The sapphire ooze is by far my favorite type. They are good, and intelligent, so you could give it cleric or life oracle levels to basically turn it into SCP 999
Such a helpful resource when you try to determine what brand of dungeon roomba your BBEG has in this particular secret base excellent presentation as always
Have been anticipating this video for quite a while, as Oozes are an utterly fascinating creature type, despite them usually being mindless and reduced to worldbuilding afterthought. I myself am currently playing a Chameleon Gnome Transmutation Wizard that has a whacky theory that all life used to be free of form and a civilization of sentient slimes (a reference to one of my original settings where they are one of the five playable species by the name of Lein'o'cant, "free of form" in elven) that ruled both Golarion and the First world before the first gods arrived and forced the vast majority of life into forms that fit their image, with Aakriti being one of the few who escaped such a fate and ascended to godhood themselves.
Oh man new vid cool! I don't know if you know this but there are very few ways of controlling a slime in pathfinder and one of those ways is being in the shifter class. There's an ooze archetype that's typically considered evil but not for any reason that can be backed up. A shifter that can become ooze and control ooze, very neat.
Yeah, it doesn't make sense that they'd be inherently evil unless it was a subclass that depended on something like the patronage of the demon lord Jubilex. If it's just shapeshifting there's no reason a good adventurer couldn't use it - it's not like acid, poison, or bludgeoning damage is inherently more wicked than an arrow or sword.
Black puddings are my personal favorite. In my homebrew setting in the sewers of some cities, black puddings and other oozes are magically sealed and eat on the detritus and offal flushed down there. Thanks for the video!
Slimes are definitely one of my top 3 favorite fantasy creature types, with goblinoids and undead up there with them, in no particular order. There's just something charming about the traditionally "low-level" monsters, although when I first played original Baldur's Gate, the oozes were actually busted if you didn't have a magic weapon yet, a very different enemy experience compared to the Dragon Quest slimes I was used to. I like the mind moppet because I think it would make a cool little familiar.
If course you could probably find a way to make the least interesting monsters in TTRPG history an interesting video! It was an enjoyable watch, and now I'm going back to re-watch the Demons video next 😅
I love that Pathfinder has a Grey Goo scenario. One could imagine such swarms being anathema to gods of nature or simplicity because of their complex artificial origins, and perhaps they would grant magnetic or EMP spells that ignore biological life and selectively destroy anything electronic. Like localized divine or primal Carrington Events. A Golarian nation might selectively breed oozes to be less attracted to flesh and more to waste, mold, fungus etc because they'd make any medieval or rural sewer system much less likely to spread dangerous diseases like e. coli. or dysentery. Akin to the real-world idea of reintroducing oysters to city coasts and harbors to clean water by acting as filters for organic and inorganic waste. One could imagine a niche guild maintained by temples of deities of civics or medicine that travels the country monitoring breeding, transporting oozes where they are needed and killing off oozes that become too aggressive. You could have adventure hooks like unregulated alchemy in a city has resulted in chromatic oozes in stagnant pools in the sewers, or perhaps the civic authorities hire the party for a routine cull of overpopulated low-level oozes that leads to the discovery of wickedness beneath the city...
Honestly if any players ever ask me why there are so many oozes in the sewers of Golarion's cities I'll just point them to this post. You're absolutely right, in a fantasy world is a perfectly hygenic disposal system. Plus unless you're a crazy loot-hungry adventurer, you're not *supposed* to be messing around in the sewers.
@@TheMythKeeper It could be a rite of passage. In rural areas you clear out goblins, but near cities goblins/kobolds etc are long gone so new adventurers get hired to do a pass through the undercity. "I remember my first sewer contract - my missus wouldn't so much as glance at me for a month afterwards! Some people forget, but you're definitely gonna want to know which bathhouse you're headed to afterwards. If Alya is still running hers over on Knight's Row, drop my name and tell you're coming from a "civics course" - that's what I used to call those contracts. She's a devout follower of Abadar so she's quite keen on 'for the good of the city', and she'll get you feeling top-notch in no time. Oh, and don't prepare any fire magic or grenades...last time a group forgot that it cost 5 lives, almost a hundred gold in repairs, and all of downtown reeked for days."
