Tauster's Toadstools, or: Mushroom Mayhem

[DnDPaladin]

awesome, but i got a question man...
wheres the gnome ?

[tauster]

Sir Gneld is currently resurrected I guess. And then he'll be on a longer vacation - dying tends to be tiring, so he's a lot on vqacation these days...

Just finished the first spores of the new batch.

[tauster]

I had two unpainted giant styrofoam mushrooms waiting that where identical with this one, and I finally got around to painting them. Not finished yet, but almost. Just a bit of drybrushing.



The first one got some chippings scraping off in the storage box, so this time I added a protective PVA glue layer on top of the spackling. Now it's like plastig and should stand semi-rough handling. Lesson learned.

[tauster]

Finished. Not my favourite mushrooms, but they will do.



They're large enough to have skirmishes, hiding and sneaking-up going on under their caps.

[tauster]

Some games never get old...

Inspired by curufin's post in the Insider Trading thread, I started making some more screamers...



Just to give you an idea how fast this is: The bunch you see in the pic took me about 10 minutes to make. I should have probably opened the window to let the fumes out, but... ah well.

[curufin]

You work quick! Love it!

[tauster]

Texturing took way longer than simply cutting and burning/smelting the straws into shape. The heap below was done in about 1 hour, maybe a little more:

[michka]

Looking lovely, if you like that sort of thing. And who around here doesn't like a nice menacing pile of alien screaming death fungus.
Lady Forscale has worse luck then Kenny from South Park.

[tauster]

I didn't feel like continuing with the screaming straw funghi, but I had the lotus pods in my hands recently and was itching to do something with them again. They look simply too cool to resist.

The inspiration was the Tyranid Brood Pod, which seems to go together with the Capillary Towers:



Hi res version




High res version


The set you see above (an original resin cast, not a scratchbuild) went on ebay for almost 100 EUR... I still have no idea how to replicate the Capillary Towers, but the Brood Pod is simple. In fact, I'm pretty sure they used lotus pods when making the originals and built the remaining structure around it somehow.

I wanted a more tree-like growth, something that fblends in with my large mushrooms. The stem would be made of crumpled aluminum foil (cat food containers are made of very strong foil). For the base I used four poker chips with metal cores. If this seems a bit expensive: It's not - I got a few hundred of the for less than 20 €, so the price per piece is didiculously low.




I don't want the stem to be upright, that would be boring.




And since I'll be using hotglue for additional texture, it's easy to add lots of strings. Funghi and stringy growths love each other, as a certain famous British cook would say.



 


simply put the lotus pod in and blend it in with hotglue. Nothing fancy here.

  

I forgot to take step by step shots during painting, but it was pretty straight forward: Neon green basepaining, a heavy drybrushing with black, then a light drybrushing with grey. About the same color scheme I used with my giant mushroom.

  


And that's where I stand at the moment. I will add some small mushrooms near the base for decoration, but I have no idea what to do with the pod. I want some openings to be closed, and I absolutely love the creature ripping free from it's pod in the 2nd pic of this post... Let's see. Any ideas are welcome!

[SpielMeisterKev!]

Howdy,

  Perhaps a loofa as the basis for the capillary towers?

I thought,
Kev!

[tauster]

Apr 26, 2015 3:13:00 GMT SpielMeisterKev! said:

Howdy,

  Perhaps a loofa as the basis for the capillary towers?

I thought,
Kev!

Never thought of that - thanks a million!

[tauster]

Apr 26, 2015 7:54:59 GMT tauster said:

Apr 26, 2015 3:13:00 GMT SpielMeisterKev! said:

Howdy,

  Perhaps a loofa as the basis for the capillary towers?

I thought,
Kev!

Never thought of that - thanks a million!

Just started the first loofah project. Thanks again for the idea SpielMeisterKev!!

[tauster]

Now that I have lots of Screamers at hand, it's time to play with color schemes a bit. First, Ill use a skin tone and later add a dark brown wash.



I might do another with the same base color and try a dark red wash - sounds like it might look sufficiently gross interesting.

[tauster]

I started keeping aluminum foil from sweets a while ago. These little lumps have the perfect size for mushroom caps.



1-2 cm of hotglue-textured wire glued on, plus a small neodym magnet at the base and you're ready to paint.

[tauster]

Yesterday I found a piece of mushroom goodness that completely, utterly blew my mind. I wasn't aware that there are people out there who are that much dedicated to mushrooms in RPGs that they would go to such lengths churning out ideas.

