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### Ooze Ascendant
Your oozy magic heralds from an encounter with oozes. Prehaps you where trapped in a gelatenous cube as a child, and barely managed to escape. Or maybe you were blessed (or cursed) by the demon lord Juiblex, lord of oozes, or somehow came into contact with him, or one of his followers. No matter how you obtained your magic, you can use it to bolster your defences, and create weapons to fight with.

##### Ooze Origin Spells
| Sorcerer Level | Spell |
|:-:|:-|
| 1st | *grease* |
| 3rd | *Melf's acid arrow* |
| 5th | *slow*|
| 7th | *vitriolic sphere* |
| 9th |	*hold monster* |
| 11th | *eyebite* |

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> The Ooze Origin Spells are for use with u/SwordMeow's Tweaked Sorcerer, which is linked in the credit section. If you plan to play the PHB sorcerer, ignore the Ooze Origin Spells.

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#### Gooey Tendrils

Starting when you choose this origin at 1st level, you can use your magic to replace your arms with a pseudopod of acidic ooze.  As a bonus action on your turn, you can expend a spell slot and transform one of your arms into this pseudopod. While manifesting these pods, as an action, you can make a melee spell attack against a creature within 10 feet of you. You are proficient with it, and can add your Charisma modifier to its attack and damage rolls. On a hit, it deals 1d4 + 1d4 per level of the spell slot you expended acid damage.

Additionally, when you attempt to grapple a creature with you pseudopod, you make a Charisma (Athletics) check, rather than a Strength (Athletics) check, using the magic imbued within your pseudopod to hold the creature.

The pseudopod lasts for a minute, or until you dismiss in on your turn as a bonus action.

#### Acidic Anatomy

Also at 1st level, your form has begun to take on the aspects shown by oozes. You are resistant to acid damage, and at 1st level, your hit point maximum increases by 1 and increases by 1 again whenever you gain a level in this class.

#### Skin Deep

Starting at 6th level, a thick layer of ooze sits just below  your skin, granting you a climbing speed equal to your walking speed. In addition, when you are hit by a melee attack, you can use your reaction to spend 1 sorcery  point and deal 1d4 + half your sorcerer level acid damage to the attacker.

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#### Liquid Form

Starting at 14th level, you gain the ability to enter a liquid state while moving. You are resistant to the damage of opportunity attacks, and you can move through another creatures space, but cannot willingly end your turn there.

On your turn, you can move through any space that is at least 3 inches in diameter and do so without squeezing. When you stop moving, the regular squeezing rules apply if you're in a space one size smaller than you. You can't willingly stop in a space that is smaller than that, and if you're forced to do so, you immediately flow to the nearest space that can fit you, back along the path of your movement.

#### Oozy Duplicate

At 18th level, you can use your ooze magic to create a duplicate of yourself. As an action on your turn, you can spend 9 sorcery points to creature an oozy replica of yourself in an empty space within 5 feet of you. The duplicate is a creature, formed from dripping ooze, and it can take actions and otherwise be affected as a normal creature. It appears to be the same as the you, but has half your hit point maximum and is formed without any equipment. Otherwise, the duplicate uses all of your statistics, and has a tendril that deals 6d4 + its Charisma modifier on a hit. It cannot summon additional tendrils or create its own duplicate, but can use all of your other abilities as normal.

The duplicate is is friendly to you and creatures you designate. it obeys your spoken commands, moving and acting in accordance with your wishes and acting on its own turn in combat. The duplicate lacks the ability to learn or become more powerful, so it never increases its level or other abilities, nor can it regains spell slots.

The duplicate lasts for a minute or until it's destroyed, and it can't cast any spells. You can only have one duplicate at a time.

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> ##### Credits
> -  Base concept created by u/VampireBagel_, fleshed out and developed by u/Rain-Junkie. More of my work can be found [here](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B4DXaYGyECU5ODl6Y3R5STVjRGM?usp=sharing).
> - u/SwordMeow for his [Tweaked Sorcerer](https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B40nce9YZ1MbZlpqMVp5bVJmTlU/view).
> - Made using [GMBinder](https://www.gmbinder.com).
> - Special thank you to the [Discord of Many Things](https://discordapp.com/invite/0dPVgggGtnyRhIcB) for all their help!
> 
> This is part of the Buildbrew Up initiative, an attempt to prevent the constant flow of the same old homebrew by creating content that supports other homebrew content. Search "Buildbrew Up" on r/UnearthedArcana if you're interested, and feel free to join the movement.