Dwelling in secluded caverns, dank grottos, murky rainforest undergrowth or other dark and out of the way places, the Mushroom men, aka the Myconid, are peaceful and harmonious fungus people.
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@chrisphillips44616 жыл бұрын
A mushroom walks into a bar.The bartender says, "we don't serve your kind here"The mushroom says, " why not? I'm a fungi."
@TerrariaGolem6 жыл бұрын
Lol you guys
@gekolvr07345 жыл бұрын
Please leaf
@furkanzomer39825 жыл бұрын
@@gekolvr0734 You mean... Lett-uce leaf?
@miszajansen5 жыл бұрын
that joke was quite sporing
@Luigiou14 жыл бұрын
It’s not that we’re against myconids. It’s just that we’re kind of busy at the moment; there isn’t mushroom in the dining hall.
@thefox3476 жыл бұрын
You try to communicate with the Myconid, but it ignores you and tries to meld with your athletes feet.
@Im-Not-a-Dog5 жыл бұрын
THE FOX I had a Dwarf character that didn’t bathe and barely ever took his armor off. Eventually, he got a myconid infestation in the crouch piece of his plate male. Took 3 Druids, a Cleric, and 5 different salves to get rid of the itch. I tried to get the party’s paladin to Lay on Hands but I’m sure you can understand why she was opposed to the idea.
@PresbyterianPaladin6 жыл бұрын
Oh man, when you were mentioning the hive mind aspect of these myconids and mind flayers, I wondered what if you and your party were to find a myconid village under attack by mind flayers and the way you defeat it is by joining the entire myconids collective hallucinations and overcoming the elder brains hive mind through it, that would be epic!
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Jacob Brown that is a brilliant idea!
@fumarc45014 жыл бұрын
Wow. Now that would be fun. The War of Mushroom vs Mind.
@aubreyackermann84323 жыл бұрын
This is your elderbrain. This is drugs. This is your elderbrain on drugs.
@TheMikesc152 жыл бұрын
No joke, I am 95% sure this is literally the story to the new game of Resident Evil: Village.
@Lujuria406 Жыл бұрын
Your gonna love bulders gate 3 then
@miniman68436 жыл бұрын
"Fondness for Fungus" should be a Grateful Dead cover band name.
@BLOODKINGbro3 жыл бұрын
Da fungus, among us!
@anthonyhernandez77993 жыл бұрын
Dude, AJ Pickett it's so passionate at explaining things that for the first three and a half minutes when he was describing the myconids I really thought he was talking about real life fungus
@MisterTutor20106 жыл бұрын
So a third of the time, Myconids are magic mushrooms :)
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Yes. :D
@MisterTutor20106 жыл бұрын
They're only doing magic mushroom stuff 1/3 of the time.
@nathankelley14666 жыл бұрын
I have been using myconids in a game i am running currently. In my game the myconids are contacting the astral plane when they meld, since the astral is like a realm of dreams. Anyone in rapport with the sovereign can effectively see into the part of the astral from which they have their hallucinations. As a bonus ability, a large tree that they draw nutrients from has a portal to the astral plane between its roots. They have grown down into the shallow cavern inhabited by the myconids and other fungus. A local group of goblins have been capturing myconids and removing their spores, to drug their enemies. They also have corrupted the Rapport spores, turning them into a street drug called "Kack". So when the PCs, eliminate the goblin threat for the myconids, they can also take the spores harvested by the goblins and use them in combat. I would recommend myconids to any DM wanting to stretch their imagination. +
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Excellent! I particularly like the idea of the Goblins using the spores as a street drug.
@nathankelley14666 жыл бұрын
Thanks bro!
@pudding33876 жыл бұрын
Good Lord. Before I watched your videos I thought video games were so original. Everything seems to have been done by DnD first! Elder scrolls, dark souls. Stolen content.
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, you may hear tabletop role players lament that computer games call themselves RPG's.. it is not the most accurate description of what a game does, rather, it is more of a description of where the inspiration for the game play came from. A lot of role playing games steal stuff from D&D (good example is Warhammer 40K), but in the end, the important thing is we have such a diverse world of choices over what to play now, it's all worth it.
@millerrepin44526 жыл бұрын
To be fair D&D takes inspiration of real life. The idea of humanoid lizard, mushroom, snakes etc isn't that original. Not to say that D&D doesn't have any OC but the most copied characters aren't that original in the first place.
