Why you should play Myconids - Dungeons and dragons art rookzer0

[@xancarter1927]

My favourite Myconid is Chromagil from TFS at the table: "So many complex emotions.... Why can't you just be hungry, or dead?"

[@Rookzer0]

Ha ha ha thats awesome

[@xancarter1927]

@Atlas Brady Ah, society has come so far. We used to have bots in the chat, now we have bots that reply to other bots that reply to comments....

[@Guuuun_]

"TWO....THATS ALL YOU NEED...WHY DO YOU HAVE SO MANY!?" the human npc: ..."good question actually...*

[@ManiaeTheArchivist]

As a dm I had a wizard who had a magic base who was taken care by a circle of myconids they kept the place clean, stocked the materials, and organized the magical items it was interesting

[@caedenkniep3528]

I love these "you should play" videos

[@Rookzer0]

Glad to hear it!

[@adc1222]

This was perfect timing for this video. I'm currently writing a fantasy book, and I recently added in an anthropomorphic mushroom creature named Gustava. Originally she was supposed to just be for a joke (a character gets bored of a conversation and says he has to go take his pet mushroom for a walk, other characters think it's an innuendo, then they go to his home and he ACTUALLY has a pet mushroom), but this video has inspired me to actually do more with her

[@Rookzer0]

Awesome! Let me know how it turns out!

[@RicoLightning]

I could watch you draw mushroom people for hours

[@Rookzer0]

Thank you!

[@RicoLightning]

@@Rookzer0 out of curiosity, do you do commissions?

[@emmanuelmorris7653]

"That doesn't sound appropriate" LOL.

[@Rookzer0]

I may have said that a lot while making this video....

[@emmanuelmorris7653]

@@Rookzer0 lol great design by the way.

[@wackywyvern745]

I love myconids, but i think my favorite homebrew race to exist is large minotaurs

[@Rookzer0]

Not a bad choice

[@FacelessPorcelain]

I really love this series, partly for the art, partly for the ideas, and partly for the fact that each one of these videos inspires me to delve further into how something could be fleshed out or made more interesting or unique, which, as an amateur writer and DM, is very valuable. Speaking of... I like the idea that the myconid telepathy, through some quirk of how it works by reading brain chemistry and hormone levels (meaning that it wouldn't work on constructs, undead, or most extraplanar creatures), is less about literal mind reading and more about being able to read the emotions and intentions of other creatures through examining physical processes. So they can tell that you are angry, but not what expletives you are shouting at them, and they can communicate their unwillingness to fight by broadcasting their calmness, or maybe their fight or flight instinct depending on the situation. With this flavor I might give the myconid some innate ability to cast Calm Emotions and Fear, but only on creatures infected with their spores. Though, that could also be very impractical, so maybe instead it just means that they always get the to-the-point meaning of what people are saying, giving them problems with euphemisms and metaphors. Not because they take them too literally, no, but for the OPPOSITE reason. If a myconid lady looking person was hit on by a human in a bar, the myconid wouldn't so much get a word for word translation of the pick up line, but just the impression of what the human's goals are. "Did it hurt when you fall from heaven" becomes "your appearance inspires reproductive urges in me and I am initiating mating rituals". Thus understanding perfectly what people are saying, but still struggling socially because they understand perhaps TOO perfectly. While this wouldn't necessarily be perfect lie detection or anything, it does cut out a lot of the fluff and various tricks people use in language to avoid questions, distract listeners, etc., and so with this interpretation I'd give the myconid advantage on insight checks against creatures infected with their spores.

[@Rookzer0]

Interesting ideas, I think your on a really good path for making my one's telepathy a fun element for players. Communication being non traditional can create some really interesting situations. Thanks for checking out the video and the well thought out comment.

[@t.maximilianwaechter3208]

Always love these vids, your "Large Characters" video prompted me playing a Loxodon cleric who didn't fit into taverns, this has just inspired me to run a fighter with a symbiotic suit of myconid armor. Or maybe a symbiotic suit of myconid armor with a human fighter meat puppet... hmmmm...

[@lazrustosadow5880]

A suit that will slowly drain their intelligence untill they are a zombie and the miconid will use their knowledge to take over their lives and used for intelligence gathering for the mushroom kingdom

[@Rookzer0]

Symbiotic myconid armor sounds pretty awesome. we talked about that a little in the slime video but I don't see why you couldn't use the same type of build for this option as well. great idea.

