time the events of the story will slowly force the truth to the surface. The party will learn that the bard is a werewolf or the wizard is a super well preserved litch or ogre barbarian is a polymorphed pixie. The players each keep their hidden forms secret and only the dm knows all the secrets. Maybe they use two character sheets. One for the person the others think they are and one for the real character. Maybe dm doesn’t even let the players know about this and each thinks they’re the only one. Or maybe the party forms because of the secrets. They’re a shadowy black oops group that can’t talk about they’re real identities for safety reasons. Or shady guy (possibly bbeg) threatens to expose them unless they join a party. Maybe they join because they know something on the journey to bbeg castle or in a dungeon or whatever could expose them and ruin the life they’ve built for themselves. Just an idea. Feel free to steal it.
Man, I love the Monster of the Week videos; your videos really give me lots of inspiration for running new encounters and general campaign ideas. And I like seeing how far your production quality has come since the beginning. Love the videos, keep up the great work man!
Maybe when a Ghaunadan changes into their humanoid form for the first time, their form is very indistinct and basically just a human-shaped blob of slime, however as they gain more experience their humanoid form starts to become more detailed and specific until eventually they're completely convincing as a member of whatever race they're mimicking.
At first, they found it strange that the ooze had hundreds of indigestible reinforced arrows. That is, unti it turned tohuman form and began shooting them.
I like to think that the Ghaunadan are split into 'Clans' or something similar with each having a different humanoid form, or are created by different methods, one clan may be created by an angry god while another was spawned from a pool of condensed magic
The only thing I took away from this is that it's an sapient slime, thus I have to worry about bards seducing the things. I've long learned that if it can pass the harkness test the party Bard will try to fuck it. Often successfully despite improbabilities.
I want this as a playable race. Could you imagine being a sentient slime with the powers of a Changeling but be able to disarm the bbeg if he attacks you? If anyone makes stats for a playable race of this please send the link. I want to use it in my next player campaign so bad.
Every second I was more and more like a pc race would be so cool in this video, but yeah an idea for a pc race, maybe you could have a sub race get the melee stuff like catching a blade, a sub race thats more stealthy and can changing into multiple different humaniod forms, and one that's more elemental and it's ooze could do damage of an element of it's choosing and it gains immunity to that damage
Quothe the Bard: I would *BLEEP* it. Rest of Party: Please for the love of [Insert Patron God/Infernal] , NO! Bard 5 Rounds later with acid burns all over body: Totally worth it! Rest of Party: [FacePalms Collectively]
You know, I was just thinking of infiltrator style monsters the other day and effectively giving them class levels, then you post this. Totally using these guys next chance I get. Anyway, thanks for another great video!
This is awesome. Thank you for converting this to 5th Edition. I hope you continue to do more conversions of creatures from older editions to 5th Edition.
👍👍 Possible workaround for the Armor Problem (getting your gear through the small gaps that your body can squeeze through): Scale Mail and/or Lamellar. Pass those pieces through one by one if necessary and have them float up through your body to emerge sticking to your surface/skin 😁 _"This... stuff... came squirting out from under the door. But the sound it made... it was grinding, scraping something over the stone floor. More and more of it bubbled up from the doorway and it grew upwards, this creature, and its skin became steel. That horrible scraping, it was fragments of armor! Hundreds of them! It carried them inside itself somehow and then practically covered itself in them, the shape of a man! It looked right at me, through me, and I swear it had coins over its eyes, like a corpse. I looked across to Olaf and he was smiling, reaching out to greet the thing like it was an old friend! He starts passing it his keys, and it looks at me again with those wet coin eyes... I passed out. And I never saw Olaf again. A couple of people say they've seen him round the market after dark... I hope I never do"_
I think it would be really cool to have one of these things be slinking around a town or estate of some kind and sort of admire one particular person. Then when some sort of tragedy befalls that person, the creature then takes on the humanoid form of that person. This would be a really neat plot hook of some kind where the party thought this NPC had died but suddenly, bam, they are back and acting kind of different.
I wanna play one of these as a roguelock. Not just for all the cool features that would make this race literally the best roguelock ever, but also because I was rewatching Adventure Time the other day and I wanna recreate Jake's Key Hand scene with a party who don't yet know I'm a slime
Found your vids recently. I've been DMing for 20 years now, and you're doing what I've been doing on my own for decades. You're doing great work. I signed up for the patreon, just because what you're doing is amazing. Thank you for doing this.
Imagine, the paladin sprints to the front lines, skewers the slime person to the hilt with his claymore, before failing the athletic check on purpose, and calling a lightning smite down onto the improvised lightning rod
I like the idea that the Ghaunadan gains sentience from a regular slime consuming humanoids and over time. The combined essence that makes up the personalities of those that died create the foundation of the identity the ghaunadan develops over the course of hundreds or years. If it absorbed heroes, it becomes a ghaunadan that uses the frame work of their lives to decide I'm I good. If those it absorbed were evil creatures, it is likely to become evil. I like the same with its appearance, it is more of an amalgamation of the general appearance or the once that are the most dominate traits.