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, even the Lord of the Rings was based on ancient Scandinavian Saga, all the names of the dwarves in the hobbit are directly from Gylfaginning ("the fooling of Gylfi"), the Prose Edda written by Snorri Sturluson.
@Im-Not-a-Dog6 жыл бұрын
AJ Pickett I find there’s a good reason for this. It makes D&D more engaging for people of all cultures(or at least most) if you have something that is familiar to them. As people who come from European cultures, we find creatures like dwarves and centaurs to be a normal fantasy creature because they’re something that is common in our mythology, but to someone from Tonga the concept of a centaur is a bit more unique and foreign because they don’t have those creatures in their native stories. The same way that a Quetzal would seem completely foreign to someone raised in Russia, but to someone from Mexico it would be more so familiar. It makes players of different real world backgrounds have a natural affinity toward different in game creatures, cultures, and pc races, in effect creating a more diverse and realistic fantasy world when these players and DMs get together to share ideas. This was even more so exemplified with the development of the internet allowed people from all over the world to share campaigns and game ideas near instantly, giving people a view of their fantasy world from a perspective they would have otherwise never had access to.
@scottmcley51114 жыл бұрын
Hey brother! I was wondering if you could shed any light on the relationship between Myconids who are Lawful Neutral and the evil Demoness lady of Fungi, Zuggtmoy. THANKS!!!
@AJPickett4 жыл бұрын
Much the same way Humans view Asmodeus.
@firetarrasque46676 жыл бұрын
I wonder what interactions between Ilithids and Myconids would be like. Terrifiying, I bet.
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
It would be strange, since the Myconids are intelligent, but have no tasty brain meat for the Mind Flayers.
@That80sGuy19722 жыл бұрын
@@AJPickett It's antagonistic but not for competitive reasons.
@bluebird32817 ай бұрын
I think the Myconid's would just dose them with Psilocybin and you would have a pod of Ilithids floating around mentally giggling and talking about how their tentacles are melting.
@shamusfarmer6 жыл бұрын
I dont know if i really believe this. I never saw a mushroom move at all, where did they say these things live? Are there any in North America?
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Only near lake Geneva, originally.
@ryderma14 жыл бұрын
There's a few hiding out in the Cypress swamps down here in Louisiana. Its rumored that the owner of the club in New Orleans called The Parade is actually a Myconid.
@shamusfarmer4 жыл бұрын
@@ryderma1 Well, I've never been to the swamps of Louisiana so I guess you could be right. Do they make good pets? A mushroom man sounds like a kick-ass pet.
@tatsusama31926 жыл бұрын
For some reason I got a huge feeling of Amish monks, haha. Just want to be left alone, very spiritual, don't press or infringe on others. I like these characters a lot. Thanks for bringing them to my attention!
@Im-Not-a-Dog6 жыл бұрын
I can just imagine a colony of these guys living in a sewer beneath a large city, living off the wastes of the society above. Farming with human manure as the growing medium.
@phill-ez4hd6 жыл бұрын
Like a week ago I homebrewed up some mushroom people, i haven't used them yet and this is a much better option, so thanks!
@fumarc45014 жыл бұрын
Mushroom people are the dankest.
@DuskyPredator6 жыл бұрын
Actually might be an interesting start to one off, or taken further of there is a fix, to have the players start out as reanimated corpses by Myconids. They would not know who they were, would follow orders from Myconids, and with the right tools you maybe could even do something like they fill in pieces of what their character was like before. Sort of like an in story character creation, with them brought back to life at the end.
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Hey DuskyPredator, nice to see you again. Great idea, certainly beats waking up in prison for the start of the adventure :)
@DuskyPredator6 жыл бұрын
AJ Pickett I had heard of the prison unknown traits thing, but it kind of sounds hard to understand a story reason to not know who you are or gage other characters. But if you were fungus zombies which did not have self awareness at first, I could see just asking to role just for height when it might come up to random parts of memories, or languages. A reason people to monster races could find themselves together. I had been really busy with work lately, but with Xanathar's guide I had been playing around with ways to randomly roll everything about a character. Past idea I had been trying think of was a real horror story for in Underdark, mostly been thinking of Ilithid, but not think that despite Myconids not being evil, they could open a whole lot of horror potential.
