I'm prepping an encounter for the Iron Gods AP. The creature is a plasma ooze, contained in a room with a 5' doorway, it is a 20' space creature.
Plasma oozes do not have compression. It seems like it cannot actually leave that room (without a DC 30 Escape Artist check)? Is that correct?
A quick survey of oozes reveal many (most?) do NOT have compression, but a few do, which leads me to believe this is intentional. Am I missing something?
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I'd say it's intentional. "Compression" would indicate the ability to make your entire form smaller. Like if you had a whole bunch of puffy fur or spikes around your body. Many oozes (gelatinous cube, for example) have pretty uniform density, so they wouldn't be able to compact themselves down smaller.
I'm pretty sure I've seen an ooze with an ability like "elongate" or some similar word. They change their total shape to squeeze through openings. Same total mass but in a long, thin form. That might have been a unique ability, though. Can't find anything like that in the Universal Monster Rules.
I guess you are talking about:
It can fire plasma rays up to 60 feet. So players can take advantage of its size, but it's not as easy as simply staying out of the room. And this one got a healing ability that is more helpful if the PCs deal less damage per round (because they avoid melee).