I think a neat idea would be that the Ghaunada can change into any humanoid it wants to, but chooses not to. Because, for each new form it takes, a new personality is created for that form, so every time it changes itself into its humanoid form, its personalities will compete with each other for which form it turns into, and you need to roll a die each time it transforms to see who it becomes. 2 personalities is a coin toss. 3 personalities 1d3 4 personalities 1d4 And so on. Each personality could have its own fighting style, and motives that likely differ greatly from other personalities. And, if it makes too many, it loses its ability to change into a humanoid entirely.
My best friend used to doodle on his character sheet while playing. In a campaign I was running featuring the god Ghaunadaur, I noticed he drew a picture of Ghaunadaur wearing a top hat and monocle. Below it he had written "Jaunty Ghaunadaur, Man About Town"
those pics are certainly sexy looking slimes! Looks like a good candidate for an anime village that needs to breed mwahaha. I want this monster as my next PC!!!
I could see one as a spy and thief. They take a form and it's fairly static, but they're still slime- they'd be able to alter the dimensions of interior body cavities- I see that helping a bard expand their range a lot.
I really like this creature. I also really like the idea of sentient oozes, kinda like the Oblex. Have you ever considered making a playable race of the Ghuanadon?
Living steel is awesome and you’re totally right! Just a few minor fluff changes and it would work really well. Definitely going to keep that in mind for my own games.
@@DungeonDad I was playing way back in 2nd. And my character (urban ranger basically) found one. So he turned it into a pet of sorts. Just kept feeding it iron etc etc. And I became its mom of sorts. Lol But our dm liked running oddball adventures and we enjoyed playing the oddball characters.
@@DracosDiabolis lol, just on the odd like at some tavern someone wonders why some elf has a living ball of metal for a pet and is feeding it iron shavings from the blacks smiths grindstone ketch tray.... accaly i just game my self a nice NPC idea of soem old ranger turned blacksmith has one of thoes living steel blobs as a pet and for the most part the critter enjoys sleeping under the grindstone because of all the metal shavings.
@@DracosDiabolis hmm eather the warforged would be more than likly killed or the blob eats the metal parts of it and the wooden/stone and other non metal things stay... i dont know the living steel much so hard to really say how that would be
Rather than drop any other weapons it’s using, I can see the Ghuanadan creating another limb to wield said weapon instead. And since it can take human form, I’m imagining this sort of shiva like entity with multiple arms each with different weapons, the intelligent ooze being a collector of armaments and such. Can also see it tricking adventures into think it a normal slime monster loaded with armor and weapons, luring them closer and springing it’s surprise attacks while their caught off guard. Would be a pretty interesting character to put into a campaign, maybe even have one that decided to be an adventurer itself even, whatever you want to go with.
I've homebrewed something almost identical to this decades ago, the Petrol Slime. I pulled out my little DM notebook right after watching Phantoms. And, as you imagined possible, I had a PC version of it. I guess on some level all of us AD&D fans are mentally linked somehow. Oh, my version had its natural form as more or less an oil slick... like the movie Phantoms. It's an old scifi-horror flick if you never saw it... still one of my favorite movies.
This monster is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It would be cool if it “gets hungry” whenever it runs into an especially stupid person and, thusly takes interest in the dumb character in the party. I also like the idea of a serial-killer style Ghaunadan that has a weird quirk where it doesn’t eat one part of the body like the skin or eyes.
just a thought this made me have: "so you're a sentient ozz... how did that happen?" "well I was going along like you do eating whatever I came across. then I ate some weird paper thing and now i think things" "...well ok"
Honestly I think I could take inspiration from this outside of D&D or whatever (I don't play these games much, and the times I have have been the one campaign my and a few irl friends are doing (Which got reset once due to important stuff going missing irl. Lol)). Slime that's gained full sentience and can use a humanoid form is just a cool idea. :)
You pursue the suspect down the alley, around a corner, zigzagging through the back streets of the city. They disappear from your sight for a moment. You run to where you last saw them, but they're gone. It's a dead end alley. Against the wall is a sparkling clean storm grate.
I want to see a sentient slime be played like Santana from JoJo's part 2. Absorbing strong enemies into its body like theyre nothing, dashing through vents, entering an NPC's body and exploding it like a meat baloon... It would be wild!
I wish I had found this channel a year ago. In an old campaign I ran the Ghaunadan could take the form of someone they killed. They were stuck with that one form. If they wanted to change their humanoid form, they would have to find a new victim to kill and steal their appearance.
i like the idea of the party being sent so go find a friendly wizard npc by someone but are warned "they're very weird" but the party kinda shrugs it off like sure we are too whatever. they go to the wizard tower and find a slime in the study with robes and books and a focus floating in it and the party is all "oh shit the wizard got ate oh no what do we do!?!" and the slimy form shakes almost like it's laughing as it reforms i to a giggling gooey wizard saying "i'm sorry but i couldn't resist you should have seen the looks on your faces!"