- 200 musroom descriptions --> I shudder at the thought of crafting each type. And what's worse: I'm not exactly sure what makes me shudder...
- 3x10 properties of mushroooms: 10x useful, 10x physical, 10x weird
- 100 bizarre mushroom properties
- 100 additional crazy fungoid ideas called "Magical mushroom munching mayhem". And boy do they live up to that title.


There is more mushroom-related stuff on this blog. I'm not through with all of them right now, but I'll keep you posted.


elfmaidsandoctopi.blogspot.de/2014/11/mushroom-master-madness.html

This is a post about mushrooms. It can be used for my Underland setting, my typical DnD oldschool Exiles DnD and my planet Psychon DnD. Parts fine for Gammaworld or SF games too. Shroom and fungus forests are fantasy foliage fodder since the earliest versions of the great game. This is a bunch of tables to make your swollen toadstools glisten with glee.

d100 Appearance of your fungus
01 Clean typical white, grey or brown mushroom
02 Tall thin toadstools glistening black cap
03 Short squat and slimy brown
04 Lattice of white structure
05 Spectacular phallus like
06 Red stems split into masses of orange frilled gills
07 Orange sponge like
08 Coral like white fingers reaching up
09 Mass of density packed white stalks with pink caps
10 Tiny purple mushrooms
11 Red star like with stinking hole attracts flying bugs
12 Broad bright yellow cap whith short white stems
13 Glistening metallic and opalescent coloured pointy cap
14 Tall thin with luminescant lantern structure
15 Broad white slimy shroom which glows green or purple
16 Thin stem with large pod covered in jelly filled pits
17 Fragile tall white umbrella of latice
18 Tall glistening translucent glass like mushrooms
19 White spherical clusters
20 Large crown or black sphere
21 Mass of green, purple or yellow lichen like growth with cup shapes where most developed
22 White sphere covered in spiky fingers
23 Thick trunk branches into thousands of glowing green tiny fingers
24 White mass with hard concave black disks where largest
25 Brain like structure in pink, white or violet
26 Coral fungus in white pink or orange with complex structures
27 Tall thin mushroom with dripping black cap
28 Phallus white mushroom dripping white foamy mess
29 Brown spongy brain structures on stalks
30 Mass of translucent slime
31 Jellyfish like mushroom
32 Brilliant blue pixie parasol mushroom
33 Orange peel like mass
34 Pink mass of tendrils
35 Purple liver like growth
36 Red lattice cage fungus structure
37 Orange or purple sphere covered in holes deep into structure
38 Has a brown or black main cap with lattice white frill
39 Squat spherical shroom with lattice webbing over cap
40 Tiny caps on tall thin stalks brilliant scarlet
41 Eerie elegant tapered fingers on hand with lattice frill growing from earth
42 Brown bark like leathery brown half caps growing in mass or from walls or other fungi
43 Clusters of tint thin stalked toadstools in pastel colour variations
44 White concave clusters with gills inside
45 Straggly green dried grass looking growths in clumps
46 Brilliant shiny translucent green cap with white dull stalk
47 White eggs bursting open with fleshy ropey structure with red rings inside
48 Yellow stalk with spherical head of brilliant cyan fingers
49 Large shrooms with concave caps and large white gills underneath
50 Orange skinned on top of cap rest is jet black grow in clusters
51 Black flat discs with brilliant cyan patterns and rough bark like texture
52 Squat stalk with brilliant blue spherical ball cap
53 Large shroom with indigo spots all over and gills, looks rotten
54 Brilliant indigo mushrooms
55 Red translucent huge concave cups on thin white stalks, often full of water
56 Black trumpets erupting from soil in clusters
57 Huge white lilly like trumpets growing up from earth
58 Pink or black fairy helmets growing on thin stalks
59 Clusters of jet black shiny fingers
60 Squat white stalk with tall grey furry cap
61 Clusters of green stalks that widen and terminate in concave cups
62 Crinkly pink mass of rose petal like fungus
63 White stalks with white trumpets with glistening red and orange inside, white rims
64 Amethyst pear shaped caps on thin stalks, beautiful delicate shade
65 Resembles cluster of gems in different colours, rigid skin slime inside
66 Thin twisted white stalks with black spheres on top in clusters
67 Great white crinkly skinned toadstool with blue on top of cap
68 Red flower like growth with long trailing filament, often grow up high in masses
69 Sideways growing shelf fungus hard and woody, white underside brown bark like skin on top
70 Perky grey breast shaped cap with delicate frilly lace around cap and rings of lattice down stalk
71 Orange carrot like growths in mass, happily grow upside down from roof too
72 White stalk growing thicker to red velvet concave cap
73 Crinkly yellow carpet like mass
74 Carpet of thin translucent fingers with yellow, purple, black or green tinge
75 Violet and/or pink coral fungus grows into tall elegant structures
76 Great green scraggly trumpet structure with several smaller trumpets on head, slightly furry appearance
77 Tall thin pink and wite stalks with droopy floral head
78 Squat split caps grow straight from ground orange gills, chocolate caps and glow in dark
79 Twisted purple stalk, thickens at top with bark like skin and great pink-purple cap with dim glow
80 Orange concave caps grow from ground with thick black gills inside cap
81 White stalk with tall grey cap actually a mass of lattice structure up close
82 Bright yellow antler like growths
83 Huge drooping spherical sacs with spots, as matures spots open to deep holes in saggy mass
84 Brilliant orange stalkless flat caps also grow sideways in walls or other fungus
85 Sky blue mushroom with red tinted gills
86 Mass of translucent thread in huge fairy floss like heap
87 Thin pink stalk sagging under weight of huge spongy tall cap
88 Huge brown mushroom with broad cap and yellow gills
89 White bulbous mass with rigid orange bark on top, sweats beads of water under softer underside
90 Tall thin brilliant orange mushrooms with ridges up stalks forming into gills
91 Tall thin mushroom with cap overgrown with hundreds of long thin hairs with black beads on end
92 Many score black threads growing from ground fusing into black or chocolate gelaitinous mass covered in beads of water
93 Carpet of yellow sponge growth
94 White egglike growths, mature ones split with brilliant yellow yolks bursting out
95 Pink spheres grow over area evenly apart
96 Delicate pink fleshy cap with gills with thick white stalk covered in yellow droplets of fluid
97 Porcalain like white shroom with thick stalk and thimble like cap with evenly spaces raised spots
98 Red mass of stinking tentacles connected in bunches at tips when young, with black inside mass
99 Fragile white lattice trumpets made from threadlike mas with loose threads hanging free of structure
100 Beautiful ice like thick stalks tapering into small concave shape, like sculpted glass ,elegant translucent vases

