The excuse there is that said PC is an evolution of the Gray Ooze - Gray Oozes can develop psychic powers if they live long enough. Now as to why this is the case, I don't know, but I do know I've been running a PC in one campaign that's had pretty much this same race for the last 2 years. Now this ooze race gets them and gets to switch between them (or even worse, have multiple at a time), breaking it wide open. do get, you run into an even bigger problem - it is often the main 'schtick' those races have. If you let them switch out for various extra racial features that other races with extra arms/legs/etc. But I don't think the people that want it are going to be satisfied by that, do you? If adding yet more arms and legs and whatever is purely cosmetic, sure.

I dunno, at the end of the day, if there's going to be a Player Race who's gimmick is the their flexible, changable body, it's just weird that their so locked into about 2 different shapes. I take it back, apparently you can only benefit from 1 shield at a time, regardless of limb count.

But it wouldn't be impossible to put a limit on that. I guess I could see Shields being a slight issue with it, because being able to use 4 shields would be pretty silly. But why is it so restricting in how I can transform? Why can I only have upto 2 arms? Why can't I grow more legs too chase down foes? Why would I want to grow legs in the first place? Why can't I grow Flippers or Flagella for swim speed? The idea of a shapeshifting ooze is awesome, don't get me wrong. If you are not incapacitated, you can reshape your body to give yourself a head, one or two arms, one or two legs, and makeshift hands and feet, or you can revert to a limbless blob (no action required). However, in this post, I want to focus on a specific part of the plasmoid's stat block. So, by now I'm certain we're all familiar with the races introduced in the new Unearthed Arcana, The Giff, Hadozee, Plasmoids, ect.

D&d ooze 5e