I'm interested in the prospect of this creature acquiring skin from a victim, hardening underneath it and essentially doing its best Doppleganger impression. Possibly even going full Jeepers Creepers and collecting different features. While probably not bbeg material it could serve as a consistent foil or recurring nuisance. Slipping away before death in a crevasse or through a locked door.
I can see an easy hack to mix them with doppelgangers in your setting, if you easily do that. You could even go further & make shape changing predators totally amorphic and able to shift into oozes thus doppelgangers are ALSO mimics, it's just easier to rest for a few decades as a mimic & then a meal might bring itself to you. If you want to make a world where they are a PC race I can see them as having their own racial appearance, like humanoids that look like they are made of a gelatin like substance that's colored but clear throughout. As a PC race I can picture them getting a negative racial modifier on deception checks if you go with the "Jell-O men" look by giving them a color changing trait that matches their emotions. Kind of hard to say "no, it's fine," and be believed when you are turning cherry red with anger, or deep blue with despair. I can see a Ghaunadan aiding High Elves against the Drow as a NPC, maybe even a whole underground network trying to purge the Underdark of Loth's worshipers entirely.
but destroying a loth's network is however QUITE hard and they also will likly sceme your demies later for it regardless but hm brains ticking away on ideas it just wont ever be able to do.
I am going to use it as the form a mage now has after his obsession with oozes led to this accident. He is a rogue drow mage in a group trying to run out the remnants of a fallen dwarven clan from their home to make a profit dealing with the underarm and the yuan ti in the jungle. The party is currently in the dungeon and I am changing the mage to a slime mage now. Going to be awssome
okay.. I just thought of the best thing, and I wanna do it now... Y'know the trope of the shop keepers? Where they're all the same dude, or all very weirdly conveniently placed? /it's just the same Ghaunadan/. Moving from network to network of tunnels keeping tabs on the party but trying to keep up disguises between each portal. Which lead to the scenario in my mind of the Ghaunadan slipping up... "You approach the shopkeeper who has a wide smile and welcomes the party warmly. By name. 'Obongo welcome! Another round of your favorite ale?' The shopkeeper says, going to polish a mug that isn't there before catching himself." ... Then have the party go back and forth between several stores and the Ghanuadan just gets more and more out of breath trying to keep up with the party, the party faking it out and catching the shop keeper reform itself from a mass of green slime solidifying into their favorite tavern owner. This would be the best long con ever that wouldn't really show up until the party starts to fast travel at higher levels.
A possible idea for them could be that it was an ooze that underwent a mutation of sorts when preying on a humanoid creature to the point that they also absorbed their victims soul so their humanoid form is that of their victim (could play it as either sinister or tragic depending on whether or not they retain the memories of their victim).
I wonder if they're able to go from Ooze to Ooze/Humanoid? Would be cool to have a playable version of a monster that isn't inherently a Monstrous Humanoid but can choose to be Humanoid.
This thing would be perfect for an ambush encounter. Especially it is impersonating a lord or something. It could be like an LMD, for an evil lord and when party goes to take out the evil lord and end up fighting this thing instead.
What about a noble one who everyone thinks is a vampire due to their ability to charm people? So the party thinks they're going to kill a vampire and then they just morph into a giant slime monster.
I love the idea that the party is indebted to or allied with a shady organisation, and they are ordered to assassinate a mysterious character that lives in the town, only for that person to turn out to be a Ghaunadan. Just imagine the rogue backstabbing the person, and them just going... "Sigh... again? At least I got a nice dagger out of it... *roll for initiative*", or for the wizard to try to kill them, them pretending to be dead, and them appearing in the town the next day, same as always.
Personal idea: the Ghaunadan takes form of the first individual they absorbed and also take in the memories. A series of murders takes place, the first being of a small child, then a while latter members of a notorious gang start to end up half absorbed, what appears to be dissolved in acid… the ghaunadan had found the small child and absorbed it, taking on its memories and appearance. Filled with the emotions of the child in their final moment the Ghanadan goes after the members of the gang associated with the kid’s murder.
What if an infant ooze needs prolonged contact with a humanoid so it can learn to take humanoid shape, like learning to walk. So the parent would need to either capture or convince a humanoid for it's offspring. There might be two very differing groups living by different philosophies. One group not caring if the humanoid if willing, the other believing deeply that consent is required. From there the possibilities just stack.
As promised, a link to a video from AJ Pickett where he gets a lot more in-depth about Ghaunadar and the origin of these guys if you're interested in going deep! - ruclips.net/video/r7lCFAJYmZU/видео.html&t
Are you telling me that the Slime who just stole the +3 Longsword will drop it's crappy Longsword? Nay, I say to thee! I'm sure the Ghaunadar would create a new slime limb to hold it. Heck, why not a couple for that 1d10+3?!