@gregorywentzel56566 жыл бұрын
Im new to all the d&d lore and actual playing. Im giving it my best shot to learn about whats out there and honestly there is way more then i thought. You videos are a great help with learning about it all but ive still got some questions. Like what is a tortle or i think they are called the tortoise folk? Thanks for the videos keep'm coming
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Seriously, so many people are asking me to do a vid on the Tortles. I am going to make a vid on them for you.
@dieterfrank87296 жыл бұрын
I'm going to be making a coral variant of the myconids, so I'm coming back to this video again. This is going to help a lot for our underwater adventure. :)
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
One thing to keep in mind is that coral is formed by tiny Cnidaria, the Polyps, little sea anemone clones, millions of them, covering the hard shells of previous generations, so the living part is the skin. They also have a mobile stage where they spread out and drift to new surfaces, settling and feeding by filtering the water. A mobile form could be a connected skin of Polyps that move together like a sheet of muscle, with a solid core, like an endoskeleton, or, they could settle as a skin across an old, actual skeleton of some long dead creature, effectively animating it. So, they could exist in many forms, an immobile "Thinker" colony, a mobile "cloak" or "Web" form that can smother and poison a target, and a "Skin" form that anchors to and animates something else, either a coral core or an old skeleton. They could have a potent toxin they can jrelease into the water or stingers like any of the other jellyfish species.
@dieterfrank87296 жыл бұрын
THAT'S SO COOL! There's an area called the Cnideria Ridges our DM made. Our DM wanted the Cenosarcids to have a wide range of physical appearance, so the polyps take on the growth traits of other mundane corals they settle near. We named this variant the Cenosarcid (from the cenosarc of coral anatomy), a nod the the Myconid naming. I think the new UA Druid Circle of Spores could still be used for corals. Flavor-wise, it would probably not be spores but chemicals like hormones. I'm not a biology buff so I hope I'm not missing something here. I was thinking of taking away the light sensitivity, since corals seem to do well enough in sunlight, and make it viable for a player coming in soon to play as one. Also, if a single "creature" would be made up of hundreds of Cnideria, I'm thinking of taking inspiration from the Geth of the Mass Effect series. My worry is game balance. If they lose the daylight sensitivity, what negative should they have to balance it? Maybe disadvantage against poison saves?
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
I would make them more sensitive to temperature, the Cenosarcids are vulnerable to heat and cold attacks, plus, if they spend more than an hour in freezing temperatures, or very hot temperatures (say, close to a volcanic vent or in the very cold, deep water) they start taking damage and suffer cumulative states of exhaustion, leading to death.
@dieterfrank87296 жыл бұрын
AJ Pickett Thanks! This really helps us out a lot! :) That feels like a fair trade, daylight sensitivity for temperature sensitivity. Does it make sense to change the spores into hormones or toxins more?
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
The mobile polyps behave a lot like spores, I think you could get away with leaving them largely the same.
@RayJackson886 жыл бұрын
Your wealth of knowledge and experience really show what a fungi you are!
@carl160596 жыл бұрын
I want a official PC Myconid template now =D if anyone knows of a good one tell me
@trajanfidelis15323 жыл бұрын
Druid:These mushrooms are my friends... Barbarian:*chewing on a small squirming shroomling* uh...
@jerodak64624 жыл бұрын
How well do they get along with flail snails? Do they ever meld with them to collect and archive some of their poetic wisdom? Are there any rare cases where a myconid might meld with a non-myconid they are particularly fond of and travel out of the colony with them for a while?
@shawnhowe73115 жыл бұрын
Would melding with them Be like doing Ayahuasca with them?
@AJPickett5 жыл бұрын
Pretty much, yeah.
@GeraldBlack14 жыл бұрын
As à fellow biologist I can appreciate what you do, and love it
@jspenny6 жыл бұрын
Would a Monk be immune to the effects of spores due to the poison and disease immunity?
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Yes.
@robert20636 жыл бұрын
Hey AJ like the channel. Learned so much from your channel. One thing that I like to do with Myconids is that when they drop to 0 hp a cloud of hallucinate spores as a final defense. Have you ever thought about doing Nagas?
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Oooo, good choice Robert! *adds to list*
@stevenpeterson85823 жыл бұрын
I love myconids and other fungi. I know you did an ecology of oozes, how about an ecology of fungus creatures - hit myconids, gas spores, shriekers, brown mold and yellow mold, and all of the other related things that might actually form a full ecology in some damp underdark cavern.
