Bottling Template Oozes

[Warhaven]

The extract level that's taken up by the Bottled Ooze discovery is based on the created ooze's CR. As such, can I create a young fiendish gelatinous cube to bottle into a 2nd level extract slot?

[blahpers]

I don't see why not, so long as the GM is okay with it. A lot of GMs don't approve of treating templated creatures as generally available for player use at all, though, unless the effect in question explicitly allows for it.

[Baron Ulfhamr]

Why would you want to do that? A baby gelatinous cube from the lower planes...this feels more like abuse of a perceived loophole in rules than a desire to create oozes with templates. Forgive me if I am wrong about this.

[Falcar]

By the rules I imagine it works but the DM is the one who decides if you ever see one. I don't think you can make an ooze (if so I would like to do that)

Also a baby satanic jello cube is a hilarious creature to imagine.

[partyrico]

I think that it might make a good tie in, but it doesn't say so in the description. So while its mechanically legal, there should be a good RP reason for it. Like every time you go to a new plane, you look for new specimens to study; or you lived on a farm with giant oozes as a child. Either way, while its RAW legal, I would run it by the DM and see if they're good with it. I think its a cool idea, though.

[Warhaven]

partyrico wrote:

I think that it might make a good tie in, but it doesn't say so in the description. So while its mechanically legal, there should be a good RP reason for it. Like every time you go to a new plane, you look for new specimens to study; or you lived on a farm with giant oozes as a child. Either way, while its RAW legal, I would run it by the DM and see if they're good with it. I think its a cool idea, though.

Well, yeah. RP goes without saying. The thing is, they're alchemically created oozes that decay into a pile of powder after a few rounds. They're more like alchemical simulacrums than actual oozes. So, I could very well imagine an alchemist taking a pinch of gelatinous cube, adding a dash of babau slime, and then reducing the number of servings to cook up a young, fiendish cube. :o)

For a lower-level campaign where the alchemist just got this discovery, collecting samples of extraplanar beings would be some great RP in it self.

"Mr. Hound Archon, sir, may I trouble you for a drop of blood or perhaps a bit of fur? Or a feather from your partner there?"

"Of course. You did perform admirably in your task. Pray tell, what do you intend to use this for?"

*mumble* a bottle of alchemically enhanced ooze monster that's just as likely to devour the villagers as it is the creature attacking them *mumble*

"Yeah... no. Find someone else's feather."