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I think there's been too little credit awarded to the fearsome dungeon encounter: the gelatinous green cube. :-pThis silent stalker that devours and digests the unlucky adventurer to leave only bones and equipment left trapped inside it, until in the end they drop out of the cube and is left in a pool of acidic ooze.
It's meant to be alittle funny..hence the looks of the characters in it
Idea completed: Party of adventurers stumble upon something unknown..a large cube of green ooze. and before they know it, the little guy has to touch. As he does, tentacles starts to spawn and his two friends draw weapons (probably not the first time the little fellow has got them into a scuffle)
Painted over a few evenings, several layers and as in 9,9 out of 10 paintings: no reference used.
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Photoshop and a wacom intuos tablet used.
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Comments: 157
"You have 30 minutes to move your jello monster, your have 10 minutes, your jello monster has been crushed into a cube, you have 30 minutes to move your cube."
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OMG a friend set one of these on us - so scary! Love it, well done
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Ran into a lot of 'em in your D&D days?
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I think a better title would be "Ahhh... Guys the key found me."
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A lot of adventurers have been sporting glowsticks lately.
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And the winner of the D&D Darwin Awards go to .... The Halfling!!
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Probably a kinder not a halfling. If someone plays a kinder you can just about guarantee they'll metagame, steal from PCs and NPCs, intentionally set off traps, and intentionally draw unwanted and unneeded attention to the party. If a player wants to play a kinder its thinly veiled signal that they want to be nuisance and annoyance to everyone else at the table.
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I love that clueless halfling who's about to become cube food. This is amazing art.
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"And so wizards commit another sin another the natural order, we're supposed to eat jello, jello is not supposed to eat us."
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Epic? But their challenge rating is only 3. 
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Its all in the GM who plays them. they can be used in very cool ways
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Pour a potion of invisibility over a cube, so the cube is invisible, but the skeletons in it aren't. So the party sees what looks like a hovering skeleton approaching them, with other stuff floating near it.
When they go to investigate, the closest person gets absorbed by the cube, and the rest of the party sees them just floating in midair. The investigator though, is taking damage every turn from acid.
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Like having a trap that drops a Gelatinous cube on an unsuspecting player.
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Like that yeh! or possibly a "ice floor" made of cube
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Oh this is lovely. Do you mind terribly much if I appropriate this (with your sig intact, obviously) as the header image for my level-0 D&D campaign's Roll20 page?
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I laugh every time I looks at this piece. Oh how I'd love to encounter a gelatinous cube myself. I'd probably end up being the rogue who goes and messes thing sup for the rest. I've done so in many adventures before...
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This is some great art! I'd realy like to use it for a blog post I'm writing about halflings. Of course I would credit and reference this to you...
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I don't think it's possible to say how much I love this piece... It's just fantastic!
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That is a fine looking gelatinous cube!.. and a "stupid fat hobbit!"
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Have to wonder if maybe the 'little guy' isn't a Kender
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Yeah, they tend to stick their heads and fingers into stuff that aint good for them
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Hi! I love the art. I hope you don't mind, but I'd like to use this in a set of personal cards for use by myself and friends. They won't be sold, and you will be credited on the card. If you have an objection to this personal use, let me know, and I'll change the picture to something else. Thanks!
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No problem at all, glad you asked
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I like everything about this. You did an grand job showing how the light filters through the cube while still representing other light sources.
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I love the expression on the little guy's face! Good work.
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I hate to be "that guy", but it's supposed to be practically invisible, not glowing green. Regardless, nice pic ^-^
It's also my favorite monster. I have spent probably 40 hours of my life figuring out how to make one as a character.
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Oh I think there are more versions than just one type of cubes like these, depending on the creator, type of game world, type of rpg system and other factors involved
Thanks for commenting and for the feedback!
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Ahahahaha, I love these things! 
I seem to remember one group where someone actually played one as a PC...
We also discovered the way to defeating them from the inside out... just pretend that it really is lime jello. x3
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When I first started playing D&D in the late 70's, I hated these things. First, how can you get excited over a large cube of lime jello? Second, none of the cool weapons you were carrying had any effect on it. And third, the D.M. always made sure you were in a blocked passageway before he sprang it on you. I wish this group luck. Where's that darned sorceress when you need her!
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Excellent, although - I just don't think the tentacles coming off the cube really work with it. In a strange way, I think it'd be funnier to just have it be about as offensive as a moving wall, the jello jiggler from hell.
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