I have a player who wants to be a myconid fighter, I don't really want to go through the fuss of looking at homebrews unless I really have to. What would be the best official race that could fit for a myconid? At a quick glance any race with poison resistance works well Warforged, Dreugar, grung etc. Custom lineage works but does give you any special traits that could relate to mushroom people.
If i were you I would re-skin the Ghostwise Halfing and mod it a bit. Remove the general Halfling traits of Nimble and Lucky. Replace them with something like poison resistance and ability to Speak with plants.
Thri-Kreen might be a decent choice since it communicates by telepathy that could mimic the communications spores used by a Myconid. Also, I checked some Myconid stat blocks and they don't list resistance to poison so I am not sure why that would be a requirement.
Most of the Thri-Kreen traits could be an option for a specific kind of mushroom person. A hardened leather like surface could account for the armor benefit and the chameleon ability might also work for myconids that blend into the background. The extra pair of small arms might also work since the structure of a fungus person would not need to be well defined.
Yuan-Ti, but replace animal friendship on snakes with Speak with plants that only works on fungus (Myconoid, violet fungus, yellow creeper, any zuggtmoy, campestri,
I hadn't even thought of Ghostwise, that's not a bad idea. I guess I wasn't thinking of a myconid monster stat block as much as I was thinking of "mushroom" people in regards to poison resistance.
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I have a player who wants to be a myconid fighter, I don't really want to go through the fuss of looking at homebrews unless I really have to. What would be the best official race that could fit for a myconid? At a quick glance any race with poison resistance works well Warforged, Dreugar, grung etc. Custom lineage works but does give you any special traits that could relate to mushroom people.
If i were you I would re-skin the Ghostwise Halfing and mod it a bit. Remove the general Halfling traits of Nimble and Lucky. Replace them with something like poison resistance and ability to Speak with plants.
Thri-Kreen might be a decent choice since it communicates by telepathy that could mimic the communications spores used by a Myconid. Also, I checked some Myconid stat blocks and they don't list resistance to poison so I am not sure why that would be a requirement.
Most of the Thri-Kreen traits could be an option for a specific kind of mushroom person. A hardened leather like surface could account for the armor benefit and the chameleon ability might also work for myconids that blend into the background. The extra pair of small arms might also work since the structure of a fungus person would not need to be well defined.
Yuan-Ti, but replace animal friendship on snakes with Speak with plants that only works on fungus (Myconoid, violet fungus, yellow creeper, any zuggtmoy, campestri,
I hadn't even thought of Ghostwise, that's not a bad idea. I guess I wasn't thinking of a myconid monster stat block as much as I was thinking of "mushroom" people in regards to poison resistance.