Index | Playable Races | Monsters (Humanoids | Animals | Beasts | Plants | Fungi | Fey | Dragons | Aberrations | Constructs | Oozes | Undead | Spirits | Elementals | Ethereal | Shadow | Vitality | Void | Dream | Time | Astral | Celestials | Monitors | Fiends)
This page is part of the character sheet for Pathfinder, covering Fungus creatures.
For tropes pertaining to fungi in Starfinder, see Starfinder Plants.
open/close all folders
In General
- Fungi Are Plants: In 1st Edition, as carried over from Dungeons & Dragons 3rd Edition, all fungi are classified under the Plant creature type. 2nd Edition rectified this by separating Fungi from plants into their own creature type.
Bonethorn
Level: 12
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Medium
Thorny fungi that grow over a skeleton, using it as a framework to create an ambulatory body with which to hunt.
- Dem Bones: Skeletons are used as framework for the tendrils of the bonethorn.
- Revive Kills Zombie: Created specifically to exploit this. Any adventurer who sees what looks like a skeleton walking towards them is almost certain to bust out the anti-undead arsenal of healing spells. But a bone thorn is actually the plant growing on the skeleton, so not only do such spells heal them as they would any living creature but their Positive Energy Absorption ability gives them a significant buff for several rounds afterward.
- Spikes of Villainy: The vines of a bonethorn are covered in sharp spines. If a living thing is pricked by these spines, aka if the bonethorn hits them with an attack, they have to make a save or be implanted with its spores.
- Square-Cube Law: Bonethorns can't grow any larger than Medium, as their tendrils aren't strong enough to sustain such a size. Larger creatures that become bonethorns will only have a Medium sized portion of their skeleton used, resulting in strange partially formed physiques.
Cerebric Fungus
Level: 3
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Medium
Otherworldly fungi with boundless curiosity.
- Constantly Curious: Cerebric fungi display great curiosity about other species when they visit other worlds, asking endless and apparently senseless questions.
- Hell Is That Noise: A cerebric fungus can unleash a shrill, nauseating scream of madness.
- Plant Aliens: Cerebric fungi are native to a distant planet, and can be found on Castrovel and Nchak in addition to Golarion.
Cythnophorian
Level: 8
Size: Tiny
- Festering Fungus: Cythnophorians seek out victims to infect with noxious spores, seizing control of their bodies until they succumb and become incubators for new cythnophorians.
- Puppeteer Parasite: A cythnophorian is rarely encountered outside a host, typically a humanoid or animal corpse, which it burrows into and animates from within like a flesh puppet.
Dragon's Blood Puffball
Level: 8
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Large
- Defeat Equals Explosion: When the dragon's blood puffball dies, it explodes, dealing poison damage.
Drakauthix
Level: 9
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Huge
Large fungi that float through the Darklands like ravenous balloons.
Their stats can be found in the 2nd Edition Bestiary or online here
.
- Kill Steal: The drakauthix often scavenges the kills of oozes and vermin that share its habitat. When a relatively mindless creature kills a victim, the drakauthix drifts down, hooks the carcass with its tendrils, and reels in its meal. The mindless creature that just had its food stolen rarely holds a grudge and simply slithers off to find a new quarry.
Dweomer Cap
Level: -1
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Tiny
Small black mushrooms with bioluminescent patterns that shift and change when exposed to magic.
Their stats can be found in Ultimate Wilderness or online here.
- Bioluminescence Is Cool: When exposed to magic, the orange and purple patterns on their caps glow and shift. With practice, one can learn to use the differences in hue and patterns to identify the magic just by looking at the mushroom. For this reason, some adventurers carry them as early warning systems for magic traps or hidden casters.
- Familiar: They can be taken as familiars without any additional requirements and grant a bonus to identifying magic items.
Fuldrex
Level: 11
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Size: Small
- Mushroom Man: Fuldrexes resemble small humanoids with fungal physical characteristics.
- Undying Loyalty: When a much more powerful creature enters a fuldrex's territory and accepts it as a servant, the fuldrex dedicates itself to being a loyal minion, following even orders that would result in certain death.
Fungus Tyrant
Level: 9
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Size: Medium
Creatures grown from the corpses of succubi infected by Cyth-V'sug's blight.
