#Ooze dungeons and dragons manual#

Green slimes are mindless and cannot speak. Green slime is vulnerable to light, heat, frost, and cure disease spells. Living creatures touched by a green slime eventually turn into green slime themselves. If it grows on a ceiling, however, it can sense if someone passes below, and drops onto them.

For the most part, it is forced to feed off of vegetable, organic or metallic substances in an underground wall.

Being a growth, it is fixed to one place and cannot move or attack. The green slime is notably different from other oozes. Green slime appeared in the fifth edition Dungeon Master's Guide as a dungeon hazard. The green slime appeared in the third edition Dungeon Master's Guide (2000) as a dungeon hazard, and again in the 3.5 revised Dungeon Master's Guide (2003).

#Ooze dungeons and dragons manual#

The green slime appeared in second edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in Monstrous Compendium Volume One (1989), reprinted in the Monstrous Manual (1993) under the 'ooze' entry. The green slime appeared in first edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons in the original Monster Manual (1977). The green slime appeared in the D&D Basic Set (1977, 1981, 1983) and Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia (1991). The green slime first appeared in the original Dungeons & Dragons set (1974). The conception of green slime as an invasive life form that overgrows its victims, as depicted in Dungeons & Dragons, also has roots in science fiction, such as the 1968 film The Green Slime, and horror such as William Hope Hodgson's short story 'The Voice In The Night'. Some of these might have been inspired by cavers' contacts with peculiar lifeforms in caves with a high hydrogen sulfide and sulfuric acid content which are even more corrosive than the environments they inhabit, such as the 'snottites', 'red goo', and 'green slime' encountered in the real-world Cueva de Villa Luz.

The description of various 'genera' and 'species' of corrosive mineral oozes encountered by unwary miners underground, that can eat unnoticed through skin and flesh to the bone, date back at least to the works of Georg Agricola.