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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 9097151" data-attributes="member: 42582">There's no trip ability as such in 4e that I recall. There are various powers that knock creatures prone, but at low levels I don't think it's common to be able to knock prone at will.I just had a look at some 5e statblocks: it seems that gelatinous cubes are immune to the prone condition, but snakes are not. I don't see that someone deciding that a 4e cube is immune to prone, should that be their preference, is going to break the game in a way that the 5e rule doesn't.The Deathlock Wight's Horrific Visage does untyped damage in the MM. This seems obviously an error - it should be Psychic damage, and that correction was made in a later Essentials-era update. I don't recall for sure, but I think I made this change myself when I first used a Deathlock Wight in an encounter (which was pre-Essentials).There is something slightly ironic about relying on the imprimatur of the rules to make house rulings to monster stat blocks!Leaving aside puzzles about what the logic is of real-world giant acidic cubes, it seems to me that a spatula can be used to knock over a cube: particularly as, presumably, its "body" engages in some sort of contraction or deformation as it moves.The only forced-movement effects used against gelatinous cubes that I recall in my 4e play were from a polearm-wielding fighter, so I didn't, and still don't, see any problem.</blockquote>