Homebrew Aberrant Ooze Species Details

The birth of an Aberrant Ooze is an uncommon and often inauspicious event. They begin their lives as a simple nodule of collected cells, typically forming in oozes who have managed to survive for several centuries. As this nodule grows and forms a core it begins developing a consciousness of its own, separate from that of its ooze host body. It is at this point that ooze host will recognize this core as a foreign body and discard it. Depending on their environment many of these cores will not survive this separation, those that do however will use what little ooze they were able to retain from their host to begin feeding. It will retain this small amount of ooze throughout its life cycle to be used for feeding, however all new ooze generated by the core will have lost this acidic property instead taking on a more elastic and easily shaped form. As the Aberrant Ooze feeds and gains more mass it sees a similar increase in its intelligence. When the ooze has taken on enough mass it begins manifesting a more humanoid shape, forming limbs and extremities, in order to become more similar in appearance to other sentient beings that it has observed. It is at this point that the Aberrant Ooze will typically cease its growth as all further nutrients go towards the taxing process of retaining its form.

Aberrant Ooze Traits

Your Ooze heritage manifests in a variety of traits you share with other Oozes.

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increases by 2 and your Strength score increases by 1.

Age

Aberrant Oozes mature quickly. They spend the first few years of their lives in an amorphous state feeding on whatever is nearby. Depending on the availability of food the Aberrant Ooze will reach full adult size within 5-10 years. It is unclear just how long the lifespans of oozes are, but the oldest known specimens are several centuries old.

Alignment

Aberrant Oozes tend toward no particular alignment.

Size

Aberrant Oozes vary widely in height and build, but tend to average between 5 and 7 feet tall. Your size is Medium

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30ft.

Darkvision

You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.

Acid Resistance

You have resistance to acid damage. 

Amorphous

You have advantage on all checks made to initiate, maintain, or escape a grapple and are immune to all forms of non-magical restraint.

Corrosive Touch

Your unarmed strikes deal acid damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. 

Liquid Movement

You can don or doff armor as an action. Additionally, while unarmored, you can move through spaces as small as 1-inch wide without squeezing at half of your movement speed. Any items that cannot fit through a space you pass through are left behind.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and one extra language of your choice.

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