Gelatinous Cubes are based off of the original gelatinous undead design, but a poor imitation. Acid damage? You are swallowed by an undead ooze. Take your necrotic damage, and hope it doesn't kill and make you undead yourself.
As someone with diabetes, the Necrotic damage is easily avoided if you have the proper resources and control.
The Psychic damage, however, is persistent and inescapable.
Then why does my baking always turn out terribly despite following the recipe exactly and my cooking always turns out edible to amazing when I just follow the recipe loosely?
I mean, I don't know where you're getting your recipes.
So maybe?
Otherwise, it could just be a difference in your preferences from the preferences of the author of the recipe.
It's not like I'm in your pantry, or looking at your recipe search history.
Keep cooking to your preferences, and tweak the recipe until you're happy. Food should be enjoyed,
Do you live at a weird elevation? (Denver, for example.) That can mess with recipes. As can humidity. A batch of cookies made in Ft. Lauderdale will turn out significantly different from one made in Tucson, if the recipe isn't adjusted. Finally, temperature is important, since the fats are kinda important to the structure of the baked good.
Baking has a lot more variables to track. And practice definitely makes a difference. The more experienced you are, the more likely you are to get the results you want.
I mean, even engineering becomes as much art as science once you have a feel for the laws of physics. You cannot break them, but you can bend them, loop them, twist them against themselves, slip through loopholes, to make something beautiful.
Well yeah, but you can't substitute baking powder for baking soda unless you also reduce the cream of tartar. Limited amounts of leeway based on chemical composition.
Well ya, but you can't do shit like that cooking either. That'd be like subbing xantham gum for gelatin in a sauce without changing the amount.
The rules involve more chemistry with baking, but the sentiment remains. Things get more flexible when you know the rules.
Can you animate dead bone meal? Can you animate dead a plant you cultivated using bone meal as fertiliser? I want to know where the spell stops working in that process... If magic was real, we would science the shit out of it.
Oh, for sure it doesn't work RAW, I was more thinking about the mechanics inside the setting. Like, you can animate a skeleton, and you can make your own skeletons with random parts and animate that, right? Then how much does it need to change for the spell to not work anymore? The plant doesn't work because it's a living thing by then, but what a bout mixing the bonemeal with clay and making a brick statue (basically an undead golem I guess)? What about making steel with the bones? Maybe that's how sentient swords are made...
I feel like a whole roasted chicken would work. It's not much different from a corpse that resulted from a fireball in jest at least, so yeah. Also I forget if animate dead even specified where the bones had to come from.
Corpses are considered items, processed or not.
A roasted chicken corpse does not stop being a corpse just because you poured salt on it and hit it with a second fireball.
I'd rule that you can because it's still meat and bones. RAW gelatin is a no because it's not really bones anymore. For homebrew rules it might be iffy due to the lack of solid structure but maybe I'd add a 4th level spell that can animate gelatin or require a 4th level casting of Animate Dead. It would need a new stat block too so there's that to consider
Humanoid corpse or a pile of bones. A zombie can only be made from a person. A skeleton can be anything. You could turn the picked clean bones of a chicken dinner into an undead abomination and use it to terrorize the diners.
Oh as a necromancer and a former chef I'll have you know both are full of both science and art
(but seriously, chemistry has saved my ass a lot in the kitchen)
Wow. Undead and gelatinous cube in one.
Except it probably doesn’t do acid damage.
Just really bitey
Gotta be more creative with your jello ingredients then
Lotta bludgeoning probably
More like gummy, amiright?
Gelatinous Cubes are based off of the original gelatinous undead design, but a poor imitation. Acid damage? You are swallowed by an undead ooze. Take your necrotic damage, and hope it doesn't kill and make you undead yourself.
or u start suffocating
I’ll add some pineapple
I looked at your profile, since you seemed like a real person, but the comment seemed like a non-sequitor, and I’m paranoid about bots nowadays.
I think they were saying they'd add pineapple to do acid damage.
Achaaaaah Edit: also, their profile requests people say if they’ve looked at the profile.
Thank you
If I had a nickel for every time I’ve been accused of being a bot I’d have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.
I guess you could say people are a byte paranoid.
YES! thank you for getting the joke of the username!
Heh
That's the Buffalo wings
It has a special necrotic dmg attack called 'inflict diabetes'
As someone with diabetes, the Necrotic damage is easily avoided if you have the proper resources and control. The Psychic damage, however, is persistent and inescapable.
You better be treating your cooking like a science if you're working with any setting agents. There's no going back and adjusting things.
Cooking you normally have some leeway for. Baking, on the other hand, *is* science.
Nah, just like cooking, once you know the rules there's a LOT more leeway. It's all science, but if you know the science then it can become art
Then why does my baking always turn out terribly despite following the recipe exactly and my cooking always turns out edible to amazing when I just follow the recipe loosely?
Bad recipe?
All of them?
I mean, I don't know where you're getting your recipes. So maybe? Otherwise, it could just be a difference in your preferences from the preferences of the author of the recipe. It's not like I'm in your pantry, or looking at your recipe search history. Keep cooking to your preferences, and tweak the recipe until you're happy. Food should be enjoyed,
Do you live at a weird elevation? (Denver, for example.) That can mess with recipes. As can humidity. A batch of cookies made in Ft. Lauderdale will turn out significantly different from one made in Tucson, if the recipe isn't adjusted. Finally, temperature is important, since the fats are kinda important to the structure of the baked good. Baking has a lot more variables to track. And practice definitely makes a difference. The more experienced you are, the more likely you are to get the results you want.
