I had the idea of a necromancer archdruid who was an "undead lord" along an mummy, vampire, lich and death tyrant. The spore servant template is perfect for this
I'm going to use this. I'll make the player think he's being taken over by an incurable fungal infection and then one night he wakes up to find a little mushroom baby in his bed and no more infection.
I've yet to find a DM who will let me play a wandering Myconid Samurai. He travels far and wide in search of his master. No brigands or monsters will stand in his way. His name is Musashi Shiitake.
I have one of these bad boys a familiar . during our first session ( joining a campaign in progress so I'm level 6 ) I cast dragons breath on the little guy so he could fight from my dragonborns head. he ended the first combat with a total of 2 water elemental kills ( highest kill count of the session ) earned a title from the ships captain , and stole a dagger from a table no one was using . he was a instant hit for the DM and the table group . so picture a 1 foot tall mushroom guy with a big hat to protect him from the sun , ridding around on a dragonborns head.
It symbolizes my inner pain. It symbolizes my inner torment, trapped here by my hyphae. My struggle to pull away. My struggle to escape. But alas, to no avail. If only I could see the world above. But even if the barrier was open, how would I leave...? It means you've lived a life of sin. It means...Don't talk to me. It symbolizes my unbridled happiness. The government told me they are willing to transplant me outside! Why didn't you smile at my dance?
Well, the MM says they provide shelter, so food probably wouldn't be too unreasonable as long as you explained what you needed. I imagine what adventurers eat and what myconids eat are very different.
"Being one of the few plants to grow there own arms and legs" "Mushrooms are fungi, and are usually placed in a Kingdom of their own apart from plants and animals. Mushrooms contain no chlorophyll and most are considered saprophytes. That is, they obtain their nutrition from metabolizing non living organic matter."-Google
I absolutely love the idea of myconids, and I think my fascination with them started with the Truffle in Terraria. I didn't know D&D had such creatures until after I started making a homebrew version for the gurps system so whoops
for my upcoming arc, I'm having my party deal with a collective of Myconids that have had a divine entity accidentally instill their Sovereign with a powerful sense of individuality, thus throwing their entire social order and ecosystem into disarray and turning their whole cave into what is essentially an eternally bumpin night club lit by mushroom strobelights and filled with weird organic house music. it's gonna be fuuuuun!
frustratingly, they occupy the same monster category as plants in DnD. it makes more sense when you consider that they generally share most of the same strengths, weaknesses, and thematic elements
A single spore lands, finds nourishment in decay and attains maturity.. In turn it exhales a cloud of life, a thousand spores land... so progresses Juffo-Wup.
I've been doing research for my recent Underdark crafting videos, diving into biology and ecology, homebrewing my own myconids and fungal ecosystem. Amidst all the serious science stuff, this funny video was a nice breath of fresh air ...or mushroom fart-filled air? Love your style: funny, but substantive.Keep up the awesome videos!
Myconids can feel the pain of every stuffed or sautéed mushroom you've ever eaten. If I meet my end at the hands of the Myconid species it will have been worth it for the lifetime of flavour wonderment mushrooms have added to my life.
Myconids are classified as plants under D&D's monster classification, though. Probably because they function more or less like the other various "walking plant" monsters.
Dude i love them they are so chill In Out of the Abyss it goes into there work a bit more, each circle is dedicated to one thing, like hunting, exploring, farming, etc. So basically they form circles to handle tasks in and around there colonies
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Very cute. I grow shiitake and portobello mushrooms as a bit of an hobby, and I can attest, they're quite friendly. XD Now I want to homebrew a PC Myconid. No idea how I'd do that, but the concept is just too adorable not to consider.
I came back to this video because your Basically series helped create my story for a campaign. Also I love these mushroom boys so much that I made Drow love them as well and trade with them peacefully in most cities. Also Keptolo's followers adore them cause shrooms. Like, who can hurt these nice little fellas!?
Gotta love any video that plays thatched villagers as background music. The only problem is, is that I need to watch the video all over again and actually listen this time.
I played in a campaign last year where the dm let me homebrew what I thought was a mushroom thallid. I was new and had no idea myconids existed. But she was essentially exactly this.
The second half of Team Fourstar's D&D campaign features a Myconid PC named Chromagill, because of his colorful gills. He was an audience favorite very quickly. "Civilization is so complicated. Why can't you just be hungry or dead?"