- Ape Shall Never Kill Ape: Despite their jealousy, fungus tyrants do not fight each other and take great pains not to 'poach' from their sisters' harems of pets.
- Kiss of Death: The fungus tyrant's kiss drains the victim of will and personality.
- Puppeteer Parasite: A creature that would normally be slain by a fungus tyrant's energy drain attack instead transforms into a fungus-infested minion in her service. This creature is under the control of the fungus tyrant until that fungus tyrant is destroyed or the infestation is cured.
Giant Devil's Tooth
Level: 6
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Size: Huge
- No Body Left Behind: When a giant devil's tooth is killed, it undergoes an unnaturally fast decomposition process. Its mysterious pools of red liquid lose their surface tension and quickly seep into the cap and stem, all of which dissolves in a matter of minutes, leaving behind a large mass of noxious pink sludge.
- To Serve Man: The giant devil's tooth seems to prefer to hunt intelligent humanoids, leading many to believe that it derives some power from such prey.
Hyphae Tyrant
Level: 4
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Size: Small
- Defeat Equals Explosion: When a hyphae tyrant dies, a burst of primal energy explodes from its body, healing nearby fungi and harming non-fungal creatures.
- Was Once a Man: When fungus leshies grow bitter from the loss of their creations to herbivores and foragers, they can decide to combine unethical experiments, mind-altering cordyceps spores and occult magic fuelled by their own victim narrative to transform into a hyphae tyrant. It's unclear whether a hyphae tyrant's spirit can become a new leshy, or will become natural haunts or oni, or even fade entirely.
Mi-Go
Level: 6
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Size: Medium
Extraterrestrial scientists and colonizers who worship the outer gods.
- Evil Versus Evil: They're mortal enemies of the Dominion of the Black, and the two alien powers are almost always in open conflict when they meet.
- Public Domain Character: They're originally creatures from the Cthulhu Mythos, but have long since passed into the public domain.
- Shipless Faster-Than-Light Travel: A mi-go can survive in the void of outer space and flies through space at incredible speeds.
- Starfish Language: They mainly communicate by changing what color their heads are, with some of the colors being outside the range visible to humans.
Mindslaver Mold
Level: 3
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Size: Small
First World fungi who parasitize and control humanoid hosts.
- Festering Fungus: A mindslaver mold seeks humanoid hosts, feeding on their bodily fluids and forcing them to serve as its bodyguards and protectors.
- Puppeteer Parasite: As long as the mindslaver mold remains attached, its host is permanently affected by its dominate person spell.
Moldwretch
Level: 7
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Small
Deformed and reclusive fungal creatures who live in mold-rich areas.
- Combat Tentacles: A long tentacle grows out of a moldwretch's back and spews clouds of spores.
- Feed It with Fire: A moldwretch that bonds with brown mold is immune to fire, and fire-based attacks restore hit points to it.
Myceloid
Level: 4
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Size: Medium
Fungi who eat decomposing flesh, supposedly capable of tasting abstract concepts.
- Alternate Company Equivalent: They are very obviously based on the myconids from Dungeons & Dragons, only here they are evil for some reason
- Bizarre Alien Reproduction: They "breed" by infecting other creatures with purple pox, which, if it kills the victim, automatically causes a full-grown myceloid to spring forth from their corpse.
- Mushroom Man: A myceloid bears a strong resemblance to a rotund human, with a mushroom cap for a head.
- Tastes Like Purple: They claim to somehow be able to taste residual emotions from the corpses they eat.
- To Serve Man: Myceloids take particular pleasure in feeding from the rotting bodies of humanoids.
Nulmind
Level: 11
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Small
Fungi who feed on magic and minds, enslaving the empty shells of their victims.
- Charm Person: A creature that succumbs to a nulmind's mind drain aura might eventually become enslaved to its alien will and incapable of seeing to even its own basic needs.
- Magic Eater: The nulmind is drawn to areas of innate magical power or populated by spellcasters, feasting off the magic in the area.
- Plant Aliens: The nulmind is believed to be of extraterrestrial origins.
Phantom Fungus
Level: 3
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Medium
Tripedal fungi who can remain almost constantly invisible, flickering into view only when they attack.
