Where's the Green Slime?

[Ahzad]

Where in the world is the Green Slime? Have I missed it or has it not been introduced into 4E yet?

This thing scared and frightened more of my players over the years than any other critter in the monster manuals, especially at the lower/middle levels. It was the cause of many players setting themselves on fire with torches or dropping a fireball at their feet in an attempt to burn it off them. I miss it and would like to inflict such horrors on a new generation of players.

 

[the Jester]

My guess- my hope- is that we'll see it in the DMG2 as a hazard.

 

[Dragonbait]

He's hanging out in the mount section now

 

[nightwyrm]

Have you tried looking at the traps and hazards section in the DMG? Slime is considered more of an environmental hazard rather than a monster so it isn't in the MM anymore.

 

[Nebulous]

Have you tried looking at the traps and hazards section in the DMG? Slime is considered more of an environmental hazard rather than a monster so it isn't in the MM anymore.

Yeah, i thought it was a hazard in the DMG? I could be wrong. That suits it better than a monster anyway, it's just a mindless amobea that dissolves you.

 

[Phaezen]

Yeah, i thought it was a hazard in the DMG? I could be wrong. That suits it better than a monster anyway, it's just a mindless amobea that dissolves you.

If I recall correctly, it has been a hazzard not a monster since 3.0

Phaezen

 

[mearls]

Green slime shows up in Return to the Moathouse, an RPGA adventure that I wrote for Origins '08. I think you can still download the adventure through the RPGA.

In the adventure, the slime is a combination trap/hazard. It makes an initial attack as it falls and does ongoing damage on a hit. When the PC saves, or if it misses, it moves to the nearest open square. Thereafter, it attacks the nearest creature until it lands on a new victim, and so forth until destroyed.

That might not serve as the canonical version, but it worked well enough when I ran the adventure.

 

[Mark]

That might not serve as the canonical version, but it worked well enough when I ran the adventure.

You stripped green slime down to just what it could do in a single combat. What more would be needed of it?

 

[Nebulous]

That might not serve as the canonical version, but it worked well enough when I ran the adventure.

That's one tenacious slime, Mike!

 

[Gentlegamer]