In many campaign settings for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game, Juiblex (also called the Faceless Lord) is the demon lord of slimes and oozes. Juiblex first appeared in the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual. He is likely derived from Abhoth, a similar demonic entity in H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos. Juiblex's lair is on the 222nd layer of the Abyss. A campaign setting is a fictional fantasy world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame. ... Dungeons & Dragons (abbreviated as D&D or DnD) is a fantasy tabletop role-playing game (RPG) published by Wizards of the Coast. ... A role-playing game (RPG) is a type of game in which players assume the roles of characters and collaboratively create narratives. ... In the fantasy role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons, demon lords (also known as Abyssal lords in 2E AD&D) are demons who have gained great power and established a position of preeminence among demonkind. ... Current Monster Manual (v3. ... Abhoth (The Source of Uncleanness) is a fictional character in H. P. Lovecrafts Cthulhu mythos. ... H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. ... Cthulhu in Rlyeh Cthulhu mythos is the term coined by the writer August Derleth to describe the shared themes, characters, and elements in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, his protegés, and writers influenced by him. ... ...

Juiblex also appears as a monster in the roguelike computer game NetHack. A roguelike is a computer game that borrows some of the elements of another computer game, 1980s Rogue. ... A computer game is a game composed of a computer-controlled virtual universe that players interact with in order to achieve a defined goal or set of goals. ... NetHack is a roguelike computer game originally released in 1987. ...

Description

He does not have a physical form as we know it; those who have visited his dark, muddy realm claim he is a slime-like creature who swallows other creatures alive, spits acidic secretions and causes diseases in his victims which can be almost instantly fatal.

Cult of Juiblex

Juiblex is also worshipped as a god by some renegade drow as the god of molds and slimes, although he cannot grant divine spells or divine powers, as he has no divine essence (expressed in D&D 3rd edition as divine rank). In the Forgotten Realms campaign setting, Juiblex has been subsumed by and is now an aspect of the Elder Elemental God Ghaunadaur, the deity of oozes and slimes. Drow (pronounced: (drou, rhymes with cow) are a species of elf in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game. ... Mouldy cream cheese Molds, or mould, are various fungi that cover surfaces as fluffy mycelia and usually produce masses of asexual, or sometimes sexual, spores. ... Tom Cruise and Rosie ODonnell slimed at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards in 2001. ... The Forgotten Realms Second Edition logo. ... A campaign setting is a fictional fantasy world which serves as a setting for a role-playing game or wargame. ... Ghaunadaur (also known as That Which Lurks and The Elder Eye) is a fictional god in the in the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting of the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role-playing game. ...

References

• Cook, Monte. Book of Vile Darkness (Wizards of the Coast, 2002).
• Gygax, Gary. Monster Manual (TSR, 1977).
• Sargent, Carl. Monster Mythology (TSR, 1992).