That’s evil and I’m supremely on board.
Screw two extra, let’s go full Hindu god here!
it has duelist so gets to hold a shield and gets 2d8+5 due to taking levels in fighter. Also takes battlemaster. Your party now hates you.
@@notoriousgoblin83 C'mon. They're level two. They can handle it
@@notoriousgoblin83 why are you such an evil, hateful person? That's just WRONG!
Please TPK responsibly 😂
I wanna play a slimefolk wizard. Imagine them seeing a sunset for the first time through their familiars eyes
This has to happen now.
This is an AMAZING IDEA.
a super sneaky shape shifting rogue?
@@murunbuchstanzangur or a monk or barbarian that can disarm or grapple whoever attacks them in malee
@@andreabontempo6004 ooh nice. Like terminator 2, when the t1000 gets a weapon lodged in his head, then oops, nope, that's not a head thats a hand.
Starting the video with a pun is the most dad thing we can do!
Gotta stay on brand!
Another idea I had is that the Ghaunadar promises otherworldly beauty, only to eat you and spawning a new one who stealed your form
An add on to you idea, the ooze that gets spawned "improves" the person's appearance in a uncanny valley type of way. Thus granting a dark or sick version of the promised "otherworldly beauty" to it
I do kind of like the idea of the creature taking a weapon and using it against the party then escaping through a grate before it’s defeated, thus being unable to take its equipment with it and rewarding the party but still letting it turn up again later down the line possibly
I'm just thinking of having one of these guys being a quest giver for the party, one of them being a wealthy NPC who asks the party for favors...but what I think would be cool is having him seem kinda eccentric like most of the rooms of his house are no bigger than 60' ft , or how in every room there is always some kind of weapon and armor set as decorations......things most people might find odd but wouldn't question that much but for this NPC they matter.....no blind spots and no matter what room he is in he has weapons and armor to use
Oh and every room is connected with small tubes that he can go through at will
@@Andrew-vq2zr I love that as a concept. I imagine one of the more perceptive players noticing the tubes and trying to figure out what they’re for. If asked the NPC just says they’re for his cats. No cats are in the house
@@DungeonDad yeah, just imagine the combat tho, having to figure out what room the NPC is in and no matter what room he is in he has weapons and armor, you could even make the rooms themed around the types or weapons
you could get one step further with the hints.
like maybe there is an NPC who' owns a helmet with no eye holes, maybe there is an elf who can be observed sleeping instead of meditating, a drow who can't speak undercommon, maybe he reacts to things you do outside his line of sight.
on the flip side the character could be pretending to be blind, wearing a blindfold and acting like they have limited understanding of the world around them.
i would also up the quality of the humanoid forms, by giving it the physical racial traits of the race it turns into (but not spiritual ones like elven meditation or any extra languages or spells the race would normally get) so when in its humanoid form it can actually see and if the race has dark vision, it gets dark vision, if it transforms into a lizard man, it can bite and so on.
I kept typing ideas then clicked off..... I can't go on.
Intelligent oozes would be an interesting player character option. I think Pathfinder 2e has an archetype that allows players to become humanoid oozes.
I know 1e has it and it’s terrible
@@moomosa2950 that doesn't have any bearing on Pathfinder 2, it's a wholly different system.
there is one on reddit that isnt too hard to find for an oblex player race
there are plasmoids now
@@timetraveler_from_2012 I see I'm 1 day late
I will say I found your channel less than a year ago, and now you gave me a stat block to make Rimiru Tempest in dnd by modifying this thing
Imagine a slime that is a monk that can harden their fists into very hard boxing gloves and who can avoid hits like a rubber hose animation character (like squash and stretch into lankiness)
I can imagine a situation where a ghaunadan and a bard are trying to charm or seduce each other and then just make a whole thing about it and possibly adding a ghaunadan to the party. Mostly because of how useful having a sentient shapeshifting ooze along would be and also the back and forth between the bard and a slime.
hello from the future - sooooo from the looks of it, the *_new playable Plasmoid-race is basically Ghaunadan_* but a bit toned down for player usage - I'm so excited about making a playable character based on the idea of a false disguised identity! Revealing your true form as a Plasmoid feels like it could create some very thrilling character interactions!
say the fuck wot!
Plasmoids imitate humanoid body shapes, but they aren't actually disguised. They're just slime people.
That being said, that could be fixed with class features, like a warlock plasmoid with Mask of Many Faces.
If you want to make it really dangerous, have it approach the party like a regular slime. They get ready to fight a dumb, jiggly cube when suddenly it transforms into a man in armour mid charge, leveling its open palm at one of the players as a sword shoots from its arm.
Edit: I also remember someone else talking about sentiment humanoid slimes who became that way by consuming mainly humanoids, to the point they begin to take on physical and mental traits of the beings they’ve eaten. Eventually they may even stop acting hostile towards people and possibly even become friendly.
