Canon says how they eat (and mentions they can't eat inorganic matter. To the point of eating an entire wooden ship eventually), but there's no mention on how fast they can eat / round.
Just that they eat when bored, when hungry, when there's nothing better to do, or if not eating legit tonnes, drink their body weight in liquid for up to a year or so.
But you'd think with the whole "Instead of Bite Attack, they use a slime's digestion attack for eating", that there'd be something in the chara sheet other than Unarmed Attack.
That's arguably "lore" mentioned in prior editions not "canon" in 5e. The only canon thing about plasmoid metabolism in 5e is in the spell jammer book:
They consume food by osmosis, the way an amoeba does, and excrete waste through tiny pores.
It seems in 2e, there may have been plasmoids that could greatly increase mass through intake of fluids and solids ... that's in the Forgotten Realms wiki, but it credits a non existent article in the AD&D 2e wiki. Other editions had greater allowance for non small and medium sized PC species, 5e not so much.
In any case, 5e plasmoids don't have a special unarmed attack where they can somehow weaponize osmosis. Like maybe a plasmoid could lay down next to a incapacitated enemy and press up to their exposed skin and maybe start breaking it down into nutrients that can enter the plasmoids body at like a cost of 1 hp per hour or day or whatever, but plasmoids are not gelatinous cubes any more than humans are velociraptors.
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In any case, 5e plasmoids don't have a special unarmed attack where they can somehow weaponize osmosis. Like maybe a plasmoid could lay down next to a incapacitated enemy and press up to their exposed skin and maybe start breaking it down into nutrients that can enter the plasmoids body at like a cost of 1 hp per hour or day or whatever, but plasmoids are not gelatinous cubes any more than humans are velociraptors.
I'd assume that Plasmoids can do as much damage by trying to eat somebody as any other species can do by biting.
Maybe, but normal people's bite attacks never canonically destroyed entire ships before. Like that's usually outside a normal persons' ability (like personally, could never bite a door in half, much less eat an entire wooden ship with my teeth.)
No, while they're creature type is Ooze, it's stated that they're a mass of cells that can freely alter their form and function (sensory cells, muscle fibers, digestive cells, basically every part of them is like a stem cell. But sentient.
Maybe, but normal people's bite attacks never canonically destroyed entire ships before. Like that's usually outside a normal persons' ability (like personally, could never bite a door in half, much less eat an entire wooden ship with my teeth.)
Anything that shows up in a fan wiki without citation should be regarded as dubious. If you wanted to devote years of your life to chewing on a wooden ship, then you could eventually do some significant damage to it. Same goes for a plasmoid trying to digest it.
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Canon says how they eat (and mentions they can't eat inorganic matter. To the point of eating an entire wooden ship eventually), but there's no mention on how fast they can eat / round.
Just that they eat when bored, when hungry, when there's nothing better to do, or if not eating legit tonnes, drink their body weight in liquid for up to a year or so.
But you'd think with the whole "Instead of Bite Attack, they use a slime's digestion attack for eating", that there'd be something in the chara sheet other than Unarmed Attack.
That's arguably "lore" mentioned in prior editions not "canon" in 5e. The only canon thing about plasmoid metabolism in 5e is in the spell jammer book:
It seems in 2e, there may have been plasmoids that could greatly increase mass through intake of fluids and solids ... that's in the Forgotten Realms wiki, but it credits a non existent article in the AD&D 2e wiki. Other editions had greater allowance for non small and medium sized PC species, 5e not so much.
In any case, 5e plasmoids don't have a special unarmed attack where they can somehow weaponize osmosis. Like maybe a plasmoid could lay down next to a incapacitated enemy and press up to their exposed skin and maybe start breaking it down into nutrients that can enter the plasmoids body at like a cost of 1 hp per hour or day or whatever, but plasmoids are not gelatinous cubes any more than humans are velociraptors.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
LolXD! Both need to give a thanks, and say that answer was hilarious. *Gives cookie*
I'd assume that Plasmoids can do as much damage by trying to eat somebody as any other species can do by biting.
Maybe, but normal people's bite attacks never canonically destroyed entire ships before. Like that's usually outside a normal persons' ability (like personally, could never bite a door in half, much less eat an entire wooden ship with my teeth.)
It probably absorbs the food like all other single felled organism. Wait are plasmoids singled celled?
No, while they're creature type is Ooze, it's stated that they're a mass of cells that can freely alter their form and function (sensory cells, muscle fibers, digestive cells, basically every part of them is like a stem cell. But sentient.
Anything that shows up in a fan wiki without citation should be regarded as dubious. If you wanted to devote years of your life to chewing on a wooden ship, then you could eventually do some significant damage to it. Same goes for a plasmoid trying to digest it.
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Thanks for telling me