You invoke all things that seep and ooze, your body dissolving into a thick slurry and then reconstituting itself into a Medium ooze battle form. When you first cast this spell, choose black pudding, gelatinous cube, gray ooze, or ochre jelly. While in this form, you gain the ooze trait. You can Dismiss the spell. You gain the following statistics and abilities regardless of which battle form you choose:
- •AC = 7 + your level. Ignore your armor's check penalty and Speed reduction.
- •20 temporary Hit Points.
- •You are immune to critical hits, precision damage, and visual effects.
- •Resistance 5 to acid, piercing, and slashing damage.
- •No vision and motion sense 30 feet. You can sense nearby motion through vibration and air movement as a precise sense.
- •One or more unarmed melee attacks specific to the battle form you choose, which are the only attacks you can Strike with. You're trained with them. Your attack modifier is +14, and you use the listed damage. These attacks are Strength based (for the purpose of the enfeebled condition, for example). If your unarmed attack modifier is higher, you can use it instead.
- •Athletics modifier of +14, unless your own is higher. You also gain specific abilities based on the ooze:
- •Black Pudding Speed 15 feet, climb 15 feet;
- •Melee 1 pseudopod, Damage 2d6+5 bludgeoning and 1d8 acid.
- •Gelatinous Cube Speed 15 feet;
- •Melee 1 cube face, Damage 1d6+5 acid;
- •a creature hit by your cube face Strike must succeed at a Fortitude save against your spell DC or be Stunned 1 (or Paralyzed for 1 round on a critical failure); this save has the incapacitation trait.
- •Gray Ooze Speed 15 feet, climb 15 feet, swim 15 feet
- •Melee 1 pseudopod, Damage 1d6+5 bludgeoning and 1d6 acid, and you can spend an action after a hit to Grab the target.
- •Ochre Jelly Speed 15 feet, climb 10 feet; resistance 5 to electricity;
- •Melee 1 pseudopod, Damage 1d8+5 bludgeoning and 1d8 acid, and you can spend an action after a hit to Grab the target. Spell Effect: Ooze Form
Heightened (4th) Your battle form is Large, and your attacks have 10-foot reach. You must have enough space to expand into or the spell is lost. You instead gain 30 temporary HP; resistance 7 to acid, piercing, and slashing; attack modifier +16; damage bonus +9; and Athletics +16. Your motion sense has a range of 40 feet.
Heightened (5th) Your battle form is Huge, and your attacks have 15-foot reach. You must have enough space to expand into or the spell is lost. You instead gain 40 temporary HP; resistance 10 to acid, piercing, and slashing; attack modifier +18; damage bonus +6 and double damage dice; and Athletics +20. Your motion sense has a range of 60 feet.
Heightened (8th) Your battle form is Gargantuan (20-foot- by-20-foot space), and your attacks have 20-foot reach. You must have enough space to expand into or the spell is lost. You instead gain 60 temporary HP; resistance 12 to acid, piercing, and slashing; attack modifier +28; damage bonus +13 and double damage dice; and Athletics +29. Your motion sense has a range of 60 feet.
Traits
An action with this trait requires a degree of mental concentration and discipline.
You must physically manipulate an item or make gestures to use an action with this trait. Creatures without a suitable appendage can't perform actions with this trait. Manipulate actions often trigger reactions.
These effects completely transform the target into a new form. A target can't be under the effect of more than one polymorph at a time. If it comes under the effect of another, the second effect attempts to counteract the first. If it succeeds, it takes effect, and if it fails, the spell has no effect on that target. Any Strikes granted by a polymorph effect are magical. Unless otherwise stated, polymorph spells don't allow the target to take on the appearance of a specific individual creature. If you take on a battle form with a polymorph spell, the special statistics can be adjusted only by circumstance bonuses, status bonuses, and penalties. Unless otherwise noted, the battle form prevents you from casting spells, speaking, and using most manipulate actions that require hands. (If there's doubt about whether you can use an action, the GM decides.) Your gear is absorbed into you; the constant abilities of your gear still function, but you can't activate any items. You lose your Speeds and gain those of the battle form. If a polymorph effect causes you to increase in size, you must have space to expand into or the effect is disrupted.