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d100 more
01 Light brown bird nest fungi, fluffy cups with leathery dark brown stone structures inside
02 Pink tentacle with ridges from top to bottom anf black patches neat tips
03 Thick white stalked mushroom with thick slimy shiny dark yellow cap covered in spikes
04 Devils urn a black cup with light brown bark textured freckles, cup shoots sores at skightest breeze or breathe
05 Thick white stalk with flat top, covered in brown bark with white crackling patterns from growth
06 Stalks of white with thin plate like caps covered in veiny ridges, translucent when young
07 Thick brown-pink fleshy stalk with tall cap with spaced dark brown ridges from top to bottom, dripping fleshy mouths in between ridges
08 Shiny quivering jelly white blobs with black patches vaguely resemble gelatinous human skulls
09 Carpet of decaying white sponge with spheres growing on top
10 Tall yellow stalked ridged sponges with shiny brown caps, often smaller than stalk ridges
11 White or grey beard like mass, often hanging from other fungi
12 White willow like coral stalks intertwined in mass with thousands of drooping filaments
13 White lumpy tree branch tike smooth structure with green tips covered in tiny fingers
14 Masses of thin stalked shrooms start as white caps, then mature into flat ridged caps and turn violet
15 Tall yellow stalks with black and yellow cracking pattern caps with tiny yellow holes in tips, yellow hexagonal lattice frame grows around stalk
16 Green spongy stalks widen to glistening capsicum like plastic globs on top
17 Dry looking brown hairy stalks sprout into white antler shapes half way up
18 Mass of tiny threadlike tall red stalks with little yellow or green caps
19 White breadloke puffball clusters with brown crackled patches on topmost, look like delicious bread
20 White stalk with flat red cap with large delicate ridges of gills underneath
21 Split woody chunk like stalk with a breast like shape in middle, a dark brown colour starts from nipple and tapers to edges, shoots cloud of spores in slightest breeze or breath
22 White thin stalks with tiny red dot heads like matchsticks growing in mass
23 Thick white stalk tapering to sphere covered in nodules
24 Crinkly purple cabbage like mass on sponge violet stalk
25 Veiny ridged grey pods when mature lid pops off and spores spray out
26 Thick carpet of soft fluffy green filaments
27 White eggs which eventually burst and brilliant scarlet phalus cap with yellow stalk erupts
28 Crinkly ridged trumpet from ground with white outside and mustard yellow slimy inside
29 Thin white stalk with array of four or five long white fuzzy finger structures
30 Crinkly grey sponge carpet with similar looking grey trumpets with read globules on rim of horn
31 Pink globs covered in stubby fingers
32 Great woody columns resemble weathered stone formations
33 Central sphere with fine peelings of skin and dozens os small stubby yellow cap shrooms from mass
34 Egg bursts on maturity into mass of pink tentacles
35 Spongy red dodecahedron with black centes on each face of the polygon, stinks to attract bugs
36 Squat dry looking white stalked yellow gilled mushroom with red cap covered in drooping mouth shapes
37 Octopus mushroom with white thick stalk, purple underside of octopus looking cap splint into twisted tapered tentacles, gold on top, even has sucker looking lumps on underside of tentacles
38 Thin grey stalk widens to mace like spiky head, grow evenly apart
39 Mass of very tall thin intertwined soft stalks with button caps, come in white, black, grey or violet
40 Crinkly translucent white carpet mass
41 Brown speckled egg opens when mature and black tendril with crinkly red crescent rises out
42 Violet stalk widens to mass of many luminous cyan strings of beads
43 Scarlet elf cup shape grows straight from ground, spongy on outside darker smooth inside
44 Stems terminating in mass of crinkly spheres, white and grey
