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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Patryn of Elvenshae" data-source="post: 2055614" data-attributes="member: 23094">Glad to help!  D&D's roots as a sword and sorcery game is readily apparent whenever you start dealing with unarmed combat.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />C is correct.  Oozes are pretty heinous, if you let them touch you.Once a creature is grappling, it is subject to all the rules of grappling.  Specifically, it does unarmed strike damage, is denied its Dex bonus to AC against all creatures it is not grappling, makes grapple checks based on BAB, and threatens no squares.A creature with Constrict, like our ooze, has the ability to do more than its unarmed strike damage.A creature with Improved Grab has the ability to take a -20 penalty on its grapple checks in order to coniser itself not grappled.So the ooze could only attack another creature with its slam attack if it takes that -20 penalty.  That penalty would then apply until the creature's next turn, making it much easier for the grappled creature to escape (or, ironically, pin the ooze! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ).Yep.Nope.</blockquote>

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