@AJPickett3 жыл бұрын
Can do.
@Yuudaddy6 жыл бұрын
The real Mushroom Kingdom ;]
@ryanulrich21473 жыл бұрын
Recently, the group I dm, taught a young myconid, Stool, how to surf spider webs. It caught on very fast, and loved every moment of it.
@Jpteryx6 жыл бұрын
I wonder if Myconids might use Gas Spores as decoys to scare off enemies.
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Yep, they certainly do (you can see them deployed in a lot of the art work)
@mudshrooze6 жыл бұрын
7:39 is a picture from my legit favorite Wii game called Mushroom Men: The Spore Wars
@mudshrooze6 жыл бұрын
In fact it looks like a few mushroom men pictures are in it! That's awesome. They are essentially Myconids. It works perfectly
@kurtoogle45766 жыл бұрын
I'll soon be running n updated version of the old AD&D A series slaver modules - which use the myconids. I think I'll have these creatures take a more active role, with the slavers using tactics like Illithids. I also like the idea of making them jungle based rather than forest based. Thanks!
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Most welcome Kurt, let me know how they work out for you.
@mudshrooze6 жыл бұрын
Can't believe I missed this one! It's like in my top ten and races. Super stoked you made a video thank you sir
@MrCompassionate016 жыл бұрын
So I've got a weird fungi related situation in my game and I need advice. The players have made a pit in the middle of the forest and thrown some russet mold in there. Then they've thrown corpses in, human corpses. Then they threw picks in and helped the vegepygmies widen the space AND gave them a tunnel to the surface. Then they fed 8 goats and a giant corpse to them. A week passes of the pygmies and thornies hunting for food and a chief grows. The players try to explain to the pygmies to NOT kill them or their workers but it's tricky. Now the players have realised there's about 60+ fungi monsters in there and they want them dead. They set a few on fire by burning a barrel of dwarvern booze but they're hard negotiating with me that basically the monsters wouldn't know how to put the fire out and they'd just run around into eachother and tons of them would burn to death because they're plants. (except they're not weak to fire and they're actually fungi) It's a damp cave and they'd have side tunnels now after a week of digging through soft soil. Should I kowtow to them and let tons of them die or should I let this obviously f**king stupid mistake they made have the horrible, potentially game ending consequences you'd expect.
@PeramFare6 жыл бұрын
MrCompassionate01 make them role an intelligence check depending on the role tell them that "you remember from your studies that fungi actually don't share many traits with plants, and further more tools considerably speed up the excavation process." Or on a low role "this should defiantly work, fungi are basically plants right? And it's not like we gave them tools or anything."
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
I would absolutely let this escalate to disaster.. then give the player characters a lead on a magical artifact that could deal with this situation, but they have to go on a fairly difficult quest to attain it.
@MrCompassionate016 жыл бұрын
Good idea! I'll do that if they escape but right now we ended the session with them throwing barrels of burning booze into the hive of 60+ monsters. Luckily Thornys only run 30ft per turn so they might be able to run away if things get rough. Strangely some of them are on the verge of blaming me for this on the grounds of "you let our schemy player have a vial of Russet Mold". This is like sueing a hammer company because you repeatedly hit yourself in the head with a hammer. Players be crazy. PS: The schemy player isn't a traitor or working against them, he's just terrible at scheming.
@firetarrasque46676 жыл бұрын
I agree with PeramFare. My personal tactic is, if the players do something really, really dumb, i'll make sure they are actually doing that, give them a chance to change their mind, and then after they fail to do either, (There is no if.), they suffer the consequences and somehow scheme their way out of it.
@MrCompassionate016 жыл бұрын
3.14 Dragon I agree it's the done thing to warn your players. I always give them a chance to figure out how silly they'e being. I had the Vegepygmies hiss like evil monsters and when a player used comprehend languages to talk to them the creatures simply said 'SUSTINENCCCCEEEEEE' Then there started to be drag marks with blood trails leading into the cave, as if they'd been hunting. I made sure the players were well aware of how many of these things appear from merely a single humanoid corpse, let alone Giants. The townsfolk started to complain about groups of mushroom dog monsters running amok. I even let them know that the soldiers they'd ordered would arrive in a day or two but they rushed out the fire plan immediately anyway. Problem is by this point it's far, far too late for four level 5 heroes to solve this problem. It has grown horribly out of control so it's gonna end up like this: cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/368317981681385472/391542960635772928/PAMTq3W.png
@edendemarlo Жыл бұрын
We visited a wizards village with a myconid cavern underneath. That cavern was coming under attack by more zenophobic myconids, my druid (LN) really apriciated the various uses for the huge variety of mushrooms and spores. Used goblin gained gold to tade for a lot of them. Used that druid for so many campaigns and made the supplies bought from that village for a long time. Long may you serve the cycle Sayn Worwalker, who died slaying a Green dragon.