45 Thin blue stalk with spherical upside down cup, outside covered in spheres, inside with ridges
46 Devils stink horn, great red lobster claws bursting from earth
47 Grows from egg then splits into woody star shape with spore shooting breast shape inside
48 Stems with brown bell structure, shoots smoky trails of spores
49 Pink flesh ears grow in clusters on walls or on other fungi
50 Tiny thin filament stem with great black sphere on end, burst when mature
51 Stem covered in peppercorn like beads and capped by sticky shriveled black flower
52 Thousands of pink threads capped with buttons and pink droplets among clusters
53 Carpet of flat white stoney buttons caps without stalks
54 Bleeding gum fungus, pink gum like mass with blood like droplets, varieties in brown, yellow or indigo
55 Mass of white tree like growths with branches terminating in pink fingers
56 Thin spike covered red spheres open into mouth filled with white needle like hairs
57 Yellow shell like growth with cluster of thin yellow tendrils from sphere
58 Shiny brilliant orange fungus with lumpy and finger textured skin
59 Yellow sacks of fluid ready to burst with liquid
60 Glistening black mushroom
61 Spherical structure of white lattice
62 Great pink coral growths with tendrils and spheres of yellow tangled in branches
63 Dead mans fingers, mass of stubby grey fingers tapering into white nail tips
64 Carpet of red puckered lip like growths
65 Blue tooth like fungus, when clear of ground develops masses of fingers underside and gathers brown droplets of fluid
66 Brown fluffy carpet with black stalks ending in great droplets og cloudy brown-white slime
67 Woody brown round mass with thick flat capped stalks growing from mass, covered in brown skin with white crackle patterns
68 Pink fleshy cap mushroom covered in loose scaly peeling skin
69 Waxy shiny green tall mushroom with flat cap and yellow gills
70 Blue cap mushroom with white spots
71 Green cap mushroom with white spots
72 Yellow cap mushroom with white spots
73 Red cap mushroom with white spots
74 Brown mushroom with flat cap with brown lattice cage over top
75 Short stalked with tall white caps covered in peeling scaly skin, like to grow in masses
76 Decaying translucent yellow stalks with egg structure that splits on maturity to a lemon coloured breast with red nipple spore shooter inside
77 Violet and purple sponge caps growing straight from ground
78 Thick white stalk resembling badly melted candle
79 Translucent pastel green mushroom with variegated texture
80 Deadmans trumpet a slimy black trumpet with white skull patterns
81 Egg splits open with large spongy lump inside split petals covered in black and white crackling patterns
82 Slimy russet misshaped stalk with yellow rimmed slimy red cap
83 Thin tall red stalk with white slower like cap
84 Orange or purple coral fungi
85 Purple glistening phallus tapering to white at base
86 Skull cup resembles human skull growing on ground with top removed often gathers water or attracts bugs inside
87 A orange tongue like fungus grows straight from ground
88 Huge underground fungus only seasonally erupts surface growths of small brown dirty mushrooms
89 Brown capped mushroom with yellow spots
90 Slimy brown sponge paps with red stalks
91 Grey wisps of hair growing in carpets
92 Red spongy lattice spheres with thin masses or red filaments erupting from inside
93 Thick ropey yellow tendrils cover ground connected by yellow chicken hexagonal lattices
94 Woody black stalk with black spore pods, trailing red hairlike threads
95 Translucent brown gelatin carpet with stalks covered with scores of black spherical spore pods
96 Balls of pink fluff soft and squishy in clusters and carpets
97 Slimy yellow translucent fleshed squat toadstools with purple flesh mostly visible under skin
98 Witches butter, crinkly yellow spheres in clusters
99 Clusters of clack dry looking tall spore rods, outer ones tend to sag as new middle ones push aside
100 Witch's hearts, purple fluidy sagging sack with thick blue veins, bursts into slimy scarlet mess

