I was very happy to see vegepygmies in Serpent Skull, because they're one of my favorite humanoid races that I've never done anything with. Into the Darklands gave them some awesome flavor about how they hope to spread their russet mold, and I came away with the impression that they're somewhat less malicious Cybermen/Borg types. They can't understand why anyone wouldn't want to be infected with russet spores. Your descendants will be hardy and long-lived, after all, and quite numerous.
Is it just me, or are the vegepygmies of Saventh-Yhi the perfect opposing army for the serpentfolk in Part 6? They're immune to poison and mind-influencing effects, rendering two of the serpentfolk's best weapons useless. I can see pragmatic/ruthless/slightly evil groups allying with the vegepygmies and offering them access to the tribe of humans to make more vegepygmies, or troglodytes to make thornies. Maybe even offer them the morlocks--they're close enough to humans that they should generate viable mold men, and are dangerous, unpredictable and weak-willed as is. Maybe arrange a deal where the elderly and sick of the human tribes are given the ability to live again as hosts for a generation of vegepygmies.
Has anybody's group actually allied with the vegepygmies? Or is their assimilationist attitude and lack of speech enough to get them killed by most parties?
Vegepygmies creep me out. Maybe they lack speech, but it's alway fun to have them point at a pc and make the Donald Sutherland noise from Bodysnatchers.
Is it just me, or are the vegepygmies of Saventh-Yhi the perfect opposing army for the serpentfolk in Part 6? They're immune to poison and mind-influencing effects, rendering two of the serpentfolk's best weapons useless. I can see pragmatic/ruthless/slightly evil groups allying with the vegepygmies and offering them access to the tribe of humans to make more vegepygmies, or troglodytes to make thornies. Maybe even offer them the morlocks--they're close enough to humans that they should generate viable mold men, and are dangerous, unpredictable and weak-willed as is. Maybe arrange a deal where the elderly and sick of the human tribes are given the ability to live again as hosts for a generation of vegepygmies.
I like where you're going with this. My group is hacking their way through the Screaming Jungle on their way to Tazion right now, but once they hit Saventh-Yhi I might have to expand on this little seed you've just planted in my brain. Thanks!