Homebrew Fungaling Species Details

 

Ability Score Increase. Your Constitution score increases by 1.

Age. Fungalings first start their life as sentient mushrooms, and slowly grow an adult body over the course of 10 years. Fungalings can live to be hundreds of years old, and keep slowly increasing in height, until they can no longer support their size with sufficient nutrients.

Alignment. The majority of fungalings tend to keep to themselves, being neutral in conflicts, however a rare few become aggressive towards humanoids for consuming mushrooms and plants, driving them to chaos or even evil.

Size. Fungalings are first able to walk and talk while they are about 4 feet tall, but each year they age adds another inch to their height, and roughly about another pound. Your size is Medium.

Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Superior Darkvision. Your sight is adapted to seeing in dark caves or forests during the nighttime. You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern colours in darkness, only shades of grey.

Mushroom Whisperer. You are proficient in Nature. Also, you can cast the speak with plants spell at will, however when cast in this way, you can only speak to plants, not command or move them, and the only plants you can speak to are mushrooms.

Plant Self. You can spend 1 minute clearing away loose soil and ground to plant yourself in the ground, exposing only your head. When you do so, you have advantage on all Dexterity (Stealth) checks, you are prone, and if you spend at least 4 hours planted in fertile ground, you are fully nourished for the next 24 hours. You can unplant yourself as an action.

Subrace. Three kinds of fungalings exist; the two cave-dwelling kinds, crimson and shrieking, and the ones that live on the surface world, the verdant.

Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common.

 

Fungaling Traits

Your fungaling character has the following racial traits.

Superior Darkvision

Your sight is adapted to seeing in dark caves or forests during the nighttime. You can see in dim light within 120 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern colours in darkness, only shades of grey.

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increases by 1

Mushroom Whisperer

You are proficient in Nature. Also, you can cast the speak with plants spell at will, however when cast in this way, you can only speak to plants, not command or move them, and the only plants you can speak to are mushrooms.

Plant Self

You can spend 1 minute clearing away loose soil and ground to plant yourself in the ground, exposing only your head. When you do so, you have advantage on all Dexterity (Stealth) checks, you are prone, and if you spend at least 4 hours planted in fertile ground, you are fully nourished for the next 24 hours. You can unplant yourself as an action.

languages

You can speak, read, and write Common.