Corpse-snatcher Ooze

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Corpse-snatcher Ooze

Oozes are amorphous beings with no typical shape. They consume food by osmosis, the way an amoeba does, and excrete waste through tiny pores, and they breathe by absorbing oxygen through another set of pores. Oozes don’t have internal organs of the usual sort. Their bodies are composed of cells, fibers, plasma-like ooze, and clusters of nerves called ganglia. These nerves enable an ooze to detect light, heat, texture, sound, pain, and vibrations.

Corpse-snatcher oozes are able to consume corpses to resemble other creatures, using their bones to give themselves structure. These oozes can only take on a humanoid shape and gain the ability to speak by replicating the functions of the corpses they consume. In their natural form most of these oozes are translucent gray, though they can alter their color and translucence when they consume a corpse.

Corpse-snatcher Ooze Traits

This race uses the "Creating Your Character" general rules as presented in Monsters of the Multiverse. In addition, as a corpse-snatcher ooze, you have the following racial traits.

Creature Type

You are an Ooze.

Size

You are Medium or Small. You choose the size when you select this race.

Speed

Your walking speed is 15 feet.

True Form

Your true form is that of a translucent amorphous ooze. While in your true form, you have the following traits:

  • You are unable to wear armor, and you can’t wield weapons, magic items, or other specialized equipment.
  • You are immune to the prone condition.
  • You can squeeze through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide.
  • You also have advantage on ability checks you make to initiate or escape a grapple.

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 discern colors in that darkness only as shades of gray.

Hold Breath

You can hold your breath for up to 1 hour at a time.

Natural Resilience

You have resistance and poison damage, and you have advantage on saving throws against being poisoned.

Consume Corpse

You can spend 1 hour consuming the corpse on a Small or Medium creature that has died within the last 10 days that you can touch. You form yourself around the skeleton of the creature and then look identical to the dead creature, but healthy and alive. You become the size of the corpse you consumed and you gain any walking, climbing, swimming, or flying speed the creature had, but otherwise your statistics remain the same. You can’t use a flying speed you gain through this trait if you’re wearing medium or heavy armor. You gain no special knowledge of the memories or behaviors of the creature you consume. When you revert to your true form, you expel the skeleton (weighing 20 lbs.) into an empty space within 5 feet of you. You can treat any skeleton you expel as a fresh corpse, no matter how much time has passed.

While you are in the form of a creature, you can use an action to change your appearance in a limited fashion. You can change your voice and the shape and pigmentation of your flesh, but are unable to change your bones, hair, nails, or other such hard tissues. Your form must always conform to the skeleton you are using. You can only duplicate the appearance of the creature whose corpse you last consumed.

You stay in the new form until you consume another corpse, you spend 1 minute to revert to your true form, or until you die.

  • Art: MeLaan True Body by Madison Coyne