Black pudding (Dungeons & Dragons)

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In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the black pudding is an ooze. It resembles a bubbling, heaping pile of thick, black, pudding-like (obviously) goo, roughly 15 feet across and 2 feet thick.

[edit] Characteristics and habits

Like most D&D Oozes, the Black pudding is a mindless, underground-dwelling scavenger which drags itself around caves and sewers and absorbs and digests whatever it finds. It attacks by grabbing, grappling and constricting prey, and then inserting it directly into its liquid-esque mass. It also secretes a deadly acidic substance which strongly and quickly disolves weapons, clothing and organic tissue alike. Also, the Black pudding, when struck, instead of taking damage, splits into two smaller Black puddings (it only does this for slashing and piercing weapons, however). These also split into smaller Black puddings when struck, and this keeps on happening until they are too small and weak to do so further.

Like most oozes, puddings are mindless and thus neutral in alignment.

[edit] Elder Black puddings

Black puddings get bigger as they eat and age. The oldest Black puddings can become hundreds of feet in diamater, and are nothing short of vast pools of inky death. Elder Black puddings have many times the attack strength and hit points of a regular Black pudding, and have much greater splitting and acid secretion abilities.

[edit] Other Puddings in Dungeons & Dragons

Other types of deadly pudding creatures in D&D include the white, dun, and brown puddings. The only significant variation between black puddings and these other types is the terrain they usually inhabit: Black puddings live underground, white puddings live on arctic plains, dun puddings live in arid deserts, and brown puddings live in marshes.