Homebrew Gas Spore Species Details
A fungus like creature granted sentience, color ranged from vibrant blue to citrus orange, these creatures also range in size depending on their growth stage. They have stalks growing from their head that give them a beholder like appearance with a central eye, they use this form to keep stronger creatures away and ambush those that are weak infecting them with their touch or death spores.
Gas Spore Traits
Ability Score increase, Age, Alignment, Size, Speed, Darkvision, No hands, Natural weapon, Death spores, Flight, Eerie resemblance, Creature typeAbility score Increase
Gaining intelligence from a beholder, you retain some of the benifits. Choose either intelligence or wisdom and increase it by 1.
Age
Gas spores not being creatures meant to live long, they can live up to a year but most last longer by dying and infecting others with their spores reversing the aging process.
Alignment
Gas spores tend towards a chaotic alignment, affected by beholder thoughts and feeling they tend towards chaotic neutral putting themselves first usually.
Size
As a Gas spore you fill the size of large creature, however you may easily fit into spaces meant for medium creatures as you are mostly gas
Speed
As you have no legs or opposable arms to crawl with, you have no walking speed. You instead may use an innate 20ft flight speed to maneuver.
Superior Darkvision
As a creature of the underdark, you've gained superior darkvision but lost your sight beyond this radius making you blind.
No hands
You are unable to wield weapons or use shields, and cannot use items which require manipulation like tenderbox and other tool which you couldn't feasibly use with your mouth or mushroom stalks, you may still fill somatic components
Touch
Your poisonous touch is lethal, you have a natural weapon of 1d8 poison damage
Death Spores
As a Gas spore your entire existence is based around infecting and continuing on through your infected hosts when they die, this happens when you die, your body exploding outward with deadly gas and spores potentially infecting those exposed killing them quite quickly.
Gaseous levitation
You may hover with your flight speed (20ft) but in order to fly you must not be wearing medium or heavy non-mithril armor and must be unencumbered
Eerie resemblance
As your body is strikingly similar to that of a beholder, things that see you might not realize your true nature, a creature that sees you will believe you are a beholder unless they make a nature check with the dc of 8+your Deception (Char), with a successful check they know you to be a gas spore, with a failed save you appear to be a beholder through and through.
Plant
Your creature type is considered plant, although any ability specifically stating it will work on plantoids with a Cr level, you are immune to these effects otherwise you will be affected, and your odd shape means you will have to have barding specifically made for you (see barding rules for more details)
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