Dude. Perfect timing. Totally using these guys in my variant of Ghosts of Saltmarsh. I finally bought Monster Manual, found these guys and fell in love with the concept. Awesome NPC potential
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DND version: we’re so friendly in this horrible land
Dark Souls version: DON’T TALK TO ME OR MY SON AGAIN
Dark Souls version: Approaches, gets socked in the jaw
To be fair, the little ones don’t hurt people
@@Garl_Vinland they try so hard tho..
@@defensivekobra3873 they just chase you if I remember correctly
Yeah, but when they stumble and fall over they can damage you.
I played a spores druid adopted by a family of myconids and I love them so much
Donut Illuminati I had a player who was using a homebrew race to play a myconid druid
@@marshbordeaux4210 nice
I’ve always wanted to play a Circle of Spores Druid
I had the idea of a necromancer archdruid who was an "undead lord" along an mummy, vampire, lich and death tyrant. The spore servant template is perfect for this
Also perfect fit since both druids and fungi act in "circles"
Man talks about mushrooms nutting everywhere for 5 minutes
Thanks for the summary
Sounds like a good porno
Myconids: drugs, love, and "love"
well thats what mushrooms always do
Oh yeah the mushroom's own nut gets them high
*The last thing you would want on your underdark encounter is sentient foot fungus, but it turns out that might be what you get.*
I'm going to use this. I'll make the player think he's being taken over by an incurable fungal infection and then one night he wakes up to find a little mushroom baby in his bed and no more infection.
Joseph Stalin And if they hurt the previous thing, they go to gulag, right?
The thing is, well,
I kinda wanna be one-
@@BigDictator5335 can the player request child support?
they keep their numbers in check because there isn't mushroom down in the underdark
This. ^
Lol
I hate you
Fuck you. Take my like.
To the guilotine with you
"...entranced by copious amounts of plant jizz in the air..."
A sentence I didn't know my life was missing until I heard it.
Fungi aren't plants :)
@@phelps6205
They fuck kinda like plants tho
@@phelps6205 The "plant" monster type in D&D includes things that aren't plants in the real world, like fungi.
Well we dont think about it but plants spread their jizz all the time in the spring.
@@rorrim0 And we have to breathe that stuff! Eww...
Also, I just noticed this is Runesmith's 69th video.
Morale of the story:
*Shrooms will always be your best friends.*
As long as you don't try to eat them, they don't like it when you do that
more like Morel of the story 🙃🍄
Dark Souls says otherwise
Ah yes, I’m the 420th like
1:39 Actually, fungi are more closely related to animals than plants, so this really isn't as much of a stretch as it seems.
Curious
GREENSKINS?
CountKibblesNBits HERESY!
Thank you for saying it. My inner biologist was screaming this into the void.
@@9Flatline As was my outer biologist into you, my acquaintance.
Myconids, aka the hippie commune of the Underdark. I dig it.
I thought that was flumphs 🤔
The most edgiest thing in the under dark. Something that wants to be your friend.
@@tonydanatop4912 Flumphs are like squares. The type of person, not the shape. They like to help. Brains or no.
@@dolphinboi-playmonsterranc9668
oh fair
their equivalent of canibalism is smocking another myconid
I've yet to find a DM who will let me play a wandering Myconid Samurai.
He travels far and wide in search of his master.
No brigands or monsters will stand in his way. His name is
Musashi Shiitake.
any luck on your quest to let your mushroom baby go on his quest?
@@anthonyrodriguez8788
Sadly no, so far everyone I talked to about it said i wasn't allowed to play a Myconid. Shame.
@@TheXell ur dms are lame
Little late but sorry about that crap dm move. Got a home brew myconid druid player in group as we speak. Best wishes
I have one of these bad boys a familiar . during our first session ( joining a campaign in progress so I'm level 6 ) I cast dragons breath on the little guy so he could fight from my dragonborns head. he ended the first combat with a total of 2 water elemental kills ( highest kill count of the session ) earned a title from the ships captain , and stole a dagger from a table no one was using . he was a instant hit for the DM and the table group . so picture a 1 foot tall mushroom guy with a big hat to protect him from the sun , ridding around on a dragonborns head.