@matthewcecil85526 жыл бұрын
Myconids can be found in cow pastures underneath what is known as a "cow-pie". This "cow-pie" is actually the excrement of cows, and not as the name suggests a delicious cowfectionery creation. But this inedible shit pie hides a trippy secret...
@matthewcecil85526 жыл бұрын
@1:05 oh well aren't you just living the f-ing dream. I've got a biomedical science degree and would love to work in a genetics lab. Specifically a research lab focusing on CRISPR/CPF1. I'd also like to make informational youtube videos like you. Exploiting all those years of finely developed research skills. Anyway... Talk to you later on Patreon.
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Science is mostly quite boring as a career, but, not having to deal with customers was awesome.
@krispalermo81332 жыл бұрын
Some manure compost for gardens bought by the truck load also have some very interesting mushroom growths to .. analyze .. through personal testing.
@antwan13574 жыл бұрын
For some reason i can imagine a scene stolen from star trek with a Psionic Elf mind melding with a Myconid to communicate.
@eatsshootsandleaves78386 жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful race!!! So delightful. I was worried at first that they would be evil servants/soldiers of Zuggtmoy. Is that another race of mushroom folk I'm thinking of?
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
They are easily corrupted and dominated by the Demon Queen of Fungus, some might be warped after hundreds, if not thousands of years of her influence, so, they may have been Myconids, but are not something very foul and deadly.. a name springs to mind.. Death Caps.. but I will need to look into that..
@madammarshmallow94685 жыл бұрын
In out of the abyss a similar plot occurs in which zuggtomoy is corrupting a group of myconids. The effects she has on them are actually really fascinating
@thefightingfedora29766 жыл бұрын
This is perfect. I'm working on an encounter with Myconids. The adventurers find a cavern occupied by Myconids. In the distant past an earthquake destroyed a massive natural column. Fearing a cave-in, their aging king climbed the remnants of the column and found he could just reach the ceiling. Bracing himself beneath the rupture, the king cut off contact with his fellows and entered a trance-like state before eventually dying. Since then, any Myconid sensing their end makes the climb and joins the King Column, intertwining as best they can with their petrified kin. The Myconid's have been receiving visions during their meld that make them think the column is in trouble. They ask the adventurers to take a spore-potion that will shrink them down so they can enter the column to investigate. Any suggestions on what they encounter in there?
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Sentient Nematodes are under attack from an invasion of demon infused Tardigrades.
@firetarrasque46676 жыл бұрын
The thing to note is that Tardigrades aren't extremeophiles. They can survive in their, but not live. So if the players make it a hellish wasteland, THEY DID EVENTUALLY KILL THEM. With luck. I hope.
@ixFusiionzxi5 жыл бұрын
A whole bunch of that would be ants (using a giant spider/giant wolf spider stat blocks) burrowing and making a nest in the column weakening the structural integrity
@jomonkey27586 жыл бұрын
I once made a myconid character named mycelium. He was a great spell caster
@Montagemock6 жыл бұрын
One of my players is actually running a myconid homebrew character. It's pretty interesting when he trys to interact with a person who is unfamiliar with rapport spores
@randallbaumgardt34242 жыл бұрын
Had a player want to play a myconid enchanter wizard a master of spore magic. Could not say no to that. It was a strange and fun as you can imagine.
@GrimgoreIronhide6 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, these jolly fellows got their debut in The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe, marching alongside the hordes of the White Witch. They are originally an evil species, and were probably meant by C.S. Lewis as a dark subterranean counterpart to the tree based Dryads.
@justingraves12916 жыл бұрын
Awesome video I have long loved Myconids
@PlanetLuthian5 жыл бұрын
Okay... I'm gonna befriend a myconid sprout. Keep it safe and fed in my sachel and name him Groot... Teach it dance. Use Telepathy for the party as needed. Reanimate party members for battles to be reincarnated later. Throw hallucinate packets at enemies.