Slimes, Jellies & Puddings Always a fun group of guys to bring out the childish-side of players. They tend to hang out with mimics after surviving another hard infiltration attempt at the caverns.
My first PF2 session had us fighting oozes that could eat our weapons; making our martials totally useless. in hindsight, It was probly a black puding, but a blood ooze would have also fit the theame if the dungon.
@@TheMythKeeper I spent the combat trying to find an alternate, nonviolent way into the next room. ... You see, the slimes were being summoned by a crippled fire giant, who was forced against his will to block our exit. ... I couldn't kill the slimes, and I didn't want to kill the giant.
I never really liked Oozes, but the lore in Pathfinder is really creative-so many possible origins and themes at play. And some of them are actually pretty cool. In particular, I’m kind of taken with the idea of an Id Ooze NPC sage or scholar of some kind to act as employer or ally of the heroes.
There is 1 suggestion I have concerning some of your videos; I find the last few moments of some of them, like this video, to be unexpected and abrupt, which leaves me asking, Is there a part 2? Did I miss Something? Just a bit jarring. Also, I very much Love that you cover the lesser Gods and the Greater Gods, but perhaps they might get their own videos / series so you can go into things like their sacred colors, favored weapons and such?
I'd love to see something about the Shackles. I've been hit up to run Skull & Shackles again and it would certainly be helpful. Thanks for all your videos.
I'd like some videos on basic creatures like goblins, hobgoblins, and kobolds. Like the little guys that show up early in campaigns then become cannon fodder later on.
This is a great idea but I'd also be remiss if I didn't point out that I've discussed some of these already in my ancestry guides. Goblins appear in my Smallfolk ancestry guide, and both Kobolds and Hobgoblins appear in either my imaginatively titled "More Ancestries" or "Even More Ancestries!" which are up on the channel already
@@Wayne3 - Yeah when creatures are monsters but have also become 'uncommon' ancestries in 2E I had to decide where to talk about those creatures. Ultimately I landed on ancestry guides, but it could have easily gone the other way. Bugbears for example are in my "Classic Monsters" video, so I have goblinoids literally all over the place.
You know, this might just be a coincidence. But the tar zombies kind of remind me of the creatures from the movie "Return of the Living Dead." Also, I feel I would be remiss if I didn't mention that the carnivorous ooze didn't appear to come the closest to the Blob that inspired all the oozes.
@@TheMythKeeper It actually amazes me but despite being, for the most part, a fantasy game Pathfinder is still able to squeeze in so many different pop-culture references from multiple genres.
The sapphire ooze is by far my favorite type. They are good, and intelligent, so you could give it cleric or life oracle levels to basically turn it into SCP 999
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Finally the best creature type
Ever since i was a kid beginning D&D, oozes and pudding and the like were always my favorite monster types….no idea why
Well..best is relative.
Best at getting through tight spaces maybe.
The floor was skeletons holding up gelatinous cubes the whole time, but you had a perception roll of 1
Secret of the ooze
It be cool if there was a class/feat that could allow a player to use oozes as armor like Venom or Carnage. The Venom ranger subclass
There is probably a slightly re-skinned version of the 1E synthecist summoner that would more or less be exactly this...
Giant amoebas? IIRC, they were in the first Bestiary.
Such a helpful resource when you try to determine what brand of dungeon roomba your BBEG has in this particular secret base
excellent presentation as always
Have been anticipating this video for quite a while, as Oozes are an utterly fascinating creature type, despite them usually being mindless and reduced to worldbuilding afterthought. I myself am currently playing a Chameleon Gnome Transmutation Wizard that has a whacky theory that all life used to be free of form and a civilization of sentient slimes (a reference to one of my original settings where they are one of the five playable species by the name of Lein'o'cant, "free of form" in elven) that ruled both Golarion and the First world before the first gods arrived and forced the vast majority of life into forms that fit their image, with Aakriti being one of the few who escaped such a fate and ascended to godhood themselves.
I really like that as an origin story of Aakriti.
