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>>21565981
I want to include a race that is basically sapient slimes in my setting. The thing is, I 'also' want to include non-sapient slimes as a relatively common monster type, low-ranking minions for my ultimate villain. Besides making the former humanoid and/or attractive like picture related, with the latter also being darker and stickier than the sapient ones, how can I make them more distinct from each other, so the sapient ones won’t be attacked for what the monster ones do? Would shapeshifting abilities work?