Only thing to remember is that they tend to be extremely mentally stunted by most standards. (Think Chunk from Goonies) This is just because they’re slimes, and honestly it’s for the best. Imagine gaining sentience and empathy just to realize you got it by eating dozens if not more than a hundred people.
This kinda gives me a cool idea for a party/campaign. Each member has some kind of dark secret and none of them are what they appear to be. Over time the events of the story will slowly force the truth to the surface. The party will learn that the bard is a werewolf or the wizard is a super well preserved litch or ogre barbarian is a polymorphed pixie. The players each keep their hidden forms secret and only the dm knows all the secrets. Maybe they use two character sheets. One for the person the others think they are and one for the real character. Maybe dm doesn’t even let the players know about this and each thinks they’re the only one. Or maybe the party forms because of the secrets. They’re a shadowy black oops group that can’t talk about they’re real identities for safety reasons. Or shady guy (possibly bbeg) threatens to expose them unless they join a party. Maybe they join because they know something on the journey to bbeg castle or in a dungeon or whatever could expose them and ruin the life they’ve built for themselves.
Just an idea. Feel free to steal it.
Black Oops Team is an oddly perfect way to describe an average adventuring party.
Ok yeah. That’s honestly a fair point lol. Still doesn’t change the fact that a party of secrets could be a fun idea.
@@kingwolf3044 100%, just something funny I noticsd
@@fliperdipper7037well if they are a bunch of people specifically chosen for some grand quest… it could work.
Clue: the movie did something similar
Guess what you now can basically play as this. They called plasmiods.
Man, I love the Monster of the Week videos; your videos really give me lots of inspiration for running new encounters and general campaign ideas. And I like seeing how far your production quality has come since the beginning. Love the videos, keep up the great work man!
Thanks so much! It’s comments like yours that keep me trying to improve!
True. I took his video on the Grisgol and made an entire plot arc out of it.
Sexy Slime had me confused, lol. Nice video mate.
This would work great as a traveling vendor, just don't have the party ask where the weapons came from
I see Ghaunadan as ooze lords, being able to control other mindless oozes to do the fighting for it.
I can absolutely picture these guys keeping other oozes and slimes with less intelligence as pets.
The perfect monster for locked-room mysteries.
Maybe when a Ghaunadan changes into their humanoid form for the first time, their form is very indistinct and basically just a human-shaped blob of slime, however as they gain more experience their humanoid form starts to become more detailed and specific until eventually they're completely convincing as a member of whatever race they're mimicking.
At first, they found it strange that the ooze had hundreds of indigestible reinforced arrows. That is, unti it turned tohuman form and began shooting them.
I like to think that the Ghaunadan are split into 'Clans' or something similar with each having a different humanoid form, or are created by different methods, one clan may be created by an angry god while another was spawned from a pool of condensed magic
Think about it, you power up one of these things and you have a fantasy T-1000
I think there was a celestial called something similar to the living choir. Also Selune’s Slivers and Shards would be cool.
terminator 2 plot vibes, skin wrapped warforged paladin has to protect an angsty teenage bard along with his paranoid ranger mother
The only thing I took away from this is that it's an sapient slime, thus I have to worry about bards seducing the things. I've long learned that if it can pass the harkness test the party Bard will try to fuck it. Often successfully despite improbabilities.
(8:23) “NANOMACHINES SON!!! They harden in response to physical trauma.”
7:30 how about a necromancer?
"I used to be an adventurer like you, until I stepped in slime up to my knee." - Bone Rider, atop his skeleton steed
I want this as a playable race. Could you imagine being a sentient slime with the powers of a Changeling but be able to disarm the bbeg if he attacks you? If anyone makes stats for a playable race of this please send the link. I want to use it in my next player campaign so bad.
One of my favorite monsters. Great video, thanks for the write up.
Ignore the single humanoid form and suddenly you have a fantasy T1000
Every second I was more and more like a pc race would be so cool in this video, but yeah an idea for a pc race, maybe you could have a sub race get the melee stuff like catching a blade, a sub race thats more stealthy and can changing into multiple different humaniod forms, and one that's more elemental and it's ooze could do damage of an element of it's choosing and it gains immunity to that damage
Quothe the Bard: I would *BLEEP* it.
Rest of Party: Please for the love of [Insert Patron God/Infernal] , NO!
Bard 5 Rounds later with acid burns all over body: Totally worth it!
Rest of Party: [FacePalms Collectively]
Imagine if that results in a half-slime lmao
You know, I was just thinking of infiltrator style monsters the other day and effectively giving them class levels, then you post this. Totally using these guys next chance I get.
Anyway, thanks for another great video!
Monk: I dive feet first into them, kicking them into next week!
*One failed athletics check later*
DM: Oh buddy do I have a surprise for you...
This is awesome. Thank you for converting this to 5th Edition. I hope you continue to do more conversions of creatures from older editions to 5th Edition.
I hope to! Thanks!
