Delicious. If a creature kills a candy jelly with a melee attack, it must succeed on a DC 11 Wisdom saving throw or spend its next turn eating the ooze. While eating, the creature can't move or take actions, bonus actions, or reactions.
Psuedopod. Melee weapon attack. +2 to hit, reach 5 ft, one target. Hit 1 bludgeoning damage and 1 acid damage.
Description
The origin of the candy jelly is as mysterious as the owl bear. Some say that it is a bi-product of the lost wizard school of culinary delights, some say slimes arrived in a candy shop and just ate enough of the merchandise to change their entire chemical make up. Others say that they used to have a symbiotic relationship with predators in Drooam. Either way, candy jellies are usually found in confection shops and ice cream parlors across Khorvaire.
The candy jellies are used for three purposes. Adorable decoration, candy creation and pest control. The creatures are harmless unless attacked. They jiggle around, allow people to pet them and seem really friendly if they feel safe.
The jellies secrete a slime that can be used to make flavored treats. Their colors designate their flavor:
Red - Strawberry
Green - Sour Apple
Blue - Blue Raspberry
Black - Licorice
Brown - Chocolate
White - Vanilla
And so on.
Lastly, humanoids use them for pest control. They tend to hunt whatever insects, mice and rats that appear in the shop, absorbing them into their body and slowly digesting them. Jellies that catch prey this way are kept in the back, because nothing ruins an appetite like hearing a dissolving cockroach scream.
Wild candy jellies are found in locations like Drooam and the Demon Wastes, where their adorableness is tolerated by predators. Some predators will even purposely collect and keep them in hopes they can lure prey to their dens for an easy meal.
Candy jellies primary defense is to collect themselves in a group and release a scent that makes them completely irresistible to eat. Eating one is enough to fill your stomach but most creatures derive no nutrients or calories from them, so creatures who begin to rely on them feast themselves into starvation. One of the few predators that can survive on them are faerie dragons, their natural predator. Faerie dragons do prefer the candies and treats made from the slimes
Lair and Lair Actions
Sweet Scent. Any creature that attempts a Wisdom (Perception) check using their sense of smell while within 10 feet of the candy jelly automatically detects its presence, but the DC to detect anything else is increased by 5. Add 5 extra feet for every five jellies in the area
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