Dungeons and Dragons Lore: Myconid

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.

[anthonyhernandez]

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

[chrisphillips]

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."

[PresbyterianPaladin]

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!

[thefox]

You try to communicate with the Myconid, but it ignores you and tries to meld with your athletes feet.

[nathankelley]

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.
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[miniman]

"Fondness for Fungus" should be a Grateful Dead cover band name.

[tatsusama]

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!

[davidfletcher]

The Mushroom People at 3:45 are from Dark Souls 3

[RayJackson]

Your wealth of knowledge and experience really show what a fungi you are!

[phill-ezhd]

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!

[Im-Not-a-Dog]

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.

[GeraldBlack]

As à fellow biologist I can appreciate what you do, and love it

[GrimgoreIronhide]

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.

[mudshrooze]

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

[alexriley]

Love the videos would love to see one on Vegepygmy aka Mold Folk.

[ryanulrich]

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.

[MisterTutor]

So a third of the time, Myconids are magic mushrooms :)

[DuskyPredator]

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.

[dieterfrank]

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. :)

[PlanetLuthian]

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.