I recommend go to Pintrest.com and enter fungus
Helpful for inventing mythos things too...



d10 Quick useful properties of your fungus
1 Edible
2 Poison (ingested, contact, blade, disease, etc)
3 Medicine (anti-inflamitary, anticoagulant, antiseptic, anti-toxin, treats a disease)
4 Hallucinogen (whoa dude, also can make you spew, some smokable or eaten)
5 Skin produces leather
6 Stores liquid (can extract water or collects in pools in caps or spaces in flesh)
7 Can be used as wood
8 Attracts edible bugs & grubs
9 Dye to stain cloth or leather or pigment
10 Alchemical ingredient (good for potions and magical reagents)

d10 Other physical properties
1 Grows large size of soccer ball
2 Grows huge size of a person
3 Grows enormous size of a tree
4 Grows titanic to size of buildings
5 Grows very rapidly from spores
6 Grows in huge colony
7 Secretes liquid or spores if harmed or exited
8 Super squishy and slimy
9 Hard and woody
10 Grows tall and thin

d10 Weird properties
1 Sentient, 1in4 telepathic spores, 1in4 has a face and can talk, can be good evil or indifferent
2 Is home inside or roost to other creatures who protect it
3 Is ambulatory and can move occasionally like a slug or might have legs
4 Has defence mechanism like tentacles, poison spores or secretions, screams
5 Glows and is a useful light source
6 Has important ritual and holy significance to locals who protect it
7 Will eventually form into a mushroom person (or giant one possibly)
8 Mushroom related to a spirit who communes with those who eat it or smoke it
9 Has magical properties if eaten
10 Highly infectious might turn you into fungi zombies, mushroom men, make you host to colonise world, or ruin all your formerly organic equipment, turn you into same fungus or just give you rotting disease