👍👍 Possible workaround for the Armor Problem (getting your gear through the small gaps that your body can squeeze through):
Scale Mail and/or Lamellar.
Pass those pieces through one by one if necessary and have them float up through your body to emerge sticking to your surface/skin 😁
_"This... stuff... came squirting out from under the door. But the sound it made... it was grinding, scraping something over the stone floor. More and more of it bubbled up from the doorway and it grew upwards, this creature, and its skin became steel. That horrible scraping, it was fragments of armor! Hundreds of them! It carried them inside itself somehow and then practically covered itself in them, the shape of a man! It looked right at me, through me, and I swear it had coins over its eyes, like a corpse. I looked across to Olaf and he was smiling, reaching out to greet the thing like it was an old friend! He starts passing it his keys, and it looks at me again with those wet coin eyes... I passed out. And I never saw Olaf again. A couple of people say they've seen him round the market after dark... I hope I never do"_
I think it would be really cool to have one of these things be slinking around a town or estate of some kind and sort of admire one particular person. Then when some sort of tragedy befalls that person, the creature then takes on the humanoid form of that person. This would be a really neat plot hook of some kind where the party thought this NPC had died but suddenly, bam, they are back and acting kind of different.
Welp now you can build Remiru from "that time i reincarnated as a slime". Good job DaD
I wanna play one of these as a roguelock. Not just for all the cool features that would make this race literally the best roguelock ever, but also because I was rewatching Adventure Time the other day and I wanna recreate Jake's Key Hand scene with a party who don't yet know I'm a slime
Good to see another monster of the week video, I was starting to miss this series
I’m back in full force!
Found your vids recently. I've been DMing for 20 years now, and you're doing what I've been doing on my own for decades. You're doing great work. I signed up for the patreon, just because what you're doing is amazing. Thank you for doing this.
"It can't see."
"It has eyes"
"The entire body is its sensory organ."
"It uses its eyes to gaze at things"
I have questions xD
Imagine, the paladin sprints to the front lines, skewers the slime person to the hilt with his claymore, before failing the athletic check on purpose, and calling a lightning smite down onto the improvised lightning rod
Oof
I like them being a artificer experiment or master work.
I like the idea that the Ghaunadan gains sentience from a regular slime consuming humanoids and over time. The combined essence that makes up the personalities of those that died create the foundation of the identity the ghaunadan develops over the course of hundreds or years. If it absorbed heroes, it becomes a ghaunadan that uses the frame work of their lives to decide I'm I good. If those it absorbed were evil creatures, it is likely to become evil. I like the same with its appearance, it is more of an amalgamation of the general appearance or the once that are the most dominate traits.
*sniff* *sniff*
I smell a new player race.
Fun second encounter with disguised ooze villain would be making him suddenly significantly smaller, because he split of and created child.
Thank you so much. I am running a juiblex themed campaign and this fits so perfectly and fixes many issues I have!
I think a neat idea would be that the Ghaunada can change into any humanoid it wants to, but chooses not to. Because, for each new form it takes, a new personality is created for that form, so every time it changes itself into its humanoid form, its personalities will compete with each other for which form it turns into, and you need to roll a die each time it transforms to see who it becomes.
2 personalities is a coin toss.
3 personalities 1d3
4 personalities 1d4
And so on.
Each personality could have its own fighting style, and motives that likely differ greatly from other personalities.
And, if it makes too many, it loses its ability to change into a humanoid entirely.
This monster gives me some serious The Thing vibes.
It’s always interesting to encounter an Odo (Star Trek DS9)
My best friend used to doodle on his character sheet while playing. In a campaign I was running featuring the god Ghaunadaur, I noticed he drew a picture of Ghaunadaur wearing a top hat and monocle. Below it he had written "Jaunty Ghaunadaur, Man About Town"
those pics are certainly sexy looking slimes! Looks like a good candidate for an anime village that needs to breed mwahaha. I want this monster as my next PC!!!
I could see one as a spy and thief. They take a form and it's fairly static, but they're still slime- they'd be able to alter the dimensions of interior body cavities- I see that helping a bard expand their range a lot.
I kinda want to play one of these guys.
They would make a really awesome player race! Imagine a ranger with a little slime pet.
If yoy play a good aligned character I wonder what things they would have to say about their own kind.
A quick way to get a playable race version would be to re-theme an Eberron Changeling, maybe swap out one or two features
as of this year, you can now do just that :) Look up plasmoids.
I really like this creature. I also really like the idea of sentient oozes, kinda like the Oblex. Have you ever considered making a playable race of the Ghuanadon?
I was totally thinking of this as a player race. Like I was balancing in my head and trying to think about it. It's a really cool option.
My favorite ooze is Living Steel. Your stat block could be used for those as well. Lol
Living steel is awesome and you’re totally right! Just a few minor fluff changes and it would work really well. Definitely going to keep that in mind for my own games.
