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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CruelSummerLord" data-source="post: 3259373" data-attributes="member: 48692">Well, how about using them in booby traps?  Open the door without setting the trap, you get gray ooze dumped on you.  The DM could be highly justified in saying that the unlucky PCs are automatically surprised and hit, and their armor and flesh are disintegrated by the ooze's toxic touch.  Imagine the havoc that could result from the fact that most spells do not affect it, and most weapons will be destroyed if it hits them.  Talk about a great trap for a villain to set on his escape route!  If they have green silme dumped on them, it's even worse!  How about using crystal ooze around a treasure kept on an island in the middle of a pond or pool?  The only safe way to get in is by flying...which could prove problematic if you're a lich who has cast an anti-magic field in the area.  What better place to hide something a villain does not want found, like his phylactery?  Even high-level heroes have to hesitate about wading or swimming through a pool infested with ooze that could paralyze you to be drowned or digested, and is almost invulnerable to anything you might throw at it except electricity, and how could that work if you're in an anti-magic field?  How about olive slime creatures?  Humans walking through knee- or waist-deep water are obviously going to be at a disadvantage, most notably penalties to attacks and AC, perhaps not getting a dexterity bonus?  Now imagine what happens when those humans are walking through a swamp or marsh, and they're ambushed by olive slime creatures.  If the creatures grapple the fighters-who are, again, at a disadvantage because of the water-and wrestle them beneath the surface of the water, how much of a chance do they have if they're wearing metal armor?  Some spells affect them, but weapons are useless unless they're enchanted with fire or ice.  If you're a fighter and you don't have those...</blockquote>

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