Sanguinius on vacation I like to think about this. I will think about this when I’m sad. :)
@@enderwalkgang nice
Commander Mango his name is Spore " of the Northern wind " and we all love him .
Man it’s gonna be a rough session when he gets stomped on by a storm giant or something
Monkers he's a foot tall, he could get stomped on by the village drunk.
I imagine Flumps and Mycinoids hanging out together, playing a friendly game of poker while getting high.
Damn boi you're pumping these things out so fast
appreciated, all of these are awesome
* Mushroom Dance
* Mushroom Dance
* Whatever could it mean?
It symbolizes my inner pain.
It symbolizes my inner torment, trapped here by my hyphae. My struggle to pull away. My struggle to escape. But alas, to no avail. If only I could see the world above. But even if the barrier was open, how would I leave...?
It means you've lived a life of sin.
It means...Don't talk to me.
It symbolizes my unbridled happiness. The government told me they are willing to transplant me outside! Why didn't you smile at my dance?
It means you've lived a life of SIN
2 videos within a week?
Runesmith, you're spoiling us!
Me:*sees all the drug references* uh oh this isn’t gonna be advertiser friendly.
And this is why we have Patreon
He also dropped an F-Bomb. Demonitized!
Runesmith: Myconids.
Me, an intellectual: NUTTROOMS.
1:43 - "Being one of the few *plants* to grow arms and legs"
Bruh.
They're classified as plants in d&d.
@@tyleremery7088 And that because the writers have no fucking clue what fungi are.
Fungi are plants
@@damobeck1 no...?
@@damobeck1 they're more closely related to animals than plants.
Well these are some pretty *Fun guys*
Why
you know what you did and you deserve this dislike.
What an absolute *shit take* of a pun. Begone, the power of moldy jizz compels you!
@@scripted_valor i cannot see any dislikes on this comment, ether it wont show up on my phone, you lied or you changed your mind
@@defensivekobra3873 or dislikes don't appear in general
*watches further*
Oh, maybe should have chosen to insert fart joke. Nice.
Get high on farts, you stupid square. All the cool kids are doing it.
“high on shrooms”
High on jizz
“Most kind and welcoming creature in the underdark” You forgot the flumph
everyone forgets the flumph. too many people forget the flumph.
the flumphs are lonely.
Bless your tired soul for all this fast paced good content
I thought this was going to be a dark souls joke. But it was wholesome instead
I LOVE the concept of friendly mushroom people! Do they have snacks for their guests?
Well, the MM says they provide shelter, so food probably wouldn't be too unreasonable as long as you explained what you needed. I imagine what adventurers eat and what myconids eat are very different.
They do, depending on your definition of food.
That made me think of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Friendly mushroom!
@@devin5201 Oh, I eat pan-fried Portobellos with boiled Chanterelle Mush... nah, I'm already eaten.
@@josiahklein70 MuShY JoY iN fRiEnD
Can’t wait for basically dragons
imagine
Imagine dragons? Inconceivable.
Try watching the "What the don't tell you about _____" series by MrRhexx. It's like this, but less funny and has more dragons.
Followed, naturally, by Basically Dungeons
That moment when the Toads from Mario start rebelling against peach and go to the world of Dungoens and Dragons
Only to blast each other with clouds of plant jizz
"Being one of the few plants to grow there own arms and legs"
"Mushrooms are fungi, and are usually placed in a Kingdom of their own apart from plants and animals. Mushrooms contain no chlorophyll and most are considered saprophytes. That is, they obtain their nutrition from metabolizing non living organic matter."-Google
"All of these... feelings! Just be hungry or dead!" -- Chromagil, 2019 (TFS at the Table)
My character is a pacifist, I think he is secretly a myconids
Suburban Hero one of my players in a past campaign was a pacifist myconid
That is amazing....
I met a mycanid once...
What a fungi
Nice
Fun fact : irl mushrooms are closer to animals than they are to plants
"To think not as individuals, but as a network of their combined hopes and dreams" I cried one solitary tear over this.
Myconids are the powerhouses of the cell
Myconids are literally just the friendly neighborhood stoners of the underdark.
So they want Instrumentality...
I mean, the concept isn't a bad one! The big problem is the people taking really underhanded evil actions to accomplish it.
