Why bother with an ochre jelly adult miniature?
Ochre jellies are common in D&D 5E, and where you have ochre jellies, you have ochre jelly adults. That’s not an official name; it’s just what I decided to call ochre jellies which haven’t yet been hit with either lightning or slashing damage and been broken into 2 smaller (either medium or small) sized creatures. I called the ones which had been split ochre jelly babies, since theoretically a baby ochre jelly would be smaller (yes, I know all about the claims that all of the Oozes are from bits of Juiblex that fell off of him, but nobody has verified that and I want to believe in baby oozes even if nobody has seen them), but mostly I call them that because I love Doctor Who and it makes me happy to call them ochre jelly babies. This mini fits well on a large sized base, which covers the undivided oozes. It’s a pretty good bet that you will need both an ochre jelly adult and an ochre jelly baby miniature at some point.
What about this mini?
This miniature came from Reaper Miniatures, in the pack Translucent slimes (2) #77306. This miniature was sculpted by Kevin Williams and is exactly what I want in an ooze mini. I have quite a few minis created by Kevin Williams, and they are some of my favourite minis. His kraken in particular is magnificent; it will definitely be featured later. Reaper also does a good job with their translucent miniatures, and they ink up well.
How useful is this mini, really?
Ochre jellies are included in 14 published Dungeons & Dragons 5th edition books:
- Baldur’s Gate: Descent Into Avernus
- Call Of The Netherdeep
- Deck Of Many Things
- Ghosts Of Saltmarsh
- Journeys Through The Radiant Citadel
- Monster Manual
- Out Of The Abyss
- Phandelver And Below: The Shattered Obelisk
- Planescape: Adventures In The Multiverse
- Quests From The Infinite Staircase
- Strixhaven: A Curriculum Of Chaos
- Tales From The Yawning Portal
- Waterdeep: Dungeon Of The Mad Mage
- Xanathar’s Guide To Everything
Being represented in 1/3 of the published books is not too shabby for a big blob of goo. If you’re running published adventures, they are popular enough that you will probably want to have an ochre jelly adult (and a baby as well) on hand, because they show up a lot. If you homebrew like me you still likely want to have them on hand, as they are great monsters, and as the PC’s try to slice their way through them, watching the realisation dawn upon them that they are making things worse is absolutely priceless.
But why are you doing this?
As usual for these videos, my aim is to provide good views of the miniature and sizing information about it. As I already pointed out, the ochre jelly adult fits well on a large size base and that’s the correct size. I would like to also thank the wildlife artist Sherrie York, reduction linocut art authority, for kindly allowing me to use one of her reduction linocuts, Shivano Sunset, as the backdrop for my minis.