[@kingmasterlord]

@@Rookzer0 why not give *the slime* symbiotic myconid armor? the slime can be a protective skin layer and the myconid can share consciousness with it. or have a warforged druid wear that combination so that he can -be a real boy- have living components to his body in some semblance of flesh.

[@izzybluejay2379]

Welp, now I really wanna play a Myconid. I doubt I’d wanna take the negative of sunlight sensitivity to the point of death, but it’s still a unique class that’d make for some really good roleplay. I just would love to play some curious & silent character that just messes around with everything to see what happens and like, calls everyone by descriptors such as, “Void haired friend” and “Towering thorn-fanged friend”. I dunno it just sounds like fun.

[@Rookzer0]

I'd highly suggest the sunlight sensitivity to make the character uniquely challenging but I'd love to know how it goes I'd you do!

[@izzybluejay2379]

Regular sunlight sensitivity is fine, it’s already on other races like kobolds. It’s more the part of, ‘You die from staying in direct sunlight for an hour.’ I feel like it’s a bit overwhelming and not really the kind of thing I want to keep track of in a game...

[@darkfilmsmocing4293]

This will probably be my favorite one

[@Rookzer0]

I hope so, This is definitely one of the weirder ones I think I've made. I feel like I maybe should have bleeped more things :P

[@darkfilmsmocing4293]

@@Rookzer0 Listen considering you make really good art and are really good at explain base core mechanics of a race and what you don't like and what you change about it, I'm sure a little less bleeping will be fine. After all whats life without a few swears and jokes

[@sierratuazon]

The lack of badger jokes is disturbing... Great video! Definitely another race to consider!

[@Rookzer0]

thank you!

[@Guuuun_]

Its all fun and games until you encounter one that likes you a *bit* to much and wants to keep you... until further notice.

[@ironkeepgaming1936]

I would be a Myconid that is a Hallucinatory Mushroom

[@thedamnritters2861]

I have been waiting for this for a long time

[@Rookzer0]

Sooooooon

[@esbeng.s.a9761]

You could also play as a humon who has been taken over by a parasitit mushroom and as the game go on you become more and more mushroomi as you digist the humon alive

[@Rookzer0]

What ability would you get as a mushroom parasite. Or would this just be a variant human subrace?

[@esbeng.s.a9761]

@@Rookzer0 You start off with the racial trait and loses them as you become more mushroom I could see an aura of spores that made people more friendly toward you (effect of a friend spell, maybe at higher lvl it removes the targets ability to know it was you) You could also get to roll a d8 when you take a short rest, as it wasn't your real body who took damage (this scales like cantrips damage) when you have eating your host will you get the ability to infest another creator with your spores

[@tomarmadiyer2698]

Cosmic horror mycelial thing. This single episode has so much algorithm crossover. That I've not found the channel until now upsets me.

[@tomarmadiyer2698]

The art is so enjoyable

[@Mammon997]

your content is really engaging, so smooth it almost goes by too fast

[@Rookzer0]

I'm glad to hear you enjoy it!

[@Mister_Cy]

I love all of these different why you should play character/creatures videos you make

[@Rookzer0]

Good to hear!

[@gaelofariandel6747]

Me & my DM always take homebrew to be simple & revolve around something that already exists to keep it balanced. My homebrew Myconid was taking the Hill Dwarf, scrapping the axe/hammer proficiency & heavy armor bonuses & replacing them with the rapport spores ability all Myconids have equal to 1/2 my proficiency score (rounded up) per long rest as well as moving movement speed & height to that of normal humanoids. I know giving up 2 features (technically 3) for just one (technically 2) seems underwhelming, but Rapport Spores can be DAMN useful if you know what you're doing & it guarantees you won't be overpowered compared to the rest of your team right at the beginning of character creation. You still have bonus health, poison resistance, advantage on poisoned saves, a fair distance in darkvision & a +2/+1 to Constitution/Wisdom so all in all you're keeping everything you would NEED to roleplay a Myconid & still have scaling in player levels. Mid to front line tank? Done. Druid or even Cleric? Done. Out of combat utility? Done.

[@Rookzer0]

Sounds like a nice and easy way to do it. I do like the rapport spores. Really unique idea for playstyles I'd done correctly. Nice job

[@apollyon1987]

I have wanted this for a long time

[@Rookzer0]

enjoy!

