MOTHER MYCELIUM SENDS HER SPORE-BOIS INTO THE WORLD FOR ADVENTURE
d2 Is it essentially a walking reproduction organ?
- Yes
- YES
D4 Sentience/Sapience
- Non-Sentient/Mindless/P-Zombie
- Basic Sentience
- Collectively Sapient through the Mycelial Hive Mind
- Individually Sapient, however can connect to a Mycelial Hive Mind
d6 Reproduction Method
- Spontaneous Spore Explosion
- Constant shedding of spores
- Fusion with another life-form, take over their reproductive organs
- Take root, lose sentience, release spores, die.
- SPORE CANNON- Fires off a jet of spores faster than the Apollo 11 launch, looks like an especially explosive sneeze.
- Mimic the mammals, rub against other mushrooms, swap genetic material, REJOIN MOTHER MYCELIUM, produce mush-babies
d8. Civilization- This is not necessarily from most to least advanced or visa versa.
- No civilization to speak of, may act as individuals or as animals
- Hunter/Gather
- Horticultural/Pastoral
- Engaged in trade with local non-mushroom folk
- Confederation of multiple mycelium monarchs
- Nation-State
- Continent spanning interconnected underground civilization
- Intergalactic, they’re just having a little visit with us
D10 Preferred Diet
- Delicious Dirt
- Eat Sugar, Piss Alcohol
- Scrummy Old Wood And Leaf Litter Treats, Lignin is best
- Gimme Some Trash, Cigarettes And Diapers Delightful
- We Hunt The Mega-nematode
- Hack Into Root System, Trade Some Tree Energy
- Symbiotic Chlorophyll Friends And Phosphorus (Cheese And Oysters Please)
- Meatmeatmeatmeatmeatmeat
- Weird glowy rocks (radiation and magic)
- Literally anything
D10 Shape
- Puffball with stubby legs
- EXTRA TALL AND THICC
- Thin and tiny
- Huge cap on thin body
- Squat and wide
- Multiple heads/caps from one trunk
- Densely packed compost held together and moved with a mycelial film
- Like an inverted umbrella, water and things tend to accumulate in their cap
- EXCEPTIONALLY PHALLIC
- Not dissimilar to a cluster of coral, hard to distinguish a “head”
D12 Feature
- Thick shaggy white mane that darkens to black as it ages.
- Gills that reach all the way down
- Bright iridescent cap
- Covered in lacy fungal veil
- Hundreds of fractal mycelial limbs
- Constantly drips a sticky colored milk
- Red
- White
- Indigo
- Octarine
- Has huge, intimidating fungal teeth. Might just be for appearances
- Has no legs, bounces on its stalk/stem
- Exudes an irresistibly delicious smell
- Is followed by orbs of foxfire
- Has a circle of “eyes” around its cap, 360 degree vision
- Can blend into a wooded environment exceptionally well
D20 What Happens When Eaten
- Slow Agonizing Death
- Fast Painless Death
- Slow Painless Death
- Fast Agonizing Death
- Severe nausea and intestinal distress
- Paralysis
- Mild Hallucinations
- Intense Hallucinations
- UMAMI, counts as a ration
- Intensely Delicious, worth significant sums to gourmands
- Fungal Take-Over
- Cured of all physical diseases and poisons
- Cured of psychological/spiritual diseases
- Removes ability to feel fear
- Intense feelings of love and connectedness with all living things
- Bioluminescent for 1d20! (exploding) hours
- Hyper-development of neural connections, +1d6 Int or Wis, permanent synesthesia
- Loss of one of your senses for 1d6+1 Days
- Sight
- Smell
- Touch
- Taste
- Hearing
- Proprioception
- Telepathic connection to the Mother Mycelium
- Astral Projection
D100 Quirks
- HUGE- 6m tall, conically shaped, small insects and animals make their home in it
- Decays into an permanent ink that is favored for inscribing spells
- Taking a bite makes you double or half in size until you take damage.
