There are also various oozes that are intelligent by default, mostly in Monster Manual II and III. They did similar things with other oozes in another “Elite Opponents” article. It gets around the gelatinous cube’s lack of Intelligence by using the fiendish creature template. Wizards used those same ideas in its own “Elite Opponents” article that includes a gelatinous cube monk, but it’s not playable either-monsters could take class levels in this edition. Ultimately, however, none of these rules officially make the cube playable.

There are other templates that are not specific to oozes, but still legally applied to one, that provide more Intelligence. 304), or the sentry ooze template ( Dungeonscape), though the latter only provides “animal-like” Int 2. Most oozes-including the gelatinous cube-are mindless, but D&D 3.5e does provide ways around that.įor example, there’s the awaken ooze spell ( Dragon vol. One of the hard, practical stops on playing any monster is Intelligence-even if you ignore the rules saying you’re not allowed to play one, you can’t really turn a mindless creature into a player character. 3 Intelligent oozes, including gelatinous cubes-not officially playable Anyway, it is officially, technically, playable, though again I suspect most would find the experience frustrating. That form is pretty much solely for infiltration, though, since the slyth isn’t really allowed to do much while using it except move around (including through incredibly tight spaces). The slyth are regular humanoids, but they do have the ability to turn into an ooze-like “amorphous form” for up to 10 × level minutes per day, broken up as the slyth sees fit. 1 However, they were not technically oozes-their originally incarnation in Monsters of Faerûn had them as “shapechangers” which isn’t a thing that can stand on its own in 3e (it’s a “subtype”), and the errata to Player’s Guide to Faerûn (which officially was the last word on updating a lot of things to the revised edition) states they are aberrations (the same type used by illithids, beholders, and the like).Īlso in Faerûn, we have the Underdark book 2 and its slyth race. The ghaunadan are a race of evil ooze-like shapechangers devoted to Ghaunadaur, and in 3.5e they were technically playable, though in practice I don’t think it would have been plausible. D&D “v.3.5 revised edition” is by-far the edition I know best, so here’s what can be found in that edition.

Bugbear 5e playable race