[@apollyon1987]

@@Rookzer0 thanks

[@coma2726]

I always had the idea of Myconids getting along with spores druids, the spores druids spread the spores of the myconids around new areas as long as they don't grow to much to fast and the myconids help newer spores druids train their powers and help the spores druids by making them armor and weapons of mushroom. I don't really care if this would be in canon in any world but it's a fun thought.

[@mme.veronica735]

I think limiting your telepathy to a more cinematic experience could be very interesting if your group is up to that roleplay. Here's an example, you found an enemy to the west of your camp you might explain that through the ideas of a snarling wolf and the setting sun. It seems difficult but so evocative that I'd want to roleplay it ay least once

[@mrshowell6151]

oh yeah , I am a bird!

[@evanallaire2829]

Wait, so just going outside can kill them, CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

[@Rookzer0]

They do like their cool damp places

[@esbeng.s.a9761]

I would most likely make them cute so that when citys finds them, they will take them in as pets or mascots, and then over hundrets of years they would have spred and covered the whole city, then kill all the residents and uses them as compost just to do it again in some years

[@Rookzer0]

Infestation of mushroom doggo

[@jackkyle8414]

Fuck yea, I love Myconids!!

[@Rookzer0]

Woo!

[@slongo702]

You need to do these more often man. Love these videos

[@kingmasterlord]

0:18 yeah but like their nervous system is mycelium instead of neurons and shit

[@shmee123ful]

ive being waiting for this one. ive being short of half creating a genic fan made fanticy world in my head for a while and one of the factions were going to made up of elemental/ plant based life so this is great inspirations

[@Rookzer0]

that sounds like a really fun idea. let me know how it goes

[@virgilgaming2205]

I loved this video so much great art and it has inspired me to try too make my own

[@Rookzer0]

I'm so glad to hear it!

[@Werebat]

“Softers”: “We are Juffo-Wupp, and you are non.”

[@Rookzer0]

"juffo-Wupp is the hot light in the darkness"

[@Timetraveler2411]

I don’t know much about this race and got most of my info from this video but, what about a colony of myconids that got whipped out and just left one left, so you don’t have to deal with all the hive mind shared conciseness stuff

[@Rookzer0]

sounds like a good backstory. They don't nessisarly have a hive mind as it's limitation is distance based on their spoors but they do enjoy "melding"

[@Timetraveler2411]

@@Rookzer0 thanks, I’m going to go do some more research I have a good character idea now :) *thanks*

[@nichlasbundgaard5583]

If someone really want's to play a fun-guy but aren't allowed to be one as just a race, then i can imagine a great old one warlock could fit the bill rather well. (yes i know spore druid exist) all of it's abilities could easily be converted to fit your needs. Awakened Mind could be you communicating through spores. Entropic ward could easily be that you shoot out a small spore cloud to give your enemy disadvatage on that attack. Thought Shield... magical spores? Create Thrall, this one is the easiest, some mushrom spores can control insects so that was easy. Now, i'm new to dnd but i'll give it a go to come up with something. The veiled lady they call her, tall, willowy, with a greenish brown hat and a nettet veil that covers her from her shoulders to her angles. She sees no one as she has no eyes, she speaks no words as she has no mouth and yet through the soil she feasts and through her spores she speaks. Long have i traveled with her and she speaks to me and only me, or so i thought as my other companions to heard her voice. Foes would often choke in her spores as she mercilessly struck back at her suffering opponent. One foe lived.. she kneeled down to him, none of us saw what she was doing but when she got back up again, shockingly so did our foe seemingly unharmed but calm, collected and without a will to fight anymore. She pointed towards the nearby woods and our foe, known as Fabian spoke as if he was talking to royalty, "yes my queen, i shall gather wood for your companions fire" and that's where we realised that Fabian was under her control. Long have i traveled with her, long have i feared her... long have i wished for our paths to split, and to start life a new. I've seen many monsters and i rather fight a dragon unarmed than fight the veiled lady, for i can see the hatred, the fear and the fury in a dragon, i can hear its mighty roar and gruff voice. The veiled lady however.. there is no face, there is no sound unless she wishes for you to hear and there is no telling if she already won. Check out the veiled lady mushroom to get a visual idea about the character. Sorry if this isn't from the perspective from the warlock itself, but i hope anyone who read it enjoyed it. And sorry if there are any grammatical errors.

[@Rookzer0]

Really cool short story. Well worded and paints a very nice picture of the character. Keep up the good work and thanks for sharing

[@nichlasbundgaard5583]

@@Rookzer0 Thank you, it means a lot to me. Please keep up sparking ideas like mine with your videos, it's really great to see.