- Has a pack of 12 tamed badgers that follow it, to keep the snakes away
- Has a symbiotic relationship with giant ants
- Are highly protective of their smaller pinlings, have massive beefy fists to back this up (as a giant’s club)
- Mother Mycelium and its siblings are on the moon, this Mushroom is here:
- To learn more about this green world
- To seed this planet
- To meet with its earth-bound counterparts
- To trade with the meat-animals
- Can, if holding hands in a circle with two other Mushroom Folk, make a gateway into Faerie
- Causes intensely rapid putrefaction with a touch
- Nervously sweats gravy when in proximity to a steak.
- Taking a bite briefly gives access to all of the memories and sensations of the entire mycelium.
- Glows brightly enough to light a 10 foot radius upon touch.
- Gills ring and tinkle like windchimes when excited.
- Has a small colony of tiny venomous spiders living within its cap.
- When under immense stress, the cap bursts with a repulsive stench.
- Has the ability to hear any thoughts related to its consumption.
- Has a green thumb– rapidly enhances the growth of any nearby garden
- Has grown inside of a corpse. It now controls the remaining bones and walks around using them as an exoskeleton.
- Is always drugged by its own psychedelic side effects
- Has an unusually large _______ as a mount
- Praying mantis
- Millipede
- Cockroach
- Daddy long legs
- Rolly polly
- Snail
- Has replaced it’s original mushroom cap with a
- Bird’s nest filled with hungry chicks
- A plate from the nearest inn
- An old newsboy cap
- A tea kettle
- A traffic cone
- Another, smaller mushroom man
- Constantly encourages others to rub their cap for “good luck.” May or maynot be spreading its spores
- Is light enough that it can use its cap as a parachute or a hang glider in high enough winds
- Has a perambulator full of soil and mushrooms. 50/50% of being normal mushrooms or baby mushmen
- Exudes a TERRIBLE smell
- Ass
- Onion armpit
- Old wet leather shoes
- Thioacetone
- Rotting Meat
- Rancid Cheese
- Wears a tiny crown made of twigs. Proclaims itself the king/queen/ruler of whatever location it travels to.
- Its moist smell constantly attracts a swarm of mosquitos.
- Is a Mushroom Animal
- Actively encourages people to partake of its flesh
- Bruises easily, but its soft squishy body is otherwise immune to blunt trauma
- A large specimen is being carried on a palanquin by four smaller specimens
- Can regenerate as a Troll
- Can regenerate as long as there is anything left of it
- Goes through its entire life cycle in:
- 1 year
- 1 month
- 1 week
- 1 day
- Tries to wear human clothing and blend in, but is terrible at it
- Is the current host to a portion of Mother Mycelium’s consciousness, possessing localized omniscience and vast powers
- Can survive being completely dehydrated for many years in stasis only to awaken by being rehydrated
- Thinks secondary sex charactaristics in humans are hilarious
- Is technically a Rot Elemental
- Is on an epic pilgrimage to
- The Mushroom Mosque
- Aunt Mycelium, sister to Mother Mycelium
- The Mushroom Graveyard
- The Moon
- The Goblin Market
- The End of Time
- Really really wants to be an adventurer just like you.
- Is a strangely excellent dancer
- Grew on the corpse of a Witch; contains snatches of her memories, consciousness and subtle magic
- Grew on the corpse of a Wizard; is completely batshit and prone to stacking stones into towers and exploding
- Is the home to a unique species of insect
- Has Tinder Fungus in its lineage and is exceptionally flammable
- Has a symbiotic relationship with an Ooze (Note to self make ooze generator)
- Can absorb large amounts of water to inflate to huge sizes
- Has Foot Fungus in its lineage and can run like an olympic athlete
- Was born with an intense desire to find something
- Is wearing exceptionally bulky armor to hide its fungal nature, might adhere to a bizarre chivalric code
- Can telepathically communicate with anyone who ingests its spores.
- Wears a necklace of tiny desiccated mushrooms, won’t explain their purpose
- Can filter poisons and heavy metals through its body, may help a local settlement with contaminated waters
- Makes adorable noises, most attackers need to Save to hit it.
