RPG related: How exactly is a slime supposed to kill someone?

[Manhattan Sports Club]

Alot of oldschool RPGs had a tendency to leave alot to the imagination (Wizardry and Dragon Warrior being such examples) and the idea of how a mere slime goes about killing someone is one of those things I've always pondered. So I ask, how exactly does a slime pull this off?

[Shadow Kisuragi]

1) Envelope someone's face and gag them.
2) Blunt trauma
3) My personal favorite...enter the body through an open oriface and take control of the body like a parasite/puppet.

[mobiusclimber]

Or 4) They are acid-based, so burning your face off.

[Soviet Conscript]

Or 4) They are acid-based, so burning your face off.

that seems to be the most common consensus and is officially backed up by the various dungeons and dragons monster manuals

[Arkhan]

that seems to be the most common consensus and is officially backed up by the various dungeons and dragons monster manuals

or they are like gelatinous cubes in that they paralyze you, and then suffocate the life out of you and eat your gear.

[Policenaut]

I consider slimes as poisonous and can have a tremendous effect on the character if attacked by one of those slimes.

[exit]

According to the movie "The Blob", it absorbs them quite painfully.

[Soviet Conscript]

or they are like gelatinous cubes in that they paralyze you, and then suffocate the life out of you and eat your gear.

yes, but they are still acidic

i always liked the images of gelatinous cubes with the skeletons in them.

[chrisbid]

their cuteness causes heart attacks in weak people

[shopkins]

Yep, I always assumed they were somehow poisonous or hurt you with their touch. When you get better armor or more HP it's not such a big deal, though.

[Arkhan]

i always liked the images of gelatinous cubes with the skeletons in them.

I prefer the images of my hapless players wandering right into them.

Being a DM rules.

[Icarus Moonsight]

[Nico87]

You might aswell ask why humans are able to throw fireballs or summon indian godesses.

[k8track]

Just as jello has hunks of fruit floating around in it, so too does a slime have shrapnel embedded in it, such as razor blades, hypodermic needles, scratch awls, rusty machetes, and even the occasional mechanical pencil.

[maxlords]

their cuteness causes heart attacks in weak people

Damn...beat me to it

[jdc]

The Baldur's Gate ones simply split and mob you like a one piece roving street gang.

[kupomogli]

3) My personal favorite...enter the body through an open oriface and take control of the body like a parasite/puppet.

Sometimes the slime will enter every oriface if the character is a female. Doesn't seem to take off much damage.

[Jorpho]

A better question is, how exactly could a slime dodge, especially if it was asleep?

I can imagine one neatly deforming temporarily such that the attacker's weapon passes through empty space.

[skaar]

Sometimes the slime will enter every oriface if the character is a female. Doesn't seem to take off much damage.

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[Arkhan]

The Baldur's Gate ones simply split and mob you like a one piece roving street gang.

yeah, those ones are acidic.