They’re slower than your average PC, so many will just give them a wide berth and move on.īut according to the Monster Manual, black puddings, gray oozes, and ochre jellies can all move through spaces as narrow as 1 inch wide without squeezing–so it could conceivably fit into spaces even tighter than that! No one is going to pay much attention to the natural cracks in the cave walls, which can give you all the opening you need to put an ooze in hot pursuit of an unsuspecting party. Oozes are fairly well-known entities in Dungeons and Dragons, so luring folks into an encounter with an exposed ooze can be tricky.

It’s no coincidence then that the 1974 release of Dungeons and Dragons made great use of malicious slimes and oozes. Eight years later, The Blob would slide its way onto the silver screen a movie about a purplish gelatinous mass that dissolved others instead of evaporating itself!