Your Wisdom score increases by 2, and your Charisma score increases by 1.

Not much is known about what conditions are needed for a normal mushroom to, instead, grow into a gert, but what is known is that they mature around age 20, and can live to be as old as 300.

Gerts are most often good. Born of the natural magic of Kor, gerts usually try to find peace in the world. Even those turned to the dark by magic usually don't realize the harm they cause.

Gerts are between 3 and 4 feet tall and average about 40 pounds. Your size is Small.

Your base walking speed is 25 ft.

Originally grown from the earth, gerts are accustomed to making their way through the ground. You have a burrowing speed of 25 ft.

You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in darkness, only shades of gray. 

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