Mamma Mia! Where's the @#$%! Green Slime?

[Scarab]

Yeah, and Ben Affleck was awesome in Phantoms!

Kneeel before Zod! Snoochie boochies!

 

[Kaptain_Kantrip]

*drip*

 

[Midnight Rider]

Green slime isn't smart enough to be a monster. It's a single-celled colonial organism, like algae

1) Fantasy Worlds usually have little to do with modern day biological sciences, so nobody would usually know that it wasn't a
multi-celled creature.

2) Over the centuries of human progress, we have taken pigs to court and fined them, and we have also claimed animals have no intelligence at all, and that when a rabid dog attacks, it must have been possessed by demons! So.... whether something is intelligent probably shouldn't accout for where it appears. I mean, look at all the unintelligent posters on ENWorld? We don't rule them out and put them in a different area where no one can find them, do we?

3) In some cultures on Earth, tribes have attributed intelligence to furniture, and what if a chair attacks you? Must it be classified as an animtate object? Oh, and why would that be in the Monster Manual? It sounds like a spell to me!

Quite obviously, the designers have no concept of what the heck they are doing when they flippantly classify things according to an artifice of logic which has nothing to do with pleasing gamers and DMs, and making it easier to find what you need to play.

Don't you imagine that people should play science fiction if they want to argue about one celled creatures? After all, Sci-fi is officially classified by the literary intelligentsia as being a sub-classification of the Fantasy Genre, so you wouldn't be straying too far.

 

[Droogie]

Very well. Lack of intelligence alone does not disqualify green slime as a monster, but the fact that it can't move (discernably) on its own tips the scale toward "not a monster".

 

[Corporate Dog]

Yeah, and Ben Affleck was awesome in Phantoms!

--Hummingbird

I HATE people who feel the need to correct movie quotes, BUT...

"Ben Affleck was the bomb in Phantoms, yo."

Regards,
Corporate Dog