Homebrew Fungril Species Details

Fungril are fungus-shaped humanoids often seen in the Underdark. They share several similarities with their myconid cousins, although fungril can also be seen above ground, hidden deep in forests or mountains. They also rely on decomposition, ingesting nutrients from dead plants and animals.

Physical Description

Fungril's heights can range from 2-12 feet (.6-3.6 meters) tall. They often have two arms and two legs, extremities pudgy and broad, although this number is not absolute and can change depending on fungril circle. Fungril also have variety in colour, ranging from purples to greys to yellows. They often have two eyes that, when shut, can be perfectly hidden against the rest of their spongy skin when shut.

Personality + Society

Fungril are seen as pacifists, distrusting of outsiders while also willing to provide shelter or allowing passage through their colonies to those with peaceful intentions.

Community is extremely important to fungril, shown in how they hunt in packs to search for corpses to ingest or in 'melding'. Melding is essentially meditation, where a fungril shares their experiences and thoughts with the rest of the colony, to the point where an individual fungril will learn and feel things that weren't originally theirs. Violence adversely impacts the melding process, which is why it's seen as unnecessary.

Fungril often live in groups called circles, tight social cliques of twenty or more members. Circle members are very intimate with each other, melding regularly, although melding is usually not restricted between circles. A fungril society is comprise of between 1 and 10 circles, usually at least 3, each with their own species niche. Known circle duties include agriculture, exploration, constuction, child rearers, and hunters, although hunters are basically scavengers looking for corpses to either ingest or reanimate into a new fungril. The leader of the circle is called Sovereign, who dictates jobs and is also in charge of reanimating corpses to create new fungril.

Fungril often don't worry about the past or the future, instead living in the moment. Their communal lifestyle and lack of internal conflict can give off the appearance of fungril being a hivemind or collective conscious, although in actuality  each individual fungril has their own dreams, insights, fears, and personality traits.

There are thousands of genders in fungril society, with almost no defining features between each.

*blending the myconid race from dnd and fungril race from Daggerheart*

Fungril Traits

As a fungril, you have the following traits:

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Age

Fungril typically reach maturity after 2 years, typically withering away after 20 years or so. However, some fungril (specifically the Sovereign) have been known to live much longer.

Size

Fungril are typically between 2-12 feet tall, meaning your size can either be Small or Medium. Choose your size. If you are medium, you can change your speed to 30 ft.

Language

Fungril communicate with each other by releasing spores that allow them to speak telepathically. However, you can read, write, and speak in Common as well as Undercommon.

Darkvision

Fungril are well-adapted for the dark. You have darkvision to a range of 60 ft. Within that range, you can see in dim light as if it were bright light, and total darkness as if it were dim light.

Rapport Spores

As an action, you can emit spores within a 20 ft. radius around you, allowing creatures with an Intelligence higher than 2 that aren't undead, constructs, or elementals to communicate telepathically with one another within a 30 ft. of each other. These spores last for up to an hour.

Always Connected

You are able to communicate with other fungril over great distances, particularly to access information. You gain proficiency in History and Arcana checks, and gain advantage on these checks when they involve your home terrain (ex. you gain advantage on a history check involving the Underdark if you/your circle is from the Underdark).