Homebrew Fungian Species Details
One of most unique and hidden races out there, but also one of the most beautiful and awe inspiring races as well. Fungians are small fey beings that take on the form of walking, bipedal mushrooms. Fungians are asexual and reproduce yearly by dumping a special spore in areas full of decaying wood or rotting life. Don't let their appearance fool you, Fungians can be quite tricky little blighters despite their size. Even though they only range in size from 1-3 feet tall, they can be quite the hassle for the unwary or unseasoned adventurer. Not only can they expel a cloud of spores that can cause various effects depending on the fungian. They also have an extremely toxic outer skin that can cause severe pain, swelling and in rare cases death for whomever touches them. However, they have a built in mechanism where if they don't perceive someone as a threat, their skin only produces a slight numbing feeling. Fungians generally only live in clusters of three to five and are rarely seen outside of the Deep Wood or the Underdark. They like to make their homes in fallen and rotting trees or dark and damp caves, feasting on the decaying plant material or rotting life. They can learn other languages by just touching something who speaks it.
Fungian Traits
Fungian have the following traits:Creature Type
You are Fey, Plant, and Humanoid.
Size
They're small, tricky little guys that range between 1-3 feet tall and weigh around 40-80lbs. Your size is Small.
Speed
Due to your somewhat short and rather stubby legs, your base walking speed is 25 feet.
Ability Score Increases
Your Constitution score increases by 3.
Age
Fungians can live anywhere between 1000-5000 years. They're matured and can reproduce as soon as they sprout out of the ground from a spore cluster.
Alignment
Fungians rarely engage with others so they tend to steer towards Neutral alignments.
Hallucinogen Powder
Equal to your proficiency bonus per Short Rest or Long Rest you can expel a cloud of spores in a 10ft radius around you. Any creature or ally caught within the cloud must make a Constitution Saving Throw of 16 + your Constitution modifier or they start suffering from illusions as if under the effects of Confusion. At the end of the round another check is made, on a successful save the effect ends.
Toxic Skin
Any creature that grapples the Fungian or otherwise comes into direct contact with the Fungian's skin must succeed on a DC 14 Constitution saving throw or become poisoned for 1 minute. A poisoned creature no longer in direct contact with the Fungian can repeat the saving throw at the end of each its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success.
Fungal Body
Fungians don’t need to sleep. Instead, they tether themselves to the earth, sometimes even on vertical surfaces; meditating deeply while remaining semiconscious for 4 hours a day. While meditating, they hide, gain tremorsense to the range of 30 feet, and cannot be surprised. After resting in this way, you gain the same benefit that a human does from 8 hours of sleep.
You have advantage on saving throws you make to avoid or end the charmed or stunned condition on yourself due to your fungal nature.
Assimilate Speech
You can learn any language by touching another willing creature that speaks it with a Wisdom Check of 15 or higher. Otherwise you're born knowing Sylvan and Common.
Soft Landing
Due to your soft and porous body you gain resistance to falling damage and only take half of the total rolled damage.
Languages
You speak and read Sylvan & Common, but can learn to speak and read languages with the Assimilate Speech trait.