@mastermind26816 жыл бұрын
reminds me of odo from ds9
@fumarc45013 жыл бұрын
Are there any other fungi races and monsters? I could really use some inspiration.
@AJPickett3 жыл бұрын
Yes, a few, most of them are evil.
@fumarc45013 жыл бұрын
@@AJPickett Perfect! The bigger the better.
@ryderma14 жыл бұрын
I have a picture in my head of a Samurai Myconid. I'll have to draw/paint this at one point 😁🍄🍄😁
@dragonballtalk85276 жыл бұрын
can you kill and eat it to trip
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
You don't have to kill them, they will just give you some baggies of spores (the next lot will cost you though).
@KevShaw8085 жыл бұрын
Our DM played these folks so well in Out of the Abyss. It was kinda hard for us to go back to adventuring because we just wanted to hang out with the myconids and do shrooms.
@countzero52146 жыл бұрын
Great video AJ - I've been looking forward to this one for ages. Many thanks :)
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Most welcome!
@jacobesther32245 жыл бұрын
So if my character mind melds with a myconid, will that mushroom man know my thoughts, or will i just trip.
@dragonballtalk85273 жыл бұрын
Possible remastered video candidate but audio quality is ok enough
@CourtlySeaDog6 жыл бұрын
Thanks for taking my suggestion, AJ! i love your content, keep up the good work!
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Thank you Don! Great suggestion, really inspired me.
@SeraphimKnight6 жыл бұрын
Really would want to play a myconid PC but the sun damage is a big bummer...
@CheatingZubat Жыл бұрын
Balders Gate 3 brought me here. Thank you for the info!
@beowulf2933 жыл бұрын
Im a huge fungus nerd too, largest organism in north america is a fungus
@Norwyn3 жыл бұрын
What about Pando?
@alexriley34883 жыл бұрын
Love the videos would love to see one on Vegepygmy aka Mold Folk.
@AJPickett3 жыл бұрын
Great idea!
@PinkProgram6 жыл бұрын
So myconids can use the Wood Wide Web for Noosphere Drift? ^_^
@firetarrasque46676 жыл бұрын
Yes, and you heard about it on the interblag.
@Polygonfella1662 Жыл бұрын
Myconids are easily my favourite fantasy creature
@kordelshorgar1226 жыл бұрын
whenever i heard about fungi people i had flshbacks from warhammer 40k and the orks
@kordelshorgar1226 жыл бұрын
P.d i also love myconids although i don't play much of dnd i used them in the rpgs i play
@abrahamsorby79456 жыл бұрын
My friends and I have determined that they CAN in fact be poisoned, but only with vinegar or alkali, or something similar with an extremely high ph content. However, fire seems to be the most effective solution.
@abrahamsorby79456 жыл бұрын
Or an evaporative effect
@TraniXz6 жыл бұрын
On topic; Myconids are a race I really wish saw more play. I have so often had huge quests take place within the "hallucination zone", where things are even crazier. I had everyone swap character sheets once and play as if the fighter character suddenly was in control of the magician (mind changing) or battling birds that look like tiny airships, on top of their airship, which looked like a giant sea-gull. Ideas a plenty. Off topic: AJ; In the fantastic video on Frazzy OrbLove you made, you said "Challenge me", here's a challenge for you. You often make these "non-biased" reviews, how about a biased review? How about you attempt to make us all become, say, Aurilites? (Auril is in my mind due to Icewind Dale 2 being replayed in the house hold) Convert us, if you can. And try to make arguements that are logically sound, not just crazed fanatic-zealot babble.
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Challenge accepted.
@TraniXz6 жыл бұрын
Fantastic, already excited.
@jorywalkinshaw92493 жыл бұрын
That skeletal mushroom corpse...... damn.....
@questingchris96616 жыл бұрын
Thanks for bringing these guys to my attention, I was trying to think of an interesting non hostile creature to introduce a group to the under dark before they have to deal with their Mind Flayer problem. I was thinking Flumps but I think I can do so much more with this.
@Mare_Man3 жыл бұрын
I wonder how a PC myconid would overcome the sunlight sensitivity when outside?
@AJPickett3 жыл бұрын
Paint and an umbrella.
@Mare_Man3 жыл бұрын
@@AJPickett Maybe something like a sedge hat with a veil?
