THE FUNGAL LORD OTHERWORLDLY PATRON OPTION Creeping silently and quickly through the forest, a female Wood elf holds a gnarled oak staff, sprouting with occa: sional fungal growth, close to her chest. Looking behind her she spies her pursuers, a handful of vicious ores in a scouting party, trudging through the undergrowth, searching for her presence. With a wave of her staff and silent word, white, fbrous mycelial tendrils burst from the forest floor, entangling her confused foes and allow- ing her to slip away, unharmed. ‘Sword in hand and facing down a particularly devious goblin, a male gnome with powdery white spores drifting, from his long beard reels backward as his foe strikes at hhim. As the goblin’s blade hits home, the gnome exhales a thick cloud of spores into the goblins eyes and throat ‘The goblin blinks, dazed, asa line of drool falls from the corner ofits mouth, utterly open to its enemy's attacks. A small human girl, wearing an enormous white hat shaped like the cap of a mushroom, hides in an alleyway from a cadre of royal guards searching for unlicensed and (they claim) dangerous magicusers. Though they are alert and wary, she waves a hand and weaves subtle ‘magics within their minds. The postures of the guards slacken as they relax, and they begin to chatter content cally amongst one another as the girl walks past them, blending into the crowd, Mushrooms and fungl represent a part of the cycle of natural life that is sometimes revered or feared, but often misunderstood. Breaking down other organic material creates nourishment for the greater environment, and good or neutral aligned fungal patrons tend to the cycle ‘of nature, creating life from death and ereation from de- struction, Evil fungal lords care much less for balance and seek to cover the World in theie children, using fungi solely fo constime and enslave those they deem lesser than themselves. Patrons that are willing and able to ‘make this pact include Zuggtmoy, the Carrion King, the Scarlet Lord, Araumycos, and Psyiofyr, Warlocks that make a pact with a fungal lord typically do so by spending a month and a day in a eave or forest ‘overgrown with mushrooms, communing.with the lord in {question through prayer and meditation, Should the pact be accepted, the prospective warlock will begin (0 grow ‘an inkling of their patron's fungal essence inside them, ‘subtly changing their physiology. Roll once or pick from the Mycelial Presence table to determine the exact change your character undergoes.68 Mycelial Presence Your hair scales, or similar are 2 distinctly diferent color, often purple, pale red, or light blue Aight coud of spores flake off of you whenever you move Your skin is markedly pale, an slighty rubbery to the touch Every night 2 you sleep, mushrooms grow on organic surf You have small clusters of mushrooms growing off your shoulders that regrow aRer a day ifthey are picked in a faerie ring around you Your patron has gifted you wit the cap ofa large mushroom that they expect you towear asa hat ata times az a mark af their Favor “The skin on your face as folds and lines that are markedly similar to the gill of mushroom 8 Any wood object you touch for longer than a minute slowly starts growing mushrooms EXPANDED SPELL List The Fungal Lord lets you choose from an expanded list of spells when you learn a warlock spell. The following, spells are added to the warlock spell list for you. Funcat Loro Exranpe SpeLis Spell Level Spells Ist entongle, seep 2nd calm emotions protection from pozon 3rd plant growth, sinking cloud 4th confcion, phantasmal ker Sth commune with naturs, contagion DecomPose Beginning at 1st level, you may grow a fungal bloom that ‘consumes a dead body, using its energy to replenish your ‘own vitality: As a bonus action, you designate within 30 feet of you either an unattended non-magical object made of organic ‘ora body of a dead creature of size small or larger that does not belong to an elemental, undead, or construct. natter that can fit inside a 5 foot cube, If this feature targets an object, the object takes acid damage equal to 15 plus your warlock level as mush: rooms sprout throughout it. If this reduces the object to 0 hit poi of spores behind. s, i disintegrates instantly, leaving only a cloudIf this feature targets a dead body, the body is immed ately consumed and destroyed, becoming afield of mush rooms equal in size to the corpse of the creature that is dificult terrain to all ereatures other than you. You then gain hit points equal to your warlock level plus 5 hit points if this effect consumed a small ereature, plus 10 hit points iit consumed a medium or large creature, or plus 15 hit points it consumed a huge of greater crea. After you use this ability, you must complete a short or Jong rest before you may use it again. PsycHOActive SPORES ‘Starting at Oth level, you are able to exude a cloud of spores that can placate an attacking enemy. Whenever an enemy creature within 15 feet of you damages you with an attack, you may use a reaction to force the creature to ‘make a Constitution saving throw against your spell save DC. Ifthe creature fails, itis stunned until the end of its ddo not need to breathe automatically succeed on this saving throw: Afler you tse this ability, you must complete a short or long rest before you may use it again, 1. Undead, constructs, and other ereatures that MyceLium-BLoopED Starting at 10th level, the fungal gifts of your patron {grow throughout your bloodstream, making you more resilient to toxins. You are resistant to poison damage, ‘and you have advantage on any saving throws you make against poison, disease, or effects that cause those conditions, ‘SPORE SERVANT Once you reach 14th level, you learn the secret to reani ‘mating the dead by infesting fallen bodies with myce. lium. Asan action on your turn, designate a large or smaller dead body of a creature with a CR no greater than 6 that is not an elemental, ooze, plant, or undead, and that is within 30 feet of you. This body rises as a spore servant, using the statistics the creature had when twas alive and applying the Spore Servant template found on page 230 of the Monster Manual. This spore servant lasts for up to an hour, until it drops to 0 hit points, or you dismiss it with another action, upon which ‘crumbles into a cloud of spores, destroying its bod. Your spore servant has an inherent mental ink with ‘you, and responds fo any telepathic orders you give it, always giving your orders the highest priority I you don't sue any commands to your spore servant, it will defend itself from hostile ereatures, but otherwise will ake no actions, When you first summon your spore servant, or \when i first enters combat, it rolls its own initiative and acts on its own turn, independently of you. After you use this ability, you may not use it again until you have completed a long rest a ee ‘CREDITS! 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