@@DungeonDad I was playing way back in 2nd. And my character (urban ranger basically) found one. So he turned it into a pet of sorts. Just kept feeding it iron etc etc. And I became its mom of sorts. Lol
But our dm liked running oddball adventures and we enjoyed playing the oddball characters.
@@DracosDiabolis lol, just on the odd like at some tavern someone wonders why some elf has a living ball of metal for a pet and is feeding it iron shavings from the blacks smiths grindstone ketch tray.... accaly i just game my self a nice NPC idea of soem old ranger turned blacksmith has one of thoes living steel blobs as a pet and for the most part the critter enjoys sleeping under the grindstone because of all the metal shavings.
@@lechking941 could you imagine if a living steel blob crawled inside of a warforge and the 2 merged into one being. Lol
@@DracosDiabolis hmm eather the warforged would be more than likly killed or the blob eats the metal parts of it and the wooden/stone and other non metal things stay... i dont know the living steel much so hard to really say how that would be
Rather than drop any other weapons it’s using, I can see the Ghuanadan creating another limb to wield said weapon instead. And since it can take human form, I’m imagining this sort of shiva like entity with multiple arms each with different weapons, the intelligent ooze being a collector of armaments and such. Can also see it tricking adventures into think it a normal slime monster loaded with armor and weapons, luring them closer and springing it’s surprise attacks while their caught off guard. Would be a pretty interesting character to put into a campaign, maybe even have one that decided to be an adventurer itself even, whatever you want to go with.
so this is basically a wereooze but on reverse, wich is pretty cool actually
I never thought of it that way but when you’re right you’re right.
I've homebrewed something almost identical to this decades ago, the Petrol Slime. I pulled out my little DM notebook right after watching Phantoms. And, as you imagined possible, I had a PC version of it. I guess on some level all of us AD&D fans are mentally linked somehow. Oh, my version had its natural form as more or less an oil slick... like the movie Phantoms. It's an old scifi-horror flick if you never saw it... still one of my favorite movies.
I just imagine one or more of these slimes running a brothel front and a thieves guild underneath.
It’s all of them and more, and has been dicking around with the party since the minute they left town for funsies.
This monster is a wolf in sheep’s clothing. It would be cool if it “gets hungry” whenever it runs into an especially stupid person and, thusly takes interest in the dumb character in the party.
I also like the idea of a serial-killer style Ghaunadan that has a weird quirk where it doesn’t eat one part of the body like the skin or eyes.
just a thought this made me have:
"so you're a sentient ozz... how did that happen?"
"well I was going along like you do eating whatever I came across. then I ate some weird paper thing and now i think things"
"...well ok"
Seems reasonable
You have great content man. Keep up the good work.
Thanks dude! I appreciate the encouragement!
Sounds like something that'd make a good player race
Honestly I think I could take inspiration from this outside of D&D or whatever (I don't play these games much, and the times I have have been the one campaign my and a few irl friends are doing (Which got reset once due to important stuff going missing irl. Lol)). Slime that's gained full sentience and can use a humanoid form is just a cool idea. :)
I had this on autoplay and was wondering for several minutes, "...an iguanadon can _what?"_
You pursue the suspect down the alley, around a corner, zigzagging through the back streets of the city. They disappear from your sight for a moment.
You run to where you last saw them, but they're gone. It's a dead end alley. Against the wall is a sparkling clean storm grate.
Nice. Iv an idea for an assassin trying to slip into a senators room and the party has to protect them from the sentient slime
I want to see a sentient slime be played like Santana from JoJo's part 2.
Absorbing strong enemies into its body like theyre nothing, dashing through vents, entering an NPC's body and exploding it like a meat baloon...
It would be wild!
Just recreate the whole Santana vs vampire fight with a zombie or a goblin as the introduction to the monster for the party
I wish I had found this channel a year ago. In an old campaign I ran the Ghaunadan could take the form of someone they killed. They were stuck with that one form. If they wanted to change their humanoid form, they would have to find a new victim to kill and steal their appearance.
I can't stop hearing" iguanodon " in My head thats a gelatine dinosaur
i like the idea of the party being sent so go find a friendly wizard npc by someone but are warned "they're very weird" but the party kinda shrugs it off like sure we are too whatever. they go to the wizard tower and find a slime in the study with robes and books and a focus floating in it and the party is all "oh shit the wizard got ate oh no what do we do!?!" and the slimy form shakes almost like it's laughing as it reforms i to a giggling gooey wizard saying "i'm sorry but i couldn't resist you should have seen the looks on your faces!"
Dilute a slime witch in the west. It's melting melting but not gone.
I'm interested in the prospect of this creature acquiring skin from a victim, hardening underneath it and essentially doing its best Doppleganger impression. Possibly even going full Jeepers Creepers and collecting different features. While probably not bbeg material it could serve as a consistent foil or recurring nuisance. Slipping away before death in a crevasse or through a locked door.
