A Ooze's Split (Ex) [Archive] - Wizards Community

A Ooze's Split (Ex) [Archive] - Wizards Community

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heinrich
08-12-05, 03:52 AM From SRD:
Split (Ex): Slashing and piercing weapons deal no damage to a black pudding. Instead the creature splits into two identical puddings, each with half of the original’s current hit points (round down). A pudding with 10 hit points or less cannot be further split and dies if reduced to 0 hit points.

Question:
Shouldn' there be an information about mass reduction of the remaining ooze parts ?
I mean spliting a gargantuan black pudding thing in the middle should not result in two gargantual pudding, or should it ?`

Awaiting your answers.
Greetings,
Heinrich
Slagger the Chuul
08-12-05, 04:21 AM Question:
Shouldn' there be an information about mass reduction of the remaining ooze parts ?
I mean spliting a gargantuan black pudding thing in the middle should not result in two gargantual pudding, or should it ?

What there should be is a bunch of statistics for various sizes of ooze, like the way they've done elementals. That way, you could just have bigger oozes split into smaller ones, and you'd have more oozes to use in a variety of levels of encounter.

Unfortunately, there's none of this, and the only thing that makes the split pudding different is its lower hit points.
heinrich
08-12-05, 10:17 AM So you agree that it is not that such a logical system.

I also find it funny that you don't split the gargantuan pudding with a bludgoning weapon.

Think about an chocolate pudding. "Attacking it with a knive is a sure thing, it will Split. Hiting it with a spoon (not the way a spoon is intented do be used) the chocolate pudding will also split and will cause some splat damage to the carpet :D
Using a toothstick to divide the chocolate pudding on the other side is a very difficult task.

So if you transfer this information Split (Ex) would have to be rewritten:
Split (Ex): Slashing weapons deal no damage to a black pudding. Instead the creature splits into two identical puddings, each with half of the original’s current hit points (round down).
Slashing weapons deal no damage to a black pudding. They also cause the pudding to Split like Slashing Weapons do, but also cause to splash part of the puddings acid into every 5 ft. square on the side of the pudding that was hit, as long the 5ft. square is not more than 5ft. away for a medium pudding, 10 ft. for a large or huge pudding, 15 for gargantuan or colossal pudding. The acid causes 1 hp damage per size categorie over medium-size.
A pudding with 10 hit points or less cannot be further split and dies if reduced to 0 hit points. Every two splits the size of an pudding is reduced by one size category (reduce Str by 4, Attack by 3 and increase AC by 1).
Piercing weapons deal no damage at all.

Oh, wait a minute. If there is writen:
"A pudding with 10 hit points or less cannot be further split and dies if reduced to 0 hit points."
That mean he can't use the Split (Ex) at all including the weapon invulnerbility, right ? It's not still invulnerable to damage and now even unable to divide, is it ?

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
heinrich 08-12-05, 03:52 AM	From SRD: Split (Ex): Slashing and piercing weapons deal no damage to a black pudding. Instead the creature splits into two identical puddings, each with half of the original’s current hit points (round down). A pudding with 10 hit points or less cannot be further split and dies if reduced to 0 hit points. Question: Shouldn' there be an information about mass reduction of the remaining ooze parts ? I mean spliting a gargantuan black pudding thing in the middle should not result in two gargantual pudding, or should it ?` Awaiting your answers. Greetings, Heinrich
Slagger the Chuul 08-12-05, 04:21 AM	Question: Shouldn' there be an information about mass reduction of the remaining ooze parts ? I mean spliting a gargantuan black pudding thing in the middle should not result in two gargantual pudding, or should it ? What there should be is a bunch of statistics for various sizes of ooze, like the way they've done elementals. That way, you could just have bigger oozes split into smaller ones, and you'd have more oozes to use in a variety of levels of encounter. Unfortunately, there's none of this, and the only thing that makes the split pudding different is its lower hit points.
heinrich 08-12-05, 10:17 AM	So you agree that it is not that such a logical system. I also find it funny that you don't split the gargantuan pudding with a bludgoning weapon. Think about an chocolate pudding. "Attacking it with a knive is a sure thing, it will Split. Hiting it with a spoon (not the way a spoon is intented do be used) the chocolate pudding will also split and will cause some splat damage to the carpet :D Using a toothstick to divide the chocolate pudding on the other side is a very difficult task. So if you transfer this information Split (Ex) would have to be rewritten: Split (Ex): Slashing weapons deal no damage to a black pudding. Instead the creature splits into two identical puddings, each with half of the original’s current hit points (round down). Slashing weapons deal no damage to a black pudding. They also cause the pudding to Split like Slashing Weapons do, but also cause to splash part of the puddings acid into every 5 ft. square on the side of the pudding that was hit, as long the 5ft. square is not more than 5ft. away for a medium pudding, 10 ft. for a large or huge pudding, 15 for gargantuan or colossal pudding. The acid causes 1 hp damage per size categorie over medium-size. A pudding with 10 hit points or less cannot be further split and dies if reduced to 0 hit points. Every two splits the size of an pudding is reduced by one size category (reduce Str by 4, Attack by 3 and increase AC by 1). Piercing weapons deal no damage at all. Oh, wait a minute. If there is writen: "A pudding with 10 hit points or less cannot be further split and dies if reduced to 0 hit points." That mean he can't use the Split (Ex) at all including the weapon invulnerbility, right ? It's not still invulnerable to damage and now even unable to divide, is it ?