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d100 Bizarre properties of your fungus
01 Bleeds fluid if cut like blood
02 Stains you if touched
03 Grow on you if touched, mostly harmless small versions
04 Burst into sticky mess if touched
05 Shoots spores if touched
06 Quivers if touched
07 Squeaks if touched
08 Covered i fling insects
09 Filled with worm burrows
10 Insects living inside
11 Growing from remains of feces
12 Growing on remains of corpse
13 Growing on remains of larger dead fungus
14 Beads of coloured fluid on surface
15 Covered in coloured dust, easily disturbed
16 A appropriate sized toad sits on top
17 A appropriate sized snail climbing it
18 Patches of hairlike threads of other fungus growing on it
19 Stalks with glowing fungi bulbs parasitically crowing on it
20 Flings spore pods
21 Explodes and infects victims
22 Screams alerting other creatures if bothered
23 Sings strange music
24 Creatures living inside defend host and it grows on corpses of their left overs
25 Glows with dull light, if already does then lights change as if communicating something
26 Fermented mildly alcoholic fermented beverage pools naturally in fungus
27 Bubbly foam pours from fungus when sporing
28 Dripping liquid from fungus when sporing
29 Fungus has eyes
30 Fungus has face
31 Fungus has remains of corpse buried in it
32 Fungus has been tagged with marker by someone for later
33 Fungus being munched on by happy caterpillar
34 Fungus guarded by dark elf
35 Fungus guarded by goblin
36 Fungus guarded by gnome
37 Fungus guarded by ogre
38 Fungus has a little fence around it
39 Fungus has alarm spores attracting mushroom men druids
40 Panic spores act as mood altering drug on attackers
41 Dozing happy creatures laying about intoxicating fungus
42 Smokey spores drifting from skin
43 Screams if plucked with face on root mass like a baby
44 Dark elf rune patterns
45 Goblin glyph patterns
46 Gnome pictogram patterns
47 A sentient caterpillar lounging on top with human face
48 Demonic sigils markings on top
49 Has other fungus growing on it parasitically
50 Faerie foot prints around it
51 Connected to huge underground network of same species
52 Collects fluid in depressions or concave cup, might be narcotic or poison or just water
53 White sticky milk fluid leaks if cut
54 Has been used as shrine or altar
55 Flickering blue magical light around it
56 Life cycle phase melts into slime
57 Life cycle phase becomes mobile and wanders about on legs
58 Life cycle phase flies with gas bags with dangling tendrils like a jellyfish
59 Life cycle phase appearance changes radically to different fungal form
60 Life cycle phase forms into mobile gelatinous mass
61 Life cycle phase forms into slug like creature with stinger tendrils
62 Sways and undulates hypnotically
63 Sprays sleeping spores if disturbed
64 Flesh rotting disease gel colony on antler growths
65 Symbiosis with deadly slime organism
66 Squirts infectious ooze at intruders to colony with spasming fleshy rods
67 Naked maidens dance over it for fertility
68 Fleshy tentacles burst from ground at intruders
69 Sleeping newborn goblin baby sleeping under cap
70 Creatures deposit scraps around fungus
71 Has big bite marks
72 Creature laid eggs all over it
73 Huge moth gently resting on top
74 Huge web built over with big spider
75 A flog laying on it smoking a pipe
76 Goblins using as a table to play cards
77 Goblins with sickles gathering them up
78 Eerie phantom forms over briefly, human or mushroom man?
79 Forms fairy rings circles used by dancing elves, witches and wizards
80 Sprays hallucinogenic spores if disturbed, see illusions
81 Sprays charming spores if disturbed, victims love fungus and wish to tend and protect it
82 Shoots transparent tendrils into bodies that approach and pump with infectious spore colonies
83 Flings explosive spore pods
84 Explodes if bothered as colony defence and to spread spores
85 Area covered in slimy slippery slime secretions
86 Infects living victims and grow from heads, turn into slaves who spread fungus
87 Infects dead and turns into servant zombies
88 Spores infect wood, natural fabric, leather or wood and turn to slime rapidly
89 Spores spread symbiotic culture over skin change your skin colour to strange unnatural colour
90 Has delicious aroma
91 Small unhappy creature trapped inside
92 Corpse inside gelatinous mass next to or under fungi
93 Fungal claws nip intruders, some poison too
94 Telepathy spores put all in area into mindlink with fungus mind, "please don't eat us"
95 Squirts black fluid if skin pierced
96 Surrounded by puffballs that if touched fill air with choking black spore clouds
97 Fungus has squirming tendrils growing into head and body or dormant creature in coma
98 Tastes like delicious pudding
99 Highly addictive feelings of euphoria if eaten
100 Large insects colony are cultivating and tending fungus

