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 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 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.
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.
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
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!
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!
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.
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.
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
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 played a myconid wizard for a oneshot a while ago. Her familiar was a big spider, the size of a hand, which rode around on top of her head, and which she treated like a pet. Unfortunately, she couldn’t talk to it like people do to pets, since it’s intelligence score was too low to understand her, and unlike with actual speech, you can’t use telepathy to talk to things that can’t understand you. That led to a weird situation when the spider got hurt, and she had to ask somebody else to comfort her spider for her, because she couldn’t talk to it since it couldn’t understand her, but of course it wouldn’t be able to understand anyone else either, since it has the intelligence of a spider, and she knew that, but she just felt bad about it being hurt and was being irrational in the same way all pet owners are when they talk to their pets. Nobody agreed to comfort the spider.
She was really great at avoiding combat. Like, two guards approached us, and I used the hallucination spores ability on one of the guards (technically normal myconids shouldn’t have that, but it was a oneshot, and one person was straight up playing sans from undertale, and my brother was playing an inkling from splatoon. Nobody really cared.) and I cast “sleep” on the other. That meant that not only did we avoid combat, but when guard’s superiors saw them, one asleep and the other tripping balls, they thought they had been doing drugs, so they got in trouble instead of us.
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.
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
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
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.
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. 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
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.
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.
*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?
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
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
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
"...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.
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 imagine Flumps and Mycinoids hanging out together, playing a friendly game of poker while getting high.
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.
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.
Damn boi you're pumping these things out so fast
appreciated, all of these are awesome
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
2 videos within a week?
Runesmith, you're spoiling us!
* 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
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!
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
“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.
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.
"All of these... feelings! Just be hungry or dead!" -- Chromagil, 2019 (TFS at the Table)
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
*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
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
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
"So many complex emotions...Why cant you just be Hungry or Dead?"
"To think not as individuals, but as a network of their combined hopes and dreams" I cried one solitary tear over this.
I met a mycanid once...
What a fungi
Nice
"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
Myconids are the powerhouses of the cell
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
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
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'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!
Fun fact : irl mushrooms are closer to animals than they are to plants
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?
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.
Give me a playable race of Myconids right now
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 literally just the friendly neighborhood stoners of the underdark.
I never thought that the Mushroom Instrumentality Project could go so unnoticed for all this time
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.
In Dork Souls I made the mistake of not treating one with respect and, boy, was it a mistake
Get send to the moon?
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.
Yes I like Vampire, wait wrong video.
Internet explorer, is that you?
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
Hope you're not working too hard there, Logan. Keep on being awesome!
Why are they so wholesome? They're like dogs cus they are so pure
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 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!?
so this is where the punchy mushrooms came from in Dark Souls. The universal good boys.
I played a myconid wizard for a oneshot a while ago. Her familiar was a big spider, the size of a hand, which rode around on top of her head, and which she treated like a pet.
Unfortunately, she couldn’t talk to it like people do to pets, since it’s intelligence score was too low to understand her, and unlike with actual speech, you can’t use telepathy to talk to things that can’t understand you. That led to a weird situation when the spider got hurt, and she had to ask somebody else to comfort her spider for her, because she couldn’t talk to it since it couldn’t understand her, but of course it wouldn’t be able to understand anyone else either, since it has the intelligence of a spider, and she knew that, but she just felt bad about it being hurt and was being irrational in the same way all pet owners are when they talk to their pets.
Nobody agreed to comfort the spider.
She was really great at avoiding combat. Like, two guards approached us, and I used the hallucination spores ability on one of the guards (technically normal myconids shouldn’t have that, but it was a oneshot, and one person was straight up playing sans from undertale, and my brother was playing an inkling from splatoon. Nobody really cared.) and I cast “sleep” on the other. That meant that not only did we avoid combat, but when guard’s superiors saw them, one asleep and the other tripping balls, they thought they had been doing drugs, so they got in trouble instead of us.
Instead of writing in her spellbook, the pages were infused with different scents to convey information. She called it her smellbook.
I just got world anvil, and its all thanks to you. Also, your like, my new favorite youtuber
"Thank you, adventurer! But your princess is in another dungeon!"
Meet my friend, the fungal Druid. He’s a pretty... fun person.
wait
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.
Based on the intro: Runesmith is the Big Dumb confirmed
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.
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!
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
They are labeled as such in the monster manual
This is my favorite idea for a species since ever. I have no idea why I like them so much!
I'm so glad I don't like eating mushrooms because of this.
I love your videos exceptional word with your casual explanations and funny banter
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
_~drums, guitar riff~_
*THE KOMBUCHA*
*MUSHROOM PEOPLE*
*SITTING AROUND ALL DAY!*
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?
Heck, I'd befriend one just by the simple fact of getting my grub on fancy *huitlacoche.*
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!
Good sir you have convinced me to write them into my campaign
"Being one of the few plants to grow their own arms and legs"
plants? PLANTS?! Mushrooms are FUNGI, not PLANTS!
Omg, sprouts are the little cone-head dudes from Little Nightmares.
1:39 Mushrooms are not plants.
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.
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
Your patron list reminds me of the Monte Python and the Holy Grail's opening credits.
Mynd you, moose bites Kan be pretti nasti.
Basicly Modrons, please?
Nah, we got basically mechanus tho
Light, I've adored Myconids since AD&D 2.0. Can't get cuter than these.
Myc0nids are the best! No I am not a SpOrE SeRvAnT
This series is what keeps me going.
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.
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
Mushrooms aren't plants.
I want these to be a playable race so bad
then do it.
Everything can be a playable race if you're brave enough.
Wyrms pull bugs into their thrall,
Till ages pass and kingdoms fall,
Caps and shells may fall to dust,
But Mr Mushroom readjusts
"Now about those mushrooms."
I don't know how you transition so damn smoothly
Reminds me of how out of place flumphs are in the underdark too
I played a Myconoid who served Pelor, let me tell you it was more hilarious than I thought
Literally just played a campaign about myconids and this video comes in my recommended
... you DO know that you have forced me to make chillaxed mushroom dudes now, right? XD
Ahahahahaha "because thats basically what mushroom people do". Loved the "True facts of" reference, complete with accent. Love your vids bud.
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.
Dude I wanna make a race whos just a giant pile of myconids who are all just in one consciousness
Take a look at the Ghoran from Pathfinder, might be a useful basis for them :3
One d&d series I've watch actually had one of the players play a myconid named chromagil. Though I think that was manly homebrew.
I'm not even sure if it's officially playable or if its like the Mock, since Zito has a passion for making monster races playable.
I'm so happy you also love myconids. They're my absolute favorite.
dude your timing is insane I was just researching Myconids for my world
That 1d4 -1 damage of the baby might be the cutest thing i have ever seen
I love these videos, they're like the true facts series but also useful for playing tabletops