I also like the idea of making the serial killer one that can shift their humanoid form. maybe as something a bit unique to that particular gunadon.
I can see an easy hack to mix them with doppelgangers in your setting, if you easily do that. You could even go further & make shape changing predators totally amorphic and able to shift into oozes thus doppelgangers are ALSO mimics, it's just easier to rest for a few decades as a mimic & then a meal might bring itself to you.
If you want to make a world where they are a PC race I can see them as having their own racial appearance, like humanoids that look like they are made of a gelatin like substance that's colored but clear throughout. As a PC race I can picture them getting a negative racial modifier on deception checks if you go with the "Jell-O men" look by giving them a color changing trait that matches their emotions. Kind of hard to say "no, it's fine," and be believed when you are turning cherry red with anger, or deep blue with despair.
I can see a Ghaunadan aiding High Elves against the Drow as a NPC, maybe even a whole underground network trying to purge the Underdark of Loth's worshipers entirely.
but destroying a loth's network is however QUITE hard and they also will likly sceme your demies later for it regardless but hm brains ticking away on ideas it just wont ever be able to do.
I will endeavor to convert it to Pathfinder 2 for my Starfinder 2 game, sounds like a fun sci fi horror.
Great viseo, great monster, going to use it and cant wait.
Where was the link to the lore video? Thanks again. Love this channel.
I am going to use it as the form a mage now has after his obsession with oozes led to this accident. He is a rogue drow mage in a group trying to run out the remnants of a fallen dwarven clan from their home to make a profit dealing with the underarm and the yuan ti in the jungle.
The party is currently in the dungeon and I am changing the mage to a slime mage now. Going to be awssome
Thank you for the literary ideas.
You're so welcome!
okay.. I just thought of the best thing, and I wanna do it now...
Y'know the trope of the shop keepers? Where they're all the same dude, or all very weirdly conveniently placed? /it's just the same Ghaunadan/. Moving from network to network of tunnels keeping tabs on the party but trying to keep up disguises between each portal. Which lead to the scenario in my mind of the Ghaunadan slipping up...
"You approach the shopkeeper who has a wide smile and welcomes the party warmly. By name. 'Obongo welcome! Another round of your favorite ale?' The shopkeeper says, going to polish a mug that isn't there before catching himself."
... Then have the party go back and forth between several stores and the Ghanuadan just gets more and more out of breath trying to keep up with the party, the party faking it out and catching the shop keeper reform itself from a mass of green slime solidifying into their favorite tavern owner.
This would be the best long con ever that wouldn't really show up until the party starts to fast travel at higher levels.
Lmao that poor Ghanuadan
Guess i know where the inspiration for the plasmoid came from
In a big way!
that and the popularity of that slime anime
A possible idea for them could be that it was an ooze that underwent a mutation of sorts when preying on a humanoid creature to the point that they also absorbed their victims soul so their humanoid form is that of their victim (could play it as either sinister or tragic depending on whether or not they retain the memories of their victim).
I'm planning on using these for the avatars of a hive mind!
I wonder if they're able to go from Ooze to Ooze/Humanoid?
Would be cool to have a playable version of a monster that isn't inherently a Monstrous Humanoid but can choose to be Humanoid.
I Love Watching This In The Distant Future Where Plasmoids Exists
This thing would be perfect for an ambush encounter. Especially it is impersonating a lord or something.
It could be like an LMD, for an evil lord and when party goes to take out the evil lord and end up fighting this thing instead.
What about a noble one who everyone thinks is a vampire due to their ability to charm people? So the party thinks they're going to kill a vampire and then they just morph into a giant slime monster.
I love the idea that the party is indebted to or allied with a shady organisation, and they are ordered to assassinate a mysterious character that lives in the town, only for that person to turn out to be a Ghaunadan. Just imagine the rogue backstabbing the person, and them just going... "Sigh... again? At least I got a nice dagger out of it... *roll for initiative*", or for the wizard to try to kill them, them pretending to be dead, and them appearing in the town the next day, same as always.
I want to use this as a playable race.
Personal idea: the Ghaunadan takes form of the first individual they absorbed and also take in the memories.
A series of murders takes place, the first being of a small child, then a while latter members of a notorious gang start to end up half absorbed, what appears to be dissolved in acid… the ghaunadan had found the small child and absorbed it, taking on its memories and appearance. Filled with the emotions of the child in their final moment the Ghanadan goes after the members of the gang associated with the kid’s murder.
Imagine having your vorpal longsword being taken by this thing
Hmmm..... a lot of this stuff would kind of apply to Plasmoids. Neat.
What if an infant ooze needs prolonged contact with a humanoid so it can learn to take humanoid shape, like learning to walk. So the parent would need to either capture or convince a humanoid for it's offspring.
There might be two very differing groups living by different philosophies. One group not caring if the humanoid if willing, the other believing deeply that consent is required.
From there the possibilities just stack.
Going to use this as my mineoplasm in my mtg campaign!
The bard's weakness