# Race: Myconid > [!info] Quick Facts > | | | > |---|---| > | **Rarity** | Extremely rare | > | **Perception in Gryth** | Neutral. Almost nobody has met one, and those who have are rarely believed. | > | **Guide Section** | Extremely Rare Races | ## Overview Far beneath the tundra of [[Continent - Auken|Auken]], in caverns that lie deeper than the dark dwarf holds and were old before the dwarves went down at all, the myconid colonies grow. They are fungus made upright and made thoughtful, and they take no interest whatever in the affairs of the surface. A myconid encountered above ground has almost always been sent, and the colony that sent them does not explain itself to anybody. ## Growth Rather Than Birth A myconid stands between four and seven feet in height depending on age and colony, with a broad cap, a pale fibrous body, and limbs that are stiffer than a humanoid’s and considerably harder to break. They have no bones and very little blood, and injuries that would end another person are met with regrowth over a season or two. Colour runs to the greys, ochres and deep blues of the caverns they grow in, and an experienced observer can generally name a myconid’s colony from the cap alone. ## The Language of Spores Myconids do not speak aloud and have no apparatus for it. Everything a myconid wishes to communicate is released into the air as spores, and the meaning arrives in the mind of anyone standing close enough to breathe it. Surface dwellers who have held such a conversation describe it as having been told something rather than as having heard it, and most find the distinction difficult to put into words afterwards. Within a colony the exchange is continuous, so that the whole is aware of itself in a way that no gathering of separate people ever manages. ## The Colony and the Surface A colony is governed by its eldest, decides slowly, and regards the surface as a distant and noisy irrelevance. Myconids do not trade, do not treat with other peoples, and have never gone to war over anything a surface historian would recognise as a cause. Those sent up are given a purpose and very little latitude, and they return to the colony when the purpose is discharged, unless something has happened to prevent them. ## Myconid Traits **Ability Score Increase.** Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Wisdom score increases by 1. **Age.** A myconid reaches maturity in a single season and lives around 40 years, though a colony persists indefinitely. **Creature Type.** You are a Plant. **Size.** You are Medium or Small. You choose the size when you select this race. **Speed.** Your base walking speed is 25 feet. **Darkvision.** Your darkvision has a radius of 120 feet. **Rapport Spores.** You can release a cloud of fine spores to carry your meaning. You can speak telepathically to any creature within 30 feet of you. The creature understands you only if it can understand at least one language. You can speak telepathically in this way to any number of creatures at once, and a creature in that radius can speak telepathically back to you. You can use your Rapport Spores to provide the verbal components of your spells. **Distress Spores.** When you take damage, you can use your reaction to release a burst of acrid spores. Each creature of your choice within 10 feet of you must succeed on a Constitution saving throw or be poisoned until the end of your next turn. The DC of the save equals 8 + your Constitution modifier + your proficiency bonus. You can use this trait a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest. **Fungal Resilience.** You have resistance to poison damage, and you have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the poisoned condition on yourself. You also do not need to eat, though you must remain in contact with damp earth or decaying matter for at least 1 hour each day. **Languages.** You can read and write Common and Undercommon, and you can communicate by means of your Rapport Spores. You cannot speak aloud. ## Connections - [[Continent - Auken]] — The myconid colonies grow in caverns far beneath its tundra --- ## Gallery ![[Race - Myconid.jpg]] --- *See also: [[Races]]*