d100 Magical mushroom munching mayhem
01 Mushroom goddess will grant you a lesser wish
02 If parts of you are cut off they regrow about a week per pound, excluding your head
03 If any body parts are cut off you two grow back about a week per pound, excluding your head
04 You develop a close bond with a mushroom person who turns up shortly. They are a new follower and have a telepathic link to you
05 You can create a 3" wide fog cloud of spores three times per day by exhaling
06 If you die and your head is intact you wake up next day minus one CON point with one HP, you can heal as normal and you no longer age after the first time
07 Your spongy mushroom like flesh has less critical locations and you now weep strange fluid slowly if cut +2 AC
08 Nobody can tell your alignment anymore with magic, your spirit is free of this when you die
09 You grow a lovely unicorn like horn giving you a extra d6 attack every round
10 You develop a chaos mutation and for every one after first you have a 10% chance of turning into a shoggoth (use your choice mutation table)
11 You can sustain yourself for food and water by eating dirt but you prefer rich black soils to just sand
12 You always know which way is north like a compass
13 You can exhale a spore cloud that spreads fungus colonies and if used within 1" on a persons face they Make a CON save or are overcome by sneezing for a d4 rounds giving them -2 to hit and reducing AC by 2 also
14 Tiny insects that bite you die making you immune to swarms and certain spells that damage with insect stings or bites, giant or man size insecticides just think you taste bad
15 You can talk to worms, maggots and grubs but they dont have a lot to say
16 You never need to go to the toilet and are never flatulent
17 Your wounds stabilize automatically below zero
18 Bugs love to crawl on you and in your possessions but it doesn't bother you
19 You can read by touch any text even if eyes removed
20 Creatures licking you or biting you make a CON save or hallucinate and feel nausea
21 You can speak to frogs, toads,newts and salamanders
22 Nothing makes your stomach feel sick or nausea, you can eat rotten food unharmed
23 Once a day you can belch a stinking cloud with you at the centre that is harmless to you
24 You gain 1d3 languages
25 Fungus creatures find you adorable
26 You are immune to spore attacks from fungal creatures
27 You sense life within 3" range
28 You glow in the dark like luminous fungus
29 Other Planar beings get -2 to hit you
30 You no longer need to breathe but you become dormant with no air supply, awakening from coma when air restored
31 You are immune to acid
32 Fungi and slime creatures will only hurt you in self defense
33 Mushrooms grow in your footsteps
34 You taste foul and everything that bite you avoid doing so again unless desperate
35 You taste delicious and everything wants to taste you
36 Everything you eat tastes fantastic
37 You crave blood and raw flesh
38 Rats, mice and tiny birds love to clean for you and dress you if you sing
39 You can ignite a candle flame from your finger at will
40 Your clothes, bedclothes, leather goods become mouldy after a few days in your possession
41 You no longer require food as mushroom grows in your stomach
42 A type of animal love to follow you d6 1=rats 2=cats 3=dogs 4=horses 5=cows 6=pigeons
43 When angry or yelling or exited foam comes out of your mouth
44 When angry your eyes glow and smoke comes from your mouth
45 You turn into a d4 1=Orc 2=Ogre 3=Goblin 4=Kobold
46 You turn into a d4 1=Dwarf 2=Gnome 3=Hobbit 4=Elf
47 You speak in poetry, a blessing of the gods
48 Your glowing halo is visible to all indicating your alignment to priests, planar beings and other experts
49 Your eyes glow and your lower face becomes a mass of tentacles
50 You can smell blood like a wolf
51 A baby clone version of you grows on you over a month then drops off then develops normally, happens every year
52 Skin becomes invisible making you a monstrous skeleton like horror
53 You develop night vision, if you have already it becomes superior
54 You develop faster running speed +1d4
55 You develop shiny metallic skin +2 AC
56 You develop insect like chitin shell +2 AC
57 You develop hand and foot webbing and can breathe water, full move rate in water
58 You become hairless
59 You grow hair all over
60 You grow a tail
61 You grow horns or antlers
62 Your skin colour assumes a bright single rainbow hue, with you hair possibly having a different one
63 Your sexual characteristics shrink by 90% and you are infertile
64 Your sexual characteristics enlarge by 2d6x10% and you are extraordinarily fertile
65 You become androgynous and your gender characteristics are less distinguishable
66 Sexual characteristics disappear making you a androgynous neuter
67 Now a fully functional hermaphrodite with both sets of sexual characteristics
68 Cures 1d8 HP damage
69 Cures disease
70 Cures poison
71 Cures all wounds
72 +1d4 on stat d3 1=WIS 2=INT 3=CHA for 1 hour
73 +1d4 on stat d3 1=STR 2=DEX 3=CON for 1 hour
74 +1 on stat d3 1=WIS 2=INT 3=CHA
75 +1 on stat d3 1=STR 2=DEX 3=CON
76 Die and reincarnated instantly as new species
77 Past life flashbacks revealing ancient secrets - possibly reveals loot or dungeon
78 Devolve into d4 1=fish person 2=lizard person 3=frog person 4=rat person 5=ape person 6=amoeba person
79 In moments of stress or injury you transform into a mushroom person, you were mushroom you
80 Change alignment one step
81 Change alignment to opposite
82 Prophetic dream of near future - possibly reveals loot or dungeon
83 Develop second alien personality that takes charge when you are unconscious and raises you to positive 1d4 HP, for a while it is in charge till next sleep, also takes over if you are charmed and other times
84 See invisible or other planar non corporeal spirits in 3" range
85 See planar beings or dimensional weak points or gates within 3" range
86 In trance speak to planar beings of your alignment and ask d3 questions
87 In trance speak to planar beings of your opposite alignment and ask d3 questions
88 Can now detect magic on sight in 3" range
89 When you die you become a fungal zombie
90 Save with CON or infected with fungal zombie disease, once resisted always immune
91 Mushrooms grow on you seasonally, more if damp, dark and don't get to wash
92 Save with CON to vomit up a grey ooze monster otherwise it painfully kills you and eats your corpse
93 Enhanced immunity to parasitic infection from symbiotic colony inside you, parasites leave you fast
94 Enhanced immunity to poison +2 from symbiotic colony inside you
95 Enhanced immunity to disease +2 from symbiotic colony inside you
96 When you die mushroom folk erupt from your corpse
97 Every stool you excrete turns into a baby mushroom person
98 Save with CON or go into fever and become mushroom person
99 You can communicate with mushroom folk via spores
100 A microscopic civilisation evolves inside you of mushroom people who develop faction, at least some who worship you as a great god


