Cam Banks introduced three fungal monsters in Price of Courage: Filament clusters, filament thralls, and the fungal creature template. Viva La Dragonlance!
Cam Banks introduced three fungal monsters in Price of Courage: Filament clusters, filament thralls, and the fungal creature template. Viva La Dragonlance!
Here is a link to the Price of Courage Web Enhancement it contains the Filament clusters, filament thralls, and the fungal creature template.
There is a 30-40 acre, 10,000-year-old single organism fungus colony in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (the humungous fungus among-us) that sends out normal looking mushroom caps as "scouts" for food. I see no reason why something similar couldn't develop sentience and become a genius loci (which just happens to be OGL) looking for a new favored slave.
Now I understand why all those Yoopers are so <i>crazy!</i> ;)
The concept of a fungus that turns a living creature into a sloppy fungus-like monster is nothing new for the game... things like vegepygmies and yellow musk creeper zombies come to mind (even though a yellow musk creeper isn't technically a fungus...)...
SO! What about other, more obscure monsters from d20 sources who are fungus monsters? What's your favorite?
Fungus and moss creatures as well as creatures modified for infection by spors, etc., appeared in parts of Return to White Plume Mountain (a 2nd ed. product).