Gelatinous Cube (5e Race)
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Gelatinous Cube.[edit]
Physical Description[edit]
Gelatinous Cubes are a benign seeming gelatin who in fact are made of vitriolic acid whose touch only the hardest of materials can survive (e.g. metal, rock, gems). Most at home in the dungeon corridor, the adventuring ooze is seeking something more than its passive cousins. Some take the form of plain transparent cubes but others appear more humanoid with arms and legs that can change color and shape at will.
History[edit]
You were made by a wizard who wanted the dungeon clean. Unfortunately these cube cleaners cleared away ALL the organic material, including scrolls and tomes! Bemoaning the stupidity of the creation, the wizard cast awaken on the cubes. The cubes became smarter and tried their best to follow the wizard's instructions but the wizard still disapproved of the results. Taking some cubes aside the wizard experimented with enlarge/reduce and alter self spells to make the cubes more humanoid. They were taught reading and writing, given gems to play with, however, even after all that, the wizard still thought that the cubes were not performing well enough and whacked them incessantly. After 30 days of this treatment the oozes rebelled, engulfed and killed the wizard.
Attitudes and Beliefs[edit]
With a world that for the most part dissolves at the touch, gelatinous cubes long to get to the heart of the matter. They are sympathetic to other wizard creations but would distinguish themselves from the likes of mimics or cloakers by ascribing to a higher set of ideals. They are not there to eat everything that comes by nor to simply trick others. Instead they strive to make things clean, to bring clarity, to foster transparency. Gelatinous Cubes are suspicious of magic but covet it as dearly as the jewels and coins they arrange decoratively inside their gelatin.
Gelatinous Cube Names[edit]
Male: Bill, Will, Phill
Female: Jill, Milly
Gelatinous Cube Traits[edit]
Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 2 and your Strength score increases by 1.
Age. Gelatinous Cube mature at the age of 8 and will live up to well over a thousand.
Alignment. Generally they will go towards neutral good or neutral.
Size. Your sub-race determines your size.
Speed. Your base walking speed is 20 feet. You can walk on any surface regardless of its orientation to gravity. Thus, you also have a climbing speed of 20 feet.
Ooze Nature. Your creature type is ooze. You can move through size small spaces as if they were difficult terrain.
Engulf. When you are grappling a creature you can engulf them as well if they are your size or smaller, imposing disadvantage on any ability check or attack roll that the grappled creature makes, Any damage you take is halved and the engulfed creature takes the other half and vice versa. As long as you maintain a grapple, the creature you are grappling takes 1d10 + your Constitution modifier acid damage at the end of its turn. This damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10), You can use your Engulf a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus + your Constitution modifier, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.
Ooze Cube. Your type is ooze.
Transparent. If you haven't moved on your turn when you attempt to hide, your colouration dissolves and you become transparent until you move, make an attack, fall prone, or cast a spell with a somatic component, either voluntarily or because of some external effect. While transparent, you can attempt to hide even when only lightly obscured or even in plain sight. While lightly or heavily obscured, Wisdom (Perception) checks made to see you have disadvantage.
Silent. You gain proficiency in Stealth.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.
True Cube[edit]
Size. "True Cubes do not vary. You are 10 feet tall and 10 feet wide and 10 feet deep. Your size is large."
True cube.. you have Immunity to acid damage.
Cube body. As a cube you do not have hands so you can not hold any weapons or item that need hands and you cant where any armor your ac= 10 + your con modifier.
Engulfer. You can engulf as many times as you want. You take up the entire space. Other creatures can enter the space, but a creature that does so is subjected to your Engulf and has disadvantage on the grapple. You can engulf up to four Medium creatures at a time or one large creature.
True Ooze[edit]
Size. "True oozes vary in size from 5 feet to 6 feet tall. Your size is Medium."
Gelatinous body. You can change you body at will as if you cast Alter Self.
ooze. You have Resistance to acid damage.
Random Height and Weight[edit]
| Base Height |
Height Modifier* |
Base Weight |
Weight Modifier** |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5ft′ 60'' | +{{{heightmod}}} | 15,000 lb. | × (1d100) lb. |
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*Height = base height + height modifier | |||
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