@@Technodreamer and i doubt these guys are going to be not high enough to formulate a plan to do this beyond their group.
Myconids are just the D&D world's version of stoners. Just want to be left alone and get immensely baked with all their stoner friends.
I absolutely love the idea of myconids, and I think my fascination with them started with the Truffle in Terraria.
I didn't know D&D had such creatures until after I started making a homebrew version for the gurps system so
whoops
for my upcoming arc, I'm having my party deal with a collective of Myconids that have had a divine entity accidentally instill their Sovereign with a powerful sense of individuality, thus throwing their entire social order and ecosystem into disarray and turning their whole cave into what is essentially an eternally bumpin night club lit by mushroom strobelights and filled with weird organic house music.
it's gonna be fuuuuun!
A Myconid rave sounds awesome!
How did that go?
mushrooms aRE NOT PLANTS GODDAMNIT
Yeah, they’re really fun guys.
frustratingly, they occupy the same monster category as plants in DnD. it makes more sense when you consider that they generally share most of the same strengths, weaknesses, and thematic elements
theyre more closely related to animals, even!
Yes I like Vampire, wait wrong video.
Internet explorer, is that you?
A single spore lands, finds nourishment in decay and attains maturity..
In turn it exhales a cloud of life, a thousand spores land... so progresses Juffo-Wup.
In Dork Souls I made the mistake of not treating one with respect and, boy, was it a mistake
Get send to the moon?
As the giant fungal growth shambles up to you, leaving behind a storm of spores, you hear one thing.
HELLO!
I feel bad now. I killed a bunch of these things in hollowknight
eh, they got infected. They had it coming.
@Alek Mikolainis yeah man, the small ones, too 😭
@@ShannonBlake444 hey man, the Hunter says they're delicious. I feel bad but I got a journal to fill
@@strionic770 but then the hunter would of been dissapointed.
I've been doing research for my recent Underdark crafting videos, diving into biology and ecology, homebrewing my own myconids and fungal ecosystem. Amidst all the serious science stuff, this funny video was a nice breath of fresh air ...or mushroom fart-filled air? Love your style: funny, but substantive.Keep up the awesome videos!
so this is where the punchy mushrooms came from in Dark Souls. The universal good boys.
"So many complex emotions...Why cant you just be Hungry or Dead?"
Meet my friend, the fungal Druid. He’s a pretty... fun person.
wait
Why are they so wholesome? They're like dogs cus they are so pure
Based on the intro: Runesmith is the Big Dumb confirmed
Myconids can feel the pain of every stuffed or sautéed mushroom you've ever eaten.
If I meet my end at the hands of the Myconid species it will have been worth it for the lifetime of flavour wonderment mushrooms have added to my life.
Hope you're not working too hard there, Logan. Keep on being awesome!
"Thank you, adventurer! But your princess is in another dungeon!"
I never thought that the Mushroom Instrumentality Project could go so unnoticed for all this time
Heck, I'd befriend one just by the simple fact of getting my grub on fancy *huitlacoche.*
I'm so glad I don't like eating mushrooms because of this.
_~drums, guitar riff~_
*THE KOMBUCHA*
*MUSHROOM PEOPLE*
*SITTING AROUND ALL DAY!*
>Being one of the few plants to grow their own arms and legs
>plants
They are labeled as such in the monster manual
I just got world anvil, and its all thanks to you. Also, your like, my new favorite youtuber
0:06 if you haven't caught on i have a very low iq
1:40 *calls mushrooms plants*
SliceThePi they are plants.
@@damobeck1 they're fungi, which are closer to animals than plants
@@pumpkonking733 Wait... so are they vegan?
Ah yes, Chromagil from TFS at the table.
Just be hungry or dead!-- The High Sovereign Chromagil.
I have a friend who likes Myconids...
He's a pretty fungi.
This video helped me add more character to my myconid girl and gave me some pretty good ideas. Thanks Runesmith!
MUSHROOMS ARE NOT PLANTS, FUNGI ARE SEPARATE FROM PLANTS, REEEEEEEEE
Okay, got it out of my system
Myconids are classified as plants under D&D's monster classification, though. Probably because they function more or less like the other various "walking plant" monsters.
@@misterbadguy7325 Gaaah, it bothers meee. I mean makes sense I guess, wish there was a more universal word to use.