Oh man new vid cool! I don't know if you know this but there are very few ways of controlling a slime in pathfinder and one of those ways is being in the shifter class. There's an ooze archetype that's typically considered evil but not for any reason that can be backed up. A shifter that can become ooze and control ooze, very neat.
"Evil" is in the eye of the beholder anyway - become an ooze master!
Yeah, it doesn't make sense that they'd be inherently evil unless it was a subclass that depended on something like the patronage of the demon lord Jubilex. If it's just shapeshifting there's no reason a good adventurer couldn't use it - it's not like acid, poison, or bludgeoning damage is inherently more wicked than an arrow or sword.
I want a chromatic ooze, for a pet, so badly.
Oozes: when you don't want to bother with moral quandries in your session. Thanks for the video,
You bet!
Black puddings are my personal favorite. In my homebrew setting in the sewers of some cities, black puddings and other oozes are magically sealed and eat on the detritus and offal flushed down there. Thanks for the video!
Slimes are definitely one of my top 3 favorite fantasy creature types, with goblinoids and undead up there with them, in no particular order. There's just something charming about the traditionally "low-level" monsters, although when I first played original Baldur's Gate, the oozes were actually busted if you didn't have a magic weapon yet, a very different enemy experience compared to the Dragon Quest slimes I was used to.
I like the mind moppet because I think it would make a cool little familiar.
If course you could probably find a way to make the least interesting monsters in TTRPG history an interesting video!
It was an enjoyable watch, and now I'm going back to re-watch the Demons video next 😅
Least interesting! Outrageous! Oozes are classic villains ;-)
Ah, perfect for my Oozemorph/Assassin build. Thank you kindly, Mr Mythkeeper :)
Now that's a cool character concept
I love that Pathfinder has a Grey Goo scenario. One could imagine such swarms being anathema to gods of nature or simplicity because of their complex artificial origins, and perhaps they would grant magnetic or EMP spells that ignore biological life and selectively destroy anything electronic. Like localized divine or primal Carrington Events.
A Golarian nation might selectively breed oozes to be less attracted to flesh and more to waste, mold, fungus etc because they'd make any medieval or rural sewer system much less likely to spread dangerous diseases like e. coli. or dysentery. Akin to the real-world idea of reintroducing oysters to city coasts and harbors to clean water by acting as filters for organic and inorganic waste. One could imagine a niche guild maintained by temples of deities of civics or medicine that travels the country monitoring breeding, transporting oozes where they are needed and killing off oozes that become too aggressive. You could have adventure hooks like unregulated alchemy in a city has resulted in chromatic oozes in stagnant pools in the sewers, or perhaps the civic authorities hire the party for a routine cull of overpopulated low-level oozes that leads to the discovery of wickedness beneath the city...
Honestly if any players ever ask me why there are so many oozes in the sewers of Golarion's cities I'll just point them to this post. You're absolutely right, in a fantasy world is a perfectly hygenic disposal system. Plus unless you're a crazy loot-hungry adventurer, you're not *supposed* to be messing around in the sewers.
@@TheMythKeeper It could be a rite of passage. In rural areas you clear out goblins, but near cities goblins/kobolds etc are long gone so new adventurers get hired to do a pass through the undercity.
"I remember my first sewer contract - my missus wouldn't so much as glance at me for a month afterwards! Some people forget, but you're definitely gonna want to know which bathhouse you're headed to afterwards. If Alya is still running hers over on Knight's Row, drop my name and tell you're coming from a "civics course" - that's what I used to call those contracts. She's a devout follower of Abadar so she's quite keen on 'for the good of the city', and she'll get you feeling top-notch in no time.
Oh, and don't prepare any fire magic or grenades...last time a group forgot that it cost 5 lives, almost a hundred gold in repairs, and all of downtown reeked for days."
@@ColinGrym Haha! Yes! The bit about fire magic is priceless.
Perfect timing. I'm starting the slithering in a few weeks. Helps me incorporate more lore.
Awesome!
Slimes, Jellies & Puddings
Always a fun group of guys to bring out the childish-side of players.
They tend to hang out with mimics after surviving another hard infiltration attempt at the caverns.
Its basically Christmas
Haha! Thank you!
Gelatinous Cubes are just the average Lich's Roomba, nothing to be afraid of.
