5e24:Black Pudding
See Black Pudding (disambiguation)

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| Black Pudding [1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Large Ooze, Unaligned | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| AC: 7Initiative: -3 (7) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| HP: 68 (8d10+24) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Speed: 20 ft., Climb 20 ft. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Immunities: Acid, Cold, Lightning, Slashing; Charmed, Deafened, Exhaustion, Frightened, Grappled, Prone, Restrained | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senses: Blindsight 60 ft., Passive Perception 8 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Languages: — | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| CR: 4 (XP 1,100; PB +2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
TraitsAmorphous. [3] The pudding can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without expending extra movement to do so. In 1 minute, the pudding can eat through 2 feet of nonmagical wood or metal. ActionsDissolving Pseudopod. Melee Attack Roll: +5, reach 10 ft. Hit: 17 (4d6+3) Acid damage. Nonmagical armor worn by the target takes a −1 penalty to the AC it offers. The armor is destroyed if the penalty reduces its AC to 10. The penalty can be removed by casting the Mending spell on the armor. ReactionsSplit. Trigger: While the pudding is Large or Medium and has 10+ Hit Points, it becomes Bloodied or is subjected to Lightning or Slashing damage. Response: The pudding splits into two new Black Puddings. Each new pudding is one size smaller than the original pudding and acts on its Initiative. The original pudding’s Hit Points are divided evenly between the new puddings (round down). | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Unofficial Description: Black corrosive ooze.
Found in Adventures
- Against the Giants
- Broken Mirrors
- Curse of Strahd
- Dead in Thay
- Journeys through the Radiant Citadel
- Out of the Abyss
- Pharaoh
- Princes of the Apocalypse
- Quests from the Infinite Staircase
- The Lost City
- The Will of Orcus
- What Wakes Below
- White Plume Mountain
Sources and Notes
- Wizards RPG Team. SRD 5.2 (5e 2024) (2025-04-22). Wizards of the Coast. p. 262. Licensed: CC-BY. ↑
- Wizards RPG Team. Monster Manual (5e24) (5e 2024) (2025-02-18). Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 9780786969548. p. 42. ↑
- Trait matches the trait of the same name in the 5th ed. SRD. - Wizards RPG Team. SRD-OGL v5.1 (5e 2014) (2015.05.06). Wizards of the Coast. Licensed: OGL. ↑ 3.0 3.1
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