@venkelos6996 Жыл бұрын
Myconids have often impressed me; a hove mind that isn't bad. Formians don't have to be, either, but they often seem more driven to skirt the edge of tipping past their resources, meaning every action IA about increasing said things, and even the biggest, most powerful of them hardly seem motivated beyond "get food, make space, increase number." Illithids are just evil, but Myconids can combine higher thinking patterns with their hive mind mentality, and not see everything else as either a resource, or an option for torture. I do wonder, though, why Zuggtomy doesn't have a majority of them under her control? Numerous Prime Material creatures have been dominated by such a Demon Lord, and fungi seems to be her thing. She has Cultists here, and used to visit more often, so why aren't more of them under her sway? Do they have a defense against madness, and corruption?
@daeins8 ай бұрын
Because of Psilofyr, the creator and patron to Myconids. He's a really fun deity with some cool lore.
@michaelkelligan79316 жыл бұрын
Ahhh yes the myconids,the druids best buddy! 😁
@enxman76976 жыл бұрын
Great video as always! I liked expecially the reanimation spores suggestions. Meanwhile watching i was thinking about leafcutter ants (who grow mushrooms for eat feeding them with leaves) and so i've imaginated a community of Formians and Myconid in a sort of symbiosis. There was also a type of mushroom who grow on the head of certain type of insects and manipulate them (made more famous by the videogame Last Of Us), so maybe such thing can change the political status of such colonies...
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
oooo good ideas!
@Mat232 жыл бұрын
This was great. Did you ever do an Out of the abyss walkthrough? I think it would be super helpful. Not many on youtube.
@AJPickett2 жыл бұрын
Not really my forte
@beastwarsFTW6 жыл бұрын
So are they mindhives that want to become a havemind?
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
Yeah, basically, though I think they are content with who and what they are, evolution will end up favoring the more intelligent and aggressive myconids. The more passive and contemplative will tend to get killed off more often, so, evolution is basically the end result of many years of brutal attrition and basic statistics.
@firetarrasque46676 жыл бұрын
So eventually Flumphs will become violent?
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
It would have to be under extraordinary provocation.
@emilyperreault29026 жыл бұрын
Keep you the good work please you make really good videos
@colinbrown746 жыл бұрын
Myconids aka Hive Mind Druids
@the_mushroom_lad4643 Жыл бұрын
Finally a video on us little guys
@AJPickett Жыл бұрын
You are looking for the video of mine on the Campestri
@RoughGalaxyYT3 ай бұрын
I do hope you read the comments on these older videos. I have a very specific request (should you have the time and ambition to fulfill). Could you consider making some location specific playlists? (underdark, feywild, alternate planes, etc) The idea is to assist viewers find the information they may be looking for. This is a selfish request, I admit, as your Ecology of the underdark video inspired me to make an adventure in the darkness for my players, but trying to find more videos specifically in that space is less than fluid.
@AJPickett3 ай бұрын
Yes, it is somewhat unrealistic to comb through 700 video thumbnails trying to guess where I mention the Underdark. I am being increasingly prodded by viewers to make a big series of videos where I systematically tour the entire realms.. and of course, the Underdark is part of the realms!
@RoughGalaxyYT3 ай бұрын
@@AJPickett that would also be good! I wish it was possible for viewers to make playlists. The internet would crowd source that in a couple days lol
@yogsothoth75946 жыл бұрын
It might be an idea to have any kind of psychic damage do damage to other creatures who have a strong telepathic bond with that creature.
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
kind of like conducted lightning. I like it!
@firetarrasque46676 жыл бұрын
Theirs even a base for that, it's a warlock incantation called something like Steel Mind if I remember? One of my players took that a while back, I don't know.
@stevesteverson79096 жыл бұрын
why are openings and ends so loud :( cant list to you and go to bed
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
I actually reduce the volume of the intro's by 50% and amplify my audio, sounds fine to me, so I really appreciate feedback like this, allows me to fine tune things further, I will try reducing down to 30% on the next one. Thank you Steve.
@That80sGuy19722 жыл бұрын
Special homebrew status: Myconids using animation spores on living beings and that being failing to resist. It's an opportunity to get creative, a special fungal-base pseudo-undead (not undead and never really died, more of a fungal hybrid that tends to favor Myconid relations and mutate).