You’re not alone. This is a horrendous butchering of our biological classification system.
@@misterbadguy7325 and because making a whole other monster type for a single monter would be preety redundant
Dude i love them they are so chill
In Out of the Abyss it goes into there work a bit more, each circle is dedicated to one thing, like hunting, exploring, farming, etc. So basically they form circles to handle tasks in and around there colonies
In the thoughts of Chromagil: neat!
i literally bought their highest subscription and ive been using it for days, i love em and im dead ass glad i saw ur videos adverting them, as its only cause of those that i decided to give it a try
"Being one of the few plants to grow their own arms and legs"
plants? PLANTS?! Mushrooms are FUNGI, not PLANTS!
Wyrms pull bugs into their thrall,
Till ages pass and kingdoms fall,
Caps and shells may fall to dust,
But Mr Mushroom readjusts
I just want to make a hombrew character of these bois. Though it wouldn’t make much sense since well
Underdark
Fungus can live anywhere as long as they have water and wastes to digest. So they can totally live outside of the underdark.
The bigger problem is their innate pacifism. Sure, you can make a pacifist character, but you probably are not going to have a lot of fun doing so
Everybody gangsta till the mushrooms start walking
Mushrooms aren't plants.
Basicly Modrons, please?
Nah, we got basically mechanus tho
Your patron list reminds me of the Monte Python and the Holy Grail's opening credits.
Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti.
1:39 Mushrooms are not plants.
Give me a playable race of Myconids right now
You said they are plants, fungus are not related to plants. Someone skipped biology classes to play d&d.
You mean you didn't? NERD!
They're labeled plants in the Monster Manual. Someone skipped Biology to MAKE d&d.
I played a Myconoid who served Pelor, let me tell you it was more hilarious than I thought
Myc0nids are the best! No I am not a SpOrE SeRvAnT
Light, I've adored Myconids since AD&D 2.0. Can't get cuter than these.
Good sir you have convinced me to write them into my campaign
... you DO know that you have forced me to make chillaxed mushroom dudes now, right? XD
Very cute. I grow shiitake and portobello mushrooms as a bit of an hobby, and I can attest, they're quite friendly. XD
Now I want to homebrew a PC Myconid. No idea how I'd do that, but the concept is just too adorable not to consider.
I came back to this video because your Basically series helped create my story for a campaign. Also I love these mushroom boys so much that I made Drow love them as well and trade with them peacefully in most cities. Also Keptolo's followers adore them cause shrooms. Like, who can hurt these nice little fellas!?
I love your videos exceptional word with your casual explanations and funny banter
The worst thing about the TH-cam adpocolpse is now the Ads are longer, harder to skip, and have the voices of people I like.
Ahahahahaha "because thats basically what mushroom people do". Loved the "True facts of" reference, complete with accent. Love your vids bud.
Five minutes ago I didn't even know the miconoids
Now I would protect them with my life
That 1d4 -1 damage of the baby might be the cutest thing i have ever seen
This series is what keeps me going.
Gotta love any video that plays thatched villagers as background music. The only problem is, is that I need to watch the video all over again and actually listen this time.
Runesmith... never stop doing these, they're like a PSA for us nerds.
I played in a campaign last year where the dm let me homebrew what I thought was a mushroom thallid. I was new and had no idea myconids existed. But she was essentially exactly this.
"Now about those mushrooms."
I don't know how you transition so damn smoothly
The second half of Team Fourstar's D&D campaign features a Myconid PC named Chromagill, because of his colorful gills. He was an audience favorite very quickly.
"Civilization is so complicated. Why can't you just be hungry or dead?"
Wasn't it "all these complex emotions"?
@@BJGvideos yes, you are correct. I didn't check the quote in my excitement.
Dude. Perfect timing. Totally using these guys in my variant of Ghosts of Saltmarsh. I finally bought Monster Manual, found these guys and fell in love with the concept. Awesome NPC potential
This is my favorite idea for a species since ever. I have no idea why I like them so much!
Ok so basically I’m gonna make a campaign where all the important NPCs are mushroom people because I like them now
If reincarnation is a thing I wanna come back as one of these mushroom guys.
They sound pretty chill. I would want a myconid pal.
Save the human princess of the Myconids from the evil Tortle king
Be careful of his dragon breath spell. He's 20th level.