Homebrew Sentient Slime Species Details

Unwilling Symbiosis:

Under exceptional circumstances, when a pudding. jelly or ooze completely consumes a sapient humanoid, something unprecedented happens in the digestion process. Though the victim is killed and their body consumed, their fleshless skull (and something spiritual) remains intact inside the ooze and transforms the mindless creature into something more.

Over the course of the next few years, the ooze gradually undergoes something of a gestation period which whatever consciousness or sapience that remains inside the skull permeates into the ooze and cause it to evolve.

Physically at firsts, the ooze coagulating and solidifying and becoming more dense as it lift the skull onto something resembling a neck, grows two arms and eight fingers and 2 thumbs and finally stacks itself onto a long stalk of slime that supports its form. The slime body almost always matches its skull and resembles the proportions of the humanoid it absorbed. Almost nothing phycological remains from the victim of this amalgamation except a sense of self-awareness, a yearning for learning, and a very human urge to preserve itself.  

Sentient Slime Traits

It’s hard to make generalizations about Slimes, but your slime character has these traits.

Blindsight

You have no eyes inside the sockets of your skull, but your gelatinous body can sense vibrations. you can see in darkness within 60 ft. of you as though it were bright light. and you are immune to blinding.

Inherited Skills

Retaining some of the memories of the creature you absorbed, you remember some of their skills. you gain proficiency in one skill of your choice. 

Amorphous

You can fit through spaces as small as the size of your skull without squeezing, and you're resistant to slashing damage and acid.

Languages

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

Ability Score Increase

 Your ability constitution increase by 2 and your dexterity increases by 1.

Age

Intelligent Ooze and slimes live up to about 30 years or until the skull in their body dissolves.

Alignment

Slimes are born neutral, but can become jaded from the animosity other races show them,. Alternatively, this prejudice can motivate them to protect others.

Size

Sentient slimes and ooze vary widely in height and build, from barely 5 feet to well over 6 feet tall. Regardless of your position in that range, your size is Medium.

Speed

Your base walking speed is 25 feet.