My first PF2 session had us fighting oozes that could eat our weapons; making our martials totally useless.
in hindsight,
It was probly a black puding, but a blood ooze would have also fit the theame if the dungon.
That was a brutal GM... Did you punch them to death?
@@TheMythKeeper
I spent the combat trying to find an alternate, nonviolent way into the next room.
...
You see, the slimes were being summoned by a crippled fire giant, who was forced against his will to block our exit.
...
I couldn't kill the slimes, and I didn't want to kill the giant.
I never really liked Oozes, but the lore in Pathfinder is really creative-so many possible origins and themes at play. And some of them are actually pretty cool. In particular, I’m kind of taken with the idea of an Id Ooze NPC sage or scholar of some kind to act as employer or ally of the heroes.
One thing Dnd and pathfinder can agree on is watching the new guy die to oozes is always funny.
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Each new vid such a bright spot in my week!
What a nice comment to read 🙂
Just wanted to say I really enjoy the content and format. Since you engage quickly, I know you will see this. Thank you!
There is 1 suggestion I have concerning some of your videos; I find the last few moments of some of them, like this video, to be unexpected and abrupt, which leaves me asking, Is there a part 2? Did I miss Something? Just a bit jarring. Also, I very much Love that you cover the lesser Gods and the Greater Gods, but perhaps they might get their own videos / series so you can go into things like their sacred colors, favored weapons and such?
Thanks for the notes, I really appreciate the constructive criticism. I'll look into some more organic outro type stuff for my videos in future.
Slime lore!
So it is!
I'd love to see something about the Shackles. I've been hit up to run Skull & Shackles again and it would certainly be helpful. Thanks for all your videos.
It's right around the corner. In fact, its already up for my Clubmembers. ~3 weeks out for main channel.
I'd like some videos on basic creatures like goblins, hobgoblins, and kobolds. Like the little guys that show up early in campaigns then become cannon fodder later on.
This is a great idea but I'd also be remiss if I didn't point out that I've discussed some of these already in my ancestry guides. Goblins appear in my Smallfolk ancestry guide, and both Kobolds and Hobgoblins appear in either my imaginatively titled "More Ancestries" or "Even More Ancestries!" which are up on the channel already
@@TheMythKeeper Excellent thank you, I didn't think about that and was just looking at the creature features. 🤦🏻♂️
@@Wayne3 - Yeah when creatures are monsters but have also become 'uncommon' ancestries in 2E I had to decide where to talk about those creatures. Ultimately I landed on ancestry guides, but it could have easily gone the other way. Bugbears for example are in my "Classic Monsters" video, so I have goblinoids literally all over the place.
Love the content man, been driving from Alaska to Maine and downloaded a bunch of your videos.
Hope they made the drive easier! Cheers!
the best place indeed!
Great monster type!
Danged straight you’re the best source of Pathfinder lore on RUclips!! you’re also oozing with potential for further growth...
I’ll see myself out.
Haha! Oozing with potential! I see what you did there.
👏👏👏
Shoggalolth
Positive comment
Positive reply!
My friends GROAN when i plop an ooze out
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Don't forget about the stealthy ones that sneak into my nose in the spring.
🤣🤣🤣
The goo!
You know, this might just be a coincidence. But the tar zombies kind of remind me of the creatures from the movie "Return of the Living Dead."
Also, I feel I would be remiss if I didn't mention that the carnivorous ooze didn't appear to come the closest to the Blob that inspired all the oozes.
You're right on that count I think!
@@TheMythKeeper It actually amazes me but despite being, for the most part, a fantasy game Pathfinder is still able to squeeze in so many different pop-culture references from multiple genres.
Another excellent video, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it
Great work, keep ‘em coming!!!! 💪💪
I think undead has gotten missed from the big play list
Thank you sir! That's corrected now
@@TheMythKeeper no worries
The funny part is I live near where the blob was filmed, Phoenixville PA
Nice! I was jazzed to be able to use that footage in this video.
@TheMythKeeper one day I hope you can do a deep dive into each of the playable classes available in pathfinder, both regular and savage worlds
@@robfrank3423 Eventually! 😅
Yes! The oozes are here!
It's about time!