Dead Gelatinous Cubes

[demiurge1138]

Yeah, I see it losing its structure, collapsing into an oozy mass. I hadn't thought about it with a "cottage cheese" consistency, but that sounds right.

Demiurge out.

 

[Quasqueton]

That would certainly make removing them from your way after you kill them a more tricky proposition that with most monsters.

This was what I was wondering about. Kill a GC in a 10' wide corridor, and well, how to get past it?

I was in a game one time where a cube "divided" the party on either side of itself. We ended up using torches to burn it up so we could get back together.

Quasqueton

 

[the Jester]

In that case, is their poison/acid still effective? That would certainly make removing them from your way after you kill them a more tricky proposition that with most monsters.

No, but it is a big lump in the way.

 

[Tuzenbach]

In that case, is their poison/acid still effective? That would certainly make removing them from your way after you kill them a more tricky proposition that with most monsters.

Hmmmm. I wonder if one can bottle-up the goo and store it for later use. Free poisonous-acid, anyone? It'd be a better treasure gleaned from the thing than any random thingy stuck within it, methinks.

 

[Wild Gazebo]

Mine turn into pyamids.

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

"...aren't much fun".

 

[Sejs]

Mine turn into pyamids.

Then if you kill 'em again they turn back into a cube, but now they're only half as effective.

 

[darkelfo]

It gives a 10 minute dying speech, thanks its mum and dad for everything, does the Cha Cha, the Macarena and finally gasps "GOOD BYE CRUEL WORLD!" before exploding and spashing the PCs with green slime ala nicelodeon.

 

[Wild Gazebo]

Yeah, a GC with a magic mouth! That would be fun...oooooh, or a GC with a ghost template. Scary.

 

[Gez]

Dead gelatinous cubes become Sejs' avatar.


More seriously, I have them "melting", and becoming a large puddle of thick, sticky gelatine. It eventually dries up, and looks like clear spackle under that form. The acidic properties are lost pretty quickly from oxydation once exposed to air.

And I do picture them as having a thick membrane, that shields the fluider inside from oxydation. Slashing and piercing damage lets that inside leaks, and when enough has been lost, the outer membrane collapses, releasing the rest of the fluid.

I also like death throes for some sort of jellies... Conflagration ooze (MM3), for example, would always be of the death throes variety with me.