Why bother with an ochre jelly baby miniature?
Ochre jellies are pretty common, and where you have ochre jellies, you have ochre jelly babies. That’s not an official name, by the way; it’s just what I decided to call ochre jellies which have been hit with either lightning or slashing damage and been broken into 2 smaller (either medium or small) sized creatures. The name felt right to me, 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 is on a medium sized base, which covers either medium or small sized creatures, unlike the large sized creature before it becomes divided. So it’s a pretty good bet that you will need an ochre jelly baby miniature at some point.
What about this mini?
This miniature, like the hezrou, is a bit problematic. The unpainted metal miniature is from Otherworld Miniatures, a company which I have bought many minis from over the years. It has very recently closed due to the owner’s retirement, so minis are no longer available for purchase from them. However, it has closed so recently that Otherworld Miniature products are still available in retail shops and on the internet. As a result, I’m putting this video up now so if you like the mini, you can look around for it before they are all gone. Supposedly they were going to sell their molds to another company, but nothing has been heard on that for months, so it’s anyone’s guess who has the molds or if they will be making more of their minis at this point. If you want one of their minis, this is probably the time to look for them. I have quite a few of their miniatures, so I will add some more videos of their minis in the coming weeks to showcase those.
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
That’s 1/3 of the published books- not too shabby for a slimy blob. If you’re running published adventures, they are popular enough that you will probably want to have an ochre jelly baby (as well as an ochre jelly adult) on hand.
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 said, the ochre jelly baby has a medium base size and that’s the correct size. Also, as usual I would like to thank wildlife artist Sherrie York, reduction linocut art expert, for kindly allowing me to use one of her masterworks, Shivano Sunset, as the backdrop for the minis.