Monster Monday: Sewer Slick, Low-Level Diseased Slime

Today's Monster Monday is the sewer slick, a small ooze that thrives on filth and decay, commonly found in middens, caves, and of course sewers.  These low-level slimes can spread disease with their touch, as expected for a creature that feeds primarily on excrement.

My goal in creating these oozes is to provide GMs with a slime that has a Challenge Rating of less than 1 to populate low-level dungeons.  Most oozes are too tough for a party of 1st level adventurers delving into a goblin warren or kobold den.  Sewer slicks add some slimy variety to beginner dungeons without creating an unintentional boss battle, threatening a Total Party Kill, or ruining the party's weapons or armor, as some of the more common lower-level oozes tend to do.  GMs who pay attention to dungeon ecology know that even kobolds need to poop - sewer slicks are the perfect monster to inhabit the recesses of a dank toilet cave.

For your own sake and mine, I will refrain from finding a stock photo to represent these coprophagous monsters.

The following text in gold is available as Open Game Content under the OGL. Open Game Content is ©2016 Jonah Bomgaars.

A sickly pile of diseased goo surges out of the rubbish heap

Sewer Slick               CR 1/2

XP 200

N Small ooze

Init -1; Senses blindsight 60 ft.; Perception -5

DEFENSE

AC 10, touch 10, flat-footed 10 (-1 Dex, +1 size)

hp 5 (1d8+1)

Fort +1, Ref -1, Will -5

DR 5/slashing; Immune ooze traits

OFFENSE

Speed 20 ft., climb 10 ft., swim 20 ft.

Melee slam +2 (1d3+1 plus disease and distraction)

Special Attacks disease (DC 11, filth fever), distraction (DC 11)

STATISTICS

Str 12, Dex 8, Con 13, Int --, Wis 1, Cha 1

Base Atk +0; CMB +0; CMD 8

SQ plague bringer

SPECIAL ABILITIES

Disease (Ex)

Filth fever: slam - injury; save Fort DC 11; onset 1d3 days; frequency 1/day; effect 1d3 Dex damage and 1d3 Con damage; cure 2 consecutive saves.  The save DC is Constitution-based. 

Plague Bringer (Ex)

A sewer slick does not take any damage or penalty from diseases.  It can still contract them and spread them to others, but is otherwise immune to their effects. 

ECOLOGY

Environment any

Organization solitary, pair, infestation (3-12)

Treasure none

Sewer slicks are a low form of ooze that breeds and thrives in excrement.  These greenish slimes are commonly found in the trash heaps, outhouses, gutters, and sewers of the world, often in groups of three or more.  Many a beginning adventurer has taken a wrong turn in a kobold or goblin warren and found themselves knee-deep in filth fighting an infestation of sewer slicks.    

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-your cloacal d20 despot