- Is electrified and causes electro-magnetic interference. Causes a lighting bolt upon death. Many mushroom folk can generate a storm.
- Grows from graveyards where they’ve been specifically introduced, local populace sees them as continuations of the lives of the deceased
- This particularly sulphurous specimen is a native to Hell, the final fate of all things that rot.
- Claims to be a gnome, even has a conical hat-like cap. Obviously is not a gnome–I mean unless gnomes are mushrooms, who am I to judge?
- Is void black, intruded into our dimension after a botched teleport or disintegration spell. They shed Black Hole Spores.
- Manifests a massive mustache made of mycelium…that’s it
- Always travels in packs of 1d20!, becomes highly distressed if far from its siblings
- Can release air from pores in its cap to create musical sounds
- Piccolo
- Trumpet
- Trompone
- French Horn
- Tuba
- CONTRABASS SAXAPHONE
- Has a jack-o-lantern type face carved into it and glows from within with bioluminescent light
- Eating a bite will make you fly for a full night. Terribly afraid of deer.
- Is hollow inside, but also much much larger. Let it swallow you to walk the Fungal Road.
- Looks exceptionally human except for the mushroom cap, knows secrets about divine beings and ancient blood magic.
- Can burrow through any organic or semi-organic material at high speed
- This mushroom wears an awful lot of leather, don’t ask where from.
- Has tiny angelic wings that may or may not work, their touch is fatal
- Has been disconnected from Mother Mycelium and is now a spy for the October King
- Is shaped like a twisted seven fingered hand, its presence attracts things.
- Was once a person before a red haired sorcerer turned them into this.
- Is painted up with clown make-up for some reason?
- Eating all of this mushroom man will allow you to come back from death once
- An aura of spores induce an intense reaction in living creatures, save or be affected by
- Lizard-Brain Fear
- An irresistible urge to dance
- Frothing violent rage
- Intense love
- Full body paralysis
- Ravenous hunger
- Is filled with people guts instead of mushroom guts
- Constantly seeps a liquid that acts as a random magical liquid.
- Has a random piece of strange loot from a terrible future
- Is sticky enough that it can walk up walls and across ceilings without issue
- Is able to form any simple tool by folding its hands/mycelium. This also includes most simple keys
- Man use its mycelium to puppet smaller creatures, Sav vs Magic to resist
- Lacks any sense of pain or self-preservation. When it is about to die, it instinctually latches onto the closing living thing and explodes (3d6 bludgeoning, 10’ area, save vs deafness) This spreads its spores as well
- Has been cut off from Mother Mycelium, is now an oozing host for The Orkus
- Cap looks like a 10 gallon hat, rides a Mush-Steed, herds Mush-Cows, deft at using his mycelium as a lasso.
- Speaks a constant stream of complex koans
- Can root itself to the earth and feel all movement within 1d100 miles
- Shrieks loud enough when startled to shatter glass and eardrums, as Shatter spell
- Is actually a juvenile Mi-Go
- Has access to a vast array of fungal super-tech, fungus guns, fungus cybernetics, fungus space ships etc
- Is actually the devolved monarch of a parallel world fought over by hyper-evolved mushroom and dinosaur people
- Lives most of its life as a dormant spore inside of an animal or person until conditions are right and it grows through their heads and takes control
- Has a diet made entirely up of paper and paper products, can recite any information written on any of its meals
- Is worshiped as a fertility deity by a local cult, it’s pretty confused by this but is pretty pleased with the attention.
- Has a very large toad sitting on top of it, will be very cross if the toad is removed
- Is affected by darkness and sunlight as a vampire, might subsist on blood and sap.
- There are two Mushroom Folk who look exactly the same. One is delicious and one bite will change your life forever. The other would kill a dragon with just a lick. They don’t know which is which.
- Is a member of a strange psychedelic stoner metal band
- Is part of a Mushroom Adventuring Party, roll 3 more Mushroom Folk up, they may have player classes or at least thematic hats.
- Name as many mushrooms as you can from memory, roll on this table that many times
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