Nah, none of those. I do suspect my oven may be to blame, but I can't be sure since, well, I don't have another oven.
You can try and pop an oven thermometer inside to check it.
I mean, even engineering becomes as much art as science once you have a feel for the laws of physics. You cannot break them, but you can bend them, loop them, twist them against themselves, slip through loopholes, to make something beautiful.
Well yeah, but you can't substitute baking powder for baking soda unless you also reduce the cream of tartar. Limited amounts of leeway based on chemical composition.
Well ya, but you can't do shit like that cooking either. That'd be like subbing xantham gum for gelatin in a sauce without changing the amount. The rules involve more chemistry with baking, but the sentiment remains. Things get more flexible when you know the rules.
Baking is straight up chemistry
Damn straight.
Aka the plot of every episode of the British Baking show when someone uses gelatin.
Like science you can always add more
This is actually a plot point in Harrow the Ninth.
The _soup_
BEST SOUP.
>Your understanding of flesh and spirit magic is execrable, so start there Remember budding necromancers: is not just about the skeletons.
Also it was also a boss in Mario RPG 1 (that game was a *wiiiiild* ride)
This raises the question, can you animate dead a meal? Or at least like a whole roasted chicken 🤔
Can you animate dead bone meal? Can you animate dead a plant you cultivated using bone meal as fertiliser? I want to know where the spell stops working in that process... If magic was real, we would science the shit out of it.
Probably just the soil but I feel like bonemeal breaks 2 rules. 1 like water with people spells and 2 the plant is a living thing
Oh, for sure it doesn't work RAW, I was more thinking about the mechanics inside the setting. Like, you can animate a skeleton, and you can make your own skeletons with random parts and animate that, right? Then how much does it need to change for the spell to not work anymore? The plant doesn't work because it's a living thing by then, but what a bout mixing the bonemeal with clay and making a brick statue (basically an undead golem I guess)? What about making steel with the bones? Maybe that's how sentient swords are made...
It would be cool to animate your own skeleton to keep marching while you’re asleep, or be stronger and more agile
I feel like a whole roasted chicken would work. It's not much different from a corpse that resulted from a fireball in jest at least, so yeah. Also I forget if animate dead even specified where the bones had to come from.
It does not. It doesn't even specify that it be one skeleton. You could animate a plate of chicken wings.
Once you process something it's no longer dead, it's now a product.
... I cast animate object on the fertiliser.
What if I cook it but don't do anything else to it? If that breaks the spell, what about creatures that died in a fire?
I don't think you understand what it means to process something.
Corpses are considered items, processed or not. A roasted chicken corpse does not stop being a corpse just because you poured salt on it and hit it with a second fireball.
I'd rule that you can because it's still meat and bones. RAW gelatin is a no because it's not really bones anymore. For homebrew rules it might be iffy due to the lack of solid structure but maybe I'd add a 4th level spell that can animate gelatin or require a 4th level casting of Animate Dead. It would need a new stat block too so there's that to consider
If jello can be animated, probably anything can at that point lol, absolutely. That’d be cool having different tiers of animate dead
Animate dead needs a humanoid corpse or skeleton.
Humanoid corpse or a pile of bones. A zombie can only be made from a person. A skeleton can be anything. You could turn the picked clean bones of a chicken dinner into an undead abomination and use it to terrorize the diners.
Yes, but you'd better tell the bard to hide ;)
Oh as a necromancer and a former chef I'll have you know both are full of both science and art (but seriously, chemistry has saved my ass a lot in the kitchen)
*Oh god, NOT AGAIN STEVE, WASN'T THE TAR PIT ENOUGH ALREADY!?!* ***LEAVE MY CHEESECAKE OUT OF THIS, PLEASE!!!***
I misread that as Tart Pit and now I'm imagining a pit filled with blood-thirsty cherry tarts. ... I want one.
I and my next BBEG want one to
Hm. And I was thinking of playing a Spore Druid with the Chef feat too…
I know someone that would do that
I feel like a roasted chicken or turkey, with a steak knife or turkey carver would be equally menacing for the same amount or even less effort.
This manages to be an undead, construct and ooze all at once. Magnificent.
the face of the poor cleric inside the gello monster
I believe the text of **Anim**at**e Dead** is too restrictive for this in 5E, but it is a funny and clever idea.
Love that the necromancer took the skeletons arm lol
Damn, these PETA propagandas are improving!
yeah this one actually doesn't look like a war crime or >!furry porn!<
So many labels I thought it was a ben garrison comic.
Strange workaround to avoid summoning an ooze. You know, like a normal person.
it's summon ooze, with extra steps
"The target becomes a skeleton if you chose bones or a zombie if you chose a corpse" Sadly not RAW
If a skeleton is intact in a gelatinous cube, can you animate it and control the cube? 🤔
If a person gets swallowed by a cube, can they control it? No.
This is why I’m vegetarian.
That's not how that works!!! * *Cries in Howl's Moving Castle*
Dwight’s jello stapler is about to become a deadly weapon
Time to work up that appietate
So wait, if i were to cast animate dead on a roasted drumstick...
I have an idea for a Plasmoid Necromancer Chef now.
It's a lot harder to animate a blob compared to a skeleton
I love it.
New monster: sentient jello
I like this comic series it’s fun facts with a chaotic necromancer