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[tauster]

I started this project in another thread, but since it's mushroom-related, it should really go here...


A wonderful scene from 4E's Underdark sourcebook: A Mushroom arch.




I made a strong inner frame with aluminum (cleaned catfood containers)




Glued the arch to a MDF base and textured the crumpled aluminum with more hotglue




Covered the whole thing with a heavy coat of PVA, then wrapped old paper towels around that were soaked in watered-down PVA glue. More glue applied where needed.

  


[update]

Primed black, then scrap metal glued on, plus more coffee grinds to hide the metal below the texture.


It took one night to dry. At that point I was unsure whether this might look too 'crumbly' in the end but I'm happy I tried anyway. There's only one way to find out after all. Also I was quite sceptical that the metal will stand out when painted up.



Based black for a second time, then drybrushed dark grey.
 

The metal is totally invisible, so much that I have to search it with an magnet.
 


Next steps:
- Paint up lots of small and tiny mushrooms (much smaller than the ones above). I want them to glow blue like in the Underdark pic, which will take a bit of playing around.
- Learn Object source lighting, i.e. finding out how to get the rock to glow with the blue sroom light. I'll probably try that on a few test pieces so I don't ruin the arch. If this works out, I'll have masterd another important technique...

A quick youtube search came up with a couple of tutorials. I haven't watched them so far (later that night, probably) so I can't say if they're actually useful. Since I don't have an airbrush, these are less useful for me. If you know any good ones, please share.

[tauster]

...after a month-long hiatus: Mushrooms for the mushroom arch!

I have a half-dozen magnetized spots on the arch, but I want the funghi patches fixed. So I needed some more mushrooms, and this time they have to look like they are illuminating the rock around them (otherwise there would be no point in painting OSL effects on the rock around them).

Here's the WIP so far:







[update]

...wow!

I never thought OSL would be so easy, and so effective!

Granted, I just quickly browsed the video tutorials a few weeks back (I guess I forgot half of it already) and surely didn't do a proper OSL, whatever 'proper' is. I simply did a very fine drybrushing with a dark blue and green around the spots I intended to glue the 'shrooms in. But still, it really sells the 'these funghi are aglow!' message.

But see for yourself.
(Sorry for the picture-flood. i just couldn't bring myself to post less than these. )

The Blues seen from above. Shot taken twice due to crappy lighting.
(I guess I'll have to take some more shots in daylight tomorrow)




...and sideways:



The Greens.


I really love the design of the caps. I'm quite sure I'll make more of these. Lots.







Plus, some nonglowing classics on the other side.

[tauster]

Pics taken by daylight:

[whytespirit]

Wow, it's been a while since I was on, post grad studies, and there's been a whole host of excellent ideas posted. Looking forward to trying some of these out!

[runningwolf]

I did a few big shrooms, about as tall as a mini. Easy and cheap way.

Take a sqaure or two of toilet paper, do the water and glue dip. I slipped it over the tip of my finger to get the dome shape and set them down on a cutting board to dry.

Tight spin on another few peices for the stalks and let them dry.

Good variety on the sizes you can make.

You can leave it the way it is after drying or texture with sand or hot glue, or however you want.

Other option is that you can paint them before or after hot gluing them to the stems and base.

Thats my go to method.