13th Sage: Day of the Black Pudding

Shards of the Broken Sky has more oozes than you can hold in just one dungeon. Stirring the ooze-pot, I realized that the original black pudding from page 240 of the 13th Age core rulebook is one of the worst-designed monsters in the game. Not if you’ve been playing 13th Age. No, if you’ve been a player, the black pudding has been your secret best friend, a huge 9th level wrecker that deals damage like a spilled pudding cup.

I didn’t add the revised black pudding into Shards, instead I put in a lower level version, saving the updated 9th level monster for today. Accompanying the stats, another great cardboard miniature from Rich Burlew’s A Monster for Every Season: Winter pack.

Black Pudding

Sadly, the curse the Archmage had inflicted on these creatures has just worn off.

9^th level wrecker [ooze]

Initiative: +8

Acid-drenched pseudopod +14 v PD (up to 4 attacks, each against a different nearby enemy)—60 acid damage, and 15 ongoing acid damage.

Miss: 20 damage, and 5 ongoing acid damage

Climber: A black pudding sticks to ceilings and walls when it wishes, sliding along as easily as on the floor.

Slippery: The pudding has resist weapons 12+.

Flows where it likes: The ooze is immune to opportunity attacks.

Ooze: The ooze is immune to effects. When an attack applies a condition to an ooze (dazed, hampered, weakened, ongoing damage, etc.), that condition doesn’t affect it.

AC 23

PD 20      HP 470

MD 19

13th Age combines the best parts of traditional d20-rolling fantasy gaming with new story-focused rules, designed so you can run the kind of game you most want to play with your group. Created by Rob Heinsoo and Jonathan Tweet, 13th Age gives you all the tools you need to make unique characters who are immediately embedded in the setting in important ways; quickly prepare adventures based on the PCs’ backgrounds and goals; create your own monsters; fight exciting battles; and focus on what’s always been cool and fun about fantasy adventure gaming. Purchase 13th Age in print and PDF at the Pelgrane Shop.