# Black Pudding

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> [!infobox]
> ![black pudding](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/img/portraits/black-pudding.webp)
> **Type:** Large ooze
> **Alignment:** unaligned
> **Challenge:** 4 (1100 XP)
> **Armor Class:** 7
> **Hit Points:** 68 (8d10+24)
> **Speed:** 20 ft, climb 20 ft

## Stat block

A slow, blind mass of black acid that eats armor and weapons; blades and lightning only make more of it.

| AC | HP | Speed | CR | XP |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 68 (8d10+24) | 20 ft, climb 20 ft | 4 | 1100 |

| STR | DEX | CON | INT | WIS | CHA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16 (+3) | 5 (-3) | 16 (+3) | 1 (-5) | 6 (-2) | 1 (-5) |

- **Immune:** acid, cold, lightning, slashing
- **Condition immunities:** blinded, charmed, deafened, exhaustion, frightened, grappled, prone, restrained
- **Senses:** blindsight 60 ft; passive Perception 8

### Traits

- **Amorphous.** The pudding can move through a space as narrow as 1 inch without spending extra movement.
- **Corrosive Form.** A creature that touches the pudding, or hits it with a melee attack from within 5 feet, takes 4 (1d8) Acid damage. Nonmagical ammunition that hits it is destroyed, and a nonmagical metal or wooden weapon that hits it takes a lasting -1 penalty to attack rolls, crumbling away at -5.
- **Spider Climb.** The pudding can climb difficult surfaces, ceilings included, without an ability check.

### Actions

- **Dissolving Pseudopod.** Hit: 18 (4d8) Acid damage. Nonmagical armor the target wears takes a lasting -1 penalty to the AC it gives, and is ruined once that brings it down to AC 10.

### Reactions

- **Separate.** Trigger: the pudding is Medium or larger and is struck by Lightning or Slashing damage. Response: it splits into two Black Puddings, each one size smaller with half the original's Hit Points (rounded down). Text only for the engine.

## Where you meet it

- [Castle Ravenloft, the Dungeon](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-dungeon.md): *A grey figure at the rack looks up, pleased. Hands scuttle out of every corner, and the drain begins to rise.*
- [Castle Ravenloft, the Tower Rooms](https://curseofstrahd.app/wiki/locations/castle-ravenloft-the-tower-rooms.md): *Around the cauldron, women in black rags look up all at once with the same wet smile. The brew heaves, and…*