Eat knuckle, ooze!

[Sejs]

Or, another tweak to the ingestion ooze angle - after a certain point in the life cycle, the ooze animates the body, supplanting the muscle structure as it slowly feeds, and letting it amble about in search for more bodies to 'seed' into.


Jelly-filled ooze zombies of the arctic! Heck yes!

 

[RigaMortus2]

Or fake snow.

Well, there is always the Snowflake Ooze

 

[Wraith Form]

Funniest. Subject line. EVAR.

 

[Infiniti2000]

Or fake snow.

You know what they say, "Don't eat yellow frozen oozes."

 

[kigmatzomat]

Hmm, as for frozen oozes, that's an excellent idea! Several ideas occur, although I must admit to curiosity about the drink bit. I think you'd have to actually swallow the ooze to take damage, but most people I know would spit out a liquid that was burning their tongue that bad - especially if it was unexpected.

Put it in a bottle with a label of "potent alchoholic beverage. Very strong. Drink at own risk." Players will be compelled to try some of it.

 

[pawsplay]

I'm not so sure about that. Then again, I tend to view oozes as a vast collection of amoebas or other single cellular organisms.

Amoebae feel pain. And can be stunned or knocked out. If ever there was a case for oozes taking nonlethal, it's the amoeba.

 

[moritheil]

You are the DM, if something seems weird and counter intuitive then say "No".

Assuming, of course, that your world is one where everything makes sense. Not every DM makes that assumption.

 

[Umbran]

Amoebae feel pain. And can be stunned or knocked out. If ever there was a case for oozes taking nonlethal, it's the amoeba.

An amoeba is a single-celled organism. It has no nervous system. "Pain" as we understand it is a response of the nervous system to a stimulus.

While it may be stunned in that it may be incapable of motion for a time after a blow (how do you strike a single amoeba to test that?), I don't think the term "knocked out" can apply to a critter who does not have conscious and unconscious states.

 

[ValhallaGH]

Comparing an ooze to an amoebea is like comparing a green dragon to a komodo dragon. There may be some similarities but they aren't the same thing.

By the rules, Oozes can take non-lethal damage. If this is useful to your campaign (as the OP indicated) or you just like using the rules as they are written then go with it. If this really bothers you then change it. *shrug*

I have to admit, I also find frankthedm's suggestion most interesting.

 

[Sejs]

While it may be stunned in that it may be incapable of motion for a time after a blow (how do you strike a single amoeba to test that?)...

Make it hold reeeeeeal still, then punch it.

*nod*