Ooze Class

You are a sentient ooze formed around a cluster of gems you absorbed in your days as a more primal creature. Your form is held together by a thin membrane through which you can absorb water and sustenance. Your sentience and sense of self is new and alien to you, only recently after absorbing many gems into your body, did you find the capacity for conscious thought. You have formed your shape to more closely resemble other sentients, forming pseudopods to emulate arms and legs. You keep your “heart” in your “torso” or “head”, hiding it under robes or behind masks.

 

The Gemheart Ooze is another product of the setting my players helped make with Wasteland Without Epithet years ago. A player decided his chosen people would be oozes and detailed them as basically fantasy roombas. The real challenge came from making them a full class. We decided that sometimes an ooze would pick up gems while slithering around. Every gem in Hodas has a small amount of background magic and enough of them in one place can lead to interesting results.

 

The Gemheart is meant to fill out a role similar to a wizard in a setting where humans are greatly diminished in number. They lean hard into being creatures of magic with a lot of power behind them, letting the Goblin class fill out the more scholarly side of the wizard. Also, they tend to name themselves after objects they vaguely recall from their time as a more simple creature, such as Coins, Bottle, Pulley, or Puddle.

 

I decided to post this one this week because a Judge who's content I absolutely love asked about them. Please go check out their blog over on 19 Sided Die I feel I've done too many monsters and magic items lately, we gotta shake things up sometimes.

 

Gemheart Ooze 

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