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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 4508687" data-attributes="member: 57383">Interesting beastie, I'm sure I've seen the concept of a man-eating slime that masquerades as a pool somewhere else. I like these kinds of monster, it's just credible enough you could imagine such an animal really existing on an alien world somewhere.Couldn't we just modify the drowning bit of the Carnivorous Wall's Engulf attack we wrote a few conversions back?As far as the stat-block goes, I'm thinking it would be easier modifying the Gelatinous Cube. (Take the <a href="http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/ooze.htm#gelatinousCube" target="_blank">SRD Cube</a>, up the HD to 13 (equal to a Size Huge Gelatinous Cube?), reduce its move and drop its paralysis - that's most of the way there). That comes out as something like the following, I've italicized a few additional suggestions:   Living Pool  Huge Ooze  Hit Dice:13d10+130 (202 hp)  Initiative: –5  Speed: 10 ft. (2 squares)  Armor Class: 3 (–2 size, –5 Dex), touch 3, flat-footed 3  Base Attack/Grapple: +8/+20  Attack: Slam +10 melee (3d4+4 plus 1d8 acid)  Space/Reach: 15 ft./10 ft.  Special Attacks: Acid, engulf, improved grab  Special Qualities: Blindsight 60 ft., ooze traits, transparent  Saves: Fort +14, Ref –1, Will –1  Abilities: Str 18, Dex 1, Con 30, Int—, Wis 1, Cha 1  Skills: (max ranks in Disguise with a racial bonus?)  Feats: —  Environment: Any non-arctic land or underground  Organization: Solitary  Challenge Rating: 7 (About as nasty as a black pudding?)  Treasure: 1/10th coins, 50% goods (no nonmetal or nonstone), 50% items (no nonmetal or nonstone)  Alignment: Always neutral evil (seems a bit of an odd alignment for an Ooze)  Advancement: 14-26 HD (Huge); 27–52 HD (Gargantuan)  Level Adjustment: —  A typical living pool is about ten feet thick and twenty feet in diameter, weighing some 50,000 pounds.  </blockquote>

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