@VsevolodTheTabletopCrafter3 жыл бұрын
I like those guys❤️ Made a squad for my games recently. Anticipate new scenes with them 🤩
@MultiCommissar2 жыл бұрын
"Juffo-Wup is the power of life... hot warmth in the cold Void. It flows through all things, binding them together, making them one. You are Non-Juffo-Wup, you cannot understand. Below is the pod of Juffo-Wup -- there for a thousand centuries. When we are cold, the pod opens and warms us. When it is dark, the pod clenches and lo, there is light. You are the Non. The pod is not for you. You must leave."
@wadewaters11564 жыл бұрын
So because I love cheese and like the idea of eating cheese and D&D talk like you do I always have these guys addicted to cheese and good ones will help or trade for cheese while evil one's will steal or lead players into dangerous places to eat the cheese advantage on rolls dealing with good guy's with cheese used or disadvantage if evil and they know players have cheese for skill checks please keep doing more videos love the shows and thanks for pink ooze cheese I thought of the two together making more people addicted to the best cheese in toril that my halflings make and use to get in close or get the players assassinated it is outlawed in 3 towns now to own or possession of cheese with any pink colors and my halflings use this as well slipped into players bags ect. And telling that they were selling to towns folk
@PungiFungi Жыл бұрын
I love Errol Otis illustration of a myconid melding circle in module A4…… he had them in a shapes and sizes instead of Fantasia like mushrooms.
@fuzzyzombielove5 жыл бұрын
A lot of research and interesting info here. They are charming and fascinating creatures. I don't want to downplay that, but I came here seeking one particular piece of information that wasn't totally outlined in this video: I'm gathering you _can't_ have sex with them? Look, we all know RP goes to some weird places. Don't judge.
@LittleMoose1 Жыл бұрын
I know a lot of these are older videos, but I just got into painting miniatures. I watch your videos to learn about each creature or being that I'm painting as to get a background of who each miniature is, where they came from, what color and why, Is it recovering from some sickness or other. Now I'm doing myconids and fungal beings. Awesome content as always.
@samsamsamsamsamanilla52815 жыл бұрын
The Forgotten Realms has Araumycos as the lord of the Myconids, that would be an excellent adventure arc. I've never heard of a fiendish myconid with a connection to Zuggtmoy, the Demon Queen of Fungi, does anyone out there run that idea in their campaign?
@vodkalord6941 Жыл бұрын
First encountered these guys in icewind dale in a sub terranian cave leading to Dorn's Deep. They were violent but so was everything in that game. Thought it was a cool monster myself. Would probs try playing as a homebrew monk. Will let my firends name the char to reflect the lore
@NovaRuner Жыл бұрын
I know these guys are normally peaceful, imagine if somewhere you have a rogue circle that forms a cult to worship Zuggtmoy. I mean she is the demon of fungus. Maybe she corrupts the peaceful mushroom people.
@AncientRylanor694 күн бұрын
turning
@lmao23516 жыл бұрын
A bit of a weird question but as u metioned in the dryad video u said that they can Bond with mushrooms. Can they Bond with myconids?
@teixeiradasilva62996 жыл бұрын
Cool for you :)
@Kevinkapon5 жыл бұрын
I'm going to be playing as a myconid druid in an upcoming game. Thought it would be fun to try out, and the GM was cool with it.
@Mikonid_Ozone3 жыл бұрын
Nice guys
@jeroenvanwees32505 жыл бұрын
What cuddly nickname did the Myconid give his girlfriend? Fungal :)
@zayadavis83056 жыл бұрын
Oh my god...power ranger mushrooms with tmnt weapons they have arrived to fuck shit up
@Kai-ow9gi5 жыл бұрын
I’m borrowing them in my Star Wars RPG, they make a great new addition to the universe
@forcelightningcable96392 жыл бұрын
15:00 you’ve just described Weekend at Bernie’s in the Underdark
@moregasmthepowerful29596 жыл бұрын
I would have thought that the reanimation spores would not reanimate via necromancy magic, but would infest the corpse and control it through these means. I.e. If the corpse was cut open, it would be filled with fungal webbing and growths.
@AJPickett6 жыл бұрын
That is exactly what they do, and what you would find if you cut them open.
@moregasmthepowerful29596 жыл бұрын
AJ Pickett Ah, I see. It must be a difficult task for a player to RP their PC in this form.
@federicoriva35925 жыл бұрын
Opened my mind and made my day, thankyou.
@millerdiamond7085 жыл бұрын
do they like to play infected mushroom music in the underdark lol