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<blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 6098234" data-attributes="member: 82106"><p>I don't know about that. I have no understanding of how an ooze actually works. Maybe they are quite easy to disadvantage. After all they lack a skeleton to support them or give them leverage. Can I just hit it with my weapon and cause it to spatter and have to draw together again? Does cutting it cause a loss of hydrostatic pressure it uses to move? Does it have organs that are vulnerable and not well protected by its weak oozy form? I can think of a million ways that ooze could be pretty easy to fight. Obviously different types of ooze might have different weaknesses or strengths too. </p><p></p><p>Again the problem with the whole "story, not rules" is the players never have any idea what is what. Can they use oil flasks to burn up monsters by throwing them? Who knows, it is entirely up to the whim of today's DM. What happens when you hit an ooze with a cold spell? Does it freeze up? Does that hurt an ooze more, less, or the same as anyone else? This leads IME to players either gaming the DM, or always playing it safe, etc. There are some reasons for nailing things down. IMHO it is superior to just give blanket answers that work and then find the exceptions. The main obvious ones will be in the rules, like "ooze can't fall prone, instead it gets disadvantage" or they are so weird they come up in play and then at least the DM is only ruling on one very niche thing now and then, not half of everything the PCs can try to do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AbdulAlhazred, post: 6098234, member: 82106"] I don't know about that. I have no understanding of how an ooze actually works. Maybe they are quite easy to disadvantage. After all they lack a skeleton to support them or give them leverage. Can I just hit it with my weapon and cause it to spatter and have to draw together again? Does cutting it cause a loss of hydrostatic pressure it uses to move? Does it have organs that are vulnerable and not well protected by its weak oozy form? I can think of a million ways that ooze could be pretty easy to fight. Obviously different types of ooze might have different weaknesses or strengths too. Again the problem with the whole "story, not rules" is the players never have any idea what is what. Can they use oil flasks to burn up monsters by throwing them? Who knows, it is entirely up to the whim of today's DM. What happens when you hit an ooze with a cold spell? Does it freeze up? Does that hurt an ooze more, less, or the same as anyone else? This leads IME to players either gaming the DM, or always playing it safe, etc. There are some reasons for nailing things down. IMHO it is superior to just give blanket answers that work and then find the exceptions. The main obvious ones will be in the rules, like "ooze can't fall prone, instead it gets disadvantage" or they are so weird they come up in play and then at least the DM is only ruling on one very niche thing now and then, not half of everything the PCs can try to do. [/QUOTE]
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