[@13divines]

i love your videos so much ahhhhh

[@Rookzer0]

Thanks you!

[@Rookzer0]

Thank you!*

[@hellbin]

Badger...badger...badger...

[@Rookzer0]

HOW DID I NOT ADD THIS!>>!>!!?!?!?! now i have to redo the video

[@littlechicken3338]

I’m going to take part in a campaign in which I play a 10 ft tall Minotaur barbarian, ( yes, I asked my dM if I could be a large creature and he said yes! :D ) for a backstory: I’m the Minotaur from the mythology, after I got killed the gods snapped me back to kinda make fun of me and after that they just dropped me back to the plains, 1 of the other party members found me and kinda adopted me. Although my Minotaur is stupid as they come he knows that the party are his friends and will do anything to protect them ( since they were the first other beings that actually cares about him ) does this sound good for a character?

[@Rookzer0]

Sounds like a solid character back story to me. Minotaur barbarian is always a good choice... unless your BBEG is like the owner of a fine china shop... >.> then again maybe that's the perfect BBEG

[@VsevolodTheTabletopCrafter]

Oh i so much like them! That's why i make mini squad of forest shroomguys🤩

[@andresmarrero8666]

I say that the exact form depends entirely on the intention behind its creation. If it is a combat form then it would probably look quite bizarre as efficiency in neutraizing and dispatching threats is emphasized, but a form for communicating with other lifeforms will probably be quite a general one composed of all the shared traits observed in the other races. That being said now I am imagining a Myconid Artificer that was made for diplomacy but due to an unfortunate interaction with gaint magic became permanently enlarged and now has to act through her creations for practicality's sake.

[@HODemon-fb7cq]

How about you try this race out. www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Ogrillon_(5e_Race) This race is especially good when you're going for the athletic build like gladiator

[@vestige2540]

After reading the lore into Myconids, i discovered that dwarves eat them. Apparently they are a delicacy, there was a dwarven cook who made Myconid pies and they would go 500 gold a pie. So a funny idea for my Myconid character would be having them have a street urchin background. "Stuck in a dwarven city, making my way to the surface fleeing from short, stouty, impressively bearded men (and women) with white coats and tall puffy hats, holding metal pans and knives whilst searching for rich nutrient dirt in a labyrinth of stone and metal. In here i knew i couldn't trust anyone, they always kept saying i was 'delicious' though i have no idea what that means"

[@disgruntledbob2812]

Questioningly saying Spaghetti is the best way to end any video

[@jason_blunder7404]

Monk seems like the best. Cloaked all the time, use sign language to speak to those you're not linked to. A small group that is very intelligent in a big city that can be looked for as an optional muticlass.

[@Rookzer0]

Could be a lot of fun. An rogue would be mechanically powerful but not thematically right in my mind.

[@lucaricciardi8253]

Love them!!!!!

[@FlaminTubbyToast]

I feel like this barely cover the myconids. Specifically what exactly is the myconid. Like are you the fruiting body? Or the mycelium that is decomposing a body. Furthermore, Are the spores infectious? When players interact with myconid players, do they slowly become miconids? What does that look like? That there is an interesting adventure

[@trevorkett1655]

"You should play" Illithids?? They aren't all bad!

[@Rookzer0]

It's definitely on the list!

[@17joren]

Hey I’m about to run a short underdark adventure and a player wants to do myconid! I found a pdf that makes literally everything in the monster manual a playable race, including shroom bois that seem pretty balanced, but I appreciate the length you went here. The odd thing is that they only allow rapport spores once per short rest. I’m guessing to balance the fact you can communicate with almost anything, but just once is a little brutal. Do you think a number of time = con mod or prof bonus is more fair though?

[@Rookzer0]

I think that could work. I'd say it would be more fun to use it all the time. But it will be more work for you as the dm to balance and keep fair. Try the con mod out and change as need be.

[@Rookzer0]

Or maybe number of creatures per con mod/long rest?

[@17joren]

@@Rookzer0 thanks for the feedback! do you mean with the second suggestion “communicate with # of creatures = con mod, once per LR?” The author’s justification for once per rest was because it’s basically like having Rary’s telepathic bond, a 5th level spell. I agree that it would be fun to not be limited with # times, so I’m considering even giving them basic telepathy like GOO so it’s only 2-way comms, rather than being a hotspot for everything in 20ft.

[@mi.Dalton]

Centaurs! Who cares about climbing walls! Let me know when your clopping through a dungeon!