Green slime (Dungeons & Dragons)

In the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the Green slime is an Ooze. It is more akin to a plant than a creature. It is a horrible, fetid groth, resembling a bright green, sticky, wet moss which grows on the walls of caves, sewers, dungeons, mines and the like.

Characteristics and habits
The Green slime is notably different from other Oozes. Being a growth, it is fixed to one place and cannot move or attack. For the most part, it is forced to feed off of vegetable, organic or mettalic substances in an underground wall. If it grows on a ceiling, however, it can sense if someone passes below, and drops onto them. Living creatures touched by a Green slime eventually turn into Green slime themself. Green slime is vulnerable to a lot of things, including light, heat, frost, cutting, andcure disease spells. These are the primary defenses against the creature. The Green slime's acid secretion is fairly harmless to wood and skin, but can disolve metal.

Green slimes are avoided by all who know of them, and if found, are removed quickly. Where a Green slime once was, however, another will grow, as even the tiniest dormant residue can germinate to form a full sized ooze again years later.

Green slimes cannot speak.

They are regarded as neutral in alignment.