Quick Gelatinous Cube question

[wedgeski]

For a change of pace, instead of it being "invisible," you can describe a gelatinous cube as a levitating skeleton slowly drifting toward the PCs (somewhat like Moxcamel mentioned above). The party fighter moves in to engage the undead fiend, and... gloop.

Yup, executed this exact schtick successfully on my group last year. Fun times!

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

Gelatinous cubes in maze with invisible walls. Generations of players have stumbled around in there, worked in 1e, 2e, 4e, and by gosh it better work in 8e too or I ain't playin' it!

 

[eriktheguy]

Pit between PCs and treasure
Gelatinous cube suspended over pit on special hook
when player jumps and gets caught, extra weight causes cube to slip off hook into pit

 

[Katana_Geldar]

I've only used a gelatinous cube once so far, in a trap-filled corridoor with kobolds in the middle. A player threw a javelin to trigger the trap, missed and hit a gelatinous cube instead!

"The javelin hands in mid-air..."

 

[Horatio]

I scared the hell out of my players with a gelatinous cube ghost. Completly harmless (they didn't know of course), and unlike live gelationous cube - visible, colored like a ghost of course. It tried to engulf them, without any effect, because it didn't have a body any more. It than followed them, still trying to act as if it still were alive. It eventually followed them out of dungeon and to the nearby village.

Villagers were not happy. It scared the farm animals, annoyed people...

Finally, they got an exorcist to make it go away. Funny times.

 

[Dungeoneer]

Gelatinous cubes in maze with invisible walls. Generations of players have stumbled around in there, worked in 1e, 2e, 4e, and by gosh it better work in 8e too or I ain't playin' it!

8e will feature Gelatinous Cubes as a playable race.

 

[moxcamel]

8e will feature Gelatinous Cubes as a playable race.

Heh, you think it's gonna be that long huh?

 

[Ryujin]

8e will feature Gelatinous Cubes as a playable race.

Dralasites by 6e.

 

[AbdulAlhazred]

Dralasites by 6e.

Yeah, but 7e will be better. You'll be able to play Carrion Crawler and Otyugh! Oh, and half-otyugh/half-carrioncrawler (for those who want a tougher controller, you know...).

 

[moxcamel]

No no no...Otyugh will be a class.