Blood Ooze

Armor Class 8

Hit Points 75 (10d8 + 30)

Speed 25 ft.

STR

18 (+4)

DEX

6 (-2)

CON

18 (+4)

INT

5 (-3)

WIS

12 (+1)

CHA

1 (-5)

Saving Throws STR +7, CON +7

Damage Resistances Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Nonmagical Attacks; Bludgeoning, Piercing, and Slashing from Magic Weapons

Condition Immunities , , , , ,

Senses 60 ft., Passive Perception 14

Languages Any languages it's former hosts knew in life, but can't speak unless it has a current host.

Challenge 6 (2,300 XP)

Proficiency Bonus +3

Traits

Amorphous. The blood ooze can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing.

Detect Sentience. The blood ooze can sense the presence and location of any creature within 300 feet of it that has an Intelligence of 3 or higher, regardless of interposing barriers, unless the creature is protected by a mind blank spell.

Actions

Pseudopod. Melee Weapon Attack: +4 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. it: 6 (1d6 + 3) bludgeoning damage plus 18 (4d8) acid damage.

Life Leech. Using it’s attack action, the blood ooze can target one creature of Large size or smaller within 5 feet of it, and the targeted creature must then succeed on a DC 13 Dexterity saving throw or be (escape DC 13). Until this grapple ends, the target is and unable to breathe. In addition, the target takes 16 (3d10) necrotic damage at the start of each of its turns, and the blood ooze gains temporary hit points equal to half the damage dealt. The target also has its hit point maximum is reduced by an amount equal to the damage taken. This reduction lasts until the target finishes a long rest, and the target dies if its hit point maximum is reduced to 0. The blood ooze can grapple only one target at a time.

Body Thief. The blood ooze initiates an Intelligence contest with an humanoid within 5 feet of it that isn’t protected by . If it wins the contest, the blood ooze fuses the target's blood, seeping into their skull, and takes control of their body. While inside a creature, the blood ooze has total cover against attacks and other effects originating outside its host. The blood ooze retains its Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores, as well as its traits. It otherwise adopts the target’s statistics. It knows everything the creature knew, including spells and languages.

If the host body dies, the blood ooze must leave it. A spell cast on the body drives the blood ooze out. The blood ooze is also forced out if the target regains its body by means of a . By spending 5 feet of its movement, the blood ooze can voluntarily leave the body, seeping to the nearest unoccupied space within 5 feet of it. The creature is then killed, unless healed by magical means within 1 round of the blood ooze leaving it’s body.

Variant: Intelligent Blood Ooze

A blood ooze that lives a long time can evolve to become more intelligent and develop limited magical ability. Such occurrences are more common in blood oozes that live near magical creatures such as wandering wizards and hermits, suggesting that the ooze can sense and mimic magical abilities.

An intelligent blood ooze has an intelligence score of 16 (+3), as well as the following additional action.

Innate Spellcasting. The blood ooze's innate spellcasting ability is Intelligence (spell save DC 15). It can innately cast the following spells, requiring no components:

3/day each: charm person (as 5th-level spell), color spray, detect thoughts, hold person (as 3rd-level spell)

Description

Blood Ooze Origins. A disease inflicted by a contagion spell, otherwise known as Slimy Doom, typically causes a creature to bleed uncontrollably. It's blood slowly turning into gelatin until they can no longer function. However in rare cases, the weave gives birth to a blood ooze. These creatures are born within bodies and tend to go from host to host. As they go from body to body, the memories and knowledge they accumulate eventually grants the blood ooze sentience. This makes them especially hard to deal with when they can control the blood flow of their bodies, becoming resilient to most physical damage along with being able to cast any spells they might have in their arsenal.

Deadly Puppet Masters. A blood ooze consumes a creature’s body and memories, then turns the host body into a puppet under its control. A blood ooze typically uses its puppet host to survive and perform complicated actions a normal ooze wouldn't be able to; often going from host to host much like a hermit crab would.

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