- Invisibility Flicker: A moment after it attacks with invisibility, the phantom fungus appears briefly and semi-transparently, allowing any viewer with line of sight to the phantom fungus to pinpoint its location at the time of the attack.
- Invisible Monsters: Phantom fungi are normally invisible all the time, except when attacking or choosing to become visible.
Phycomid
Level: 4
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Small
- Acid Attack: A phycomid attacks by firing a glob of acid from one of its several mushroom-like stalks.
Psychepore
Level: 7
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Medium
A symbiotic fusion of a mobile but unintelligent shambling undergrowth and an intelligent but rooted psychic fungus.
- The Symbiote: A psychepore is a symbiosis of two different creatures: a lurching bit of undergrowth distantly related to the shambler and an intelligent cluster of hard fungal growths that possess a malevolent hive mind.
Reaper's Skull Puffball
Level: 9
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Large
- The Paralyzer: When the reaper's skull puffball detects prey, its tendrils writhe and exude a paralytic toxin.
Sporeborn
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Same as base creature
- Hyperactive Metabolism: Some sporeborn can consume the flesh of a helpless or newly dead creature with mycelium tendrils to heal themselves.
- Parasite Zombie: Sometimes seen as a more ethical alternative to zombies and skeletons, a sporeborn is a mindless minion created when a ritualist seeds a corpse with fungal spores, which grow tendrils throughout the body. The tendrils bond to mobile tissue and replace tendons, hyphae, xylem and pith with reinforced mycelium before reanimating the corpse.
- The Virus: A few sporeborn can create more of their own kind by infesting other creatures with their spores.
Spore Stalker
Level: 7
Alignment: Neutral Evil
Size: Medium
Aggressive extraterrestrial fungi creatures that can colonize and spread with incredible speed. Their stats can be found in Seers of the Drowned City or online here.
- Living Weapon: Spore stalkers are often used as biological weapons by the mi-go and the Dominion of the Black against newly discovered worlds.
Tendriculos
Level: 7
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Huge
A mix of plant, fungus, and animal that results from a corruption of nature.
- Eaten Alive: The tendriculos is quick to swallow any prey it happens to catch in its vines, relying upon the acid-filled reservoir in its trunk to finish off prey that may still live.
Tenebrous Blight
Level: 6
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Huge
Fungi from the Darklands that have an interesting relationship with light and spores that inflict psychological trauma.
- Technicolor Fire: Any nonmagical fire that comes into contact with a tenebrous blight immediately turns into a dark, purplish-black flame that sheds no light and are particularly effective in inducing hypnosis. These so-called blight fires must still consume fuel, and die out just as normal fires do.
Terotricus
Level: 19
Alignment: Chaotic Evil
Size: Gargantuan
Massive slime-molds that originate from the Abyss.
Their stats can be found in the 2nd Edition Bestiary or online here.
- Festering Fungus: A terotricus seeks to feed on all living creatures, infecting them with its spores.
- Fungus Humongous: The terotricus is a massive, Gargantuan-sized slime mold.
- Puppeteer Parasite: When a terotricus' spores cover the entire body of its victim, the latter's mind is subdued and bent to the terotricus.
Tsaalgrend
Level: 2
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Small
Complex, floating fungal creatures who support a symbiotic networks of other mosses, molds, and fungi.
- The Symbiote: Tsaalgrends symbiotically support a multitude of other fungi, mosses and epiphytes. The most powerful mold growing within tsaalgrends produces potent, hallucinogenic black spores.
Wizard Sponge
Level: 5
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Large
- Cannibalism Superpower: An individual wizard sponge colony typically takes on distinctive properties based on what it's consumed in its environment; one living in a necromancer's crypt might acquire the undead's affinity for negative energy, for example.
- Energy Absorption: The wizard sponge was intentionally crafted to not merely resist but be healed by fire.
Zygomind
Level: 18
Alignment: True Neutral
Size: Gargantuan
- Botanical Abomination: They're titanic fungal entities with devastating Psychic Powers that wander the depths of space. Upon finding an inhabited planet, a zygomind traps entire communities in a mental Lotus-Eater Machine, transforming their bodies into undead servants as they die of deprivation. Perversely, they're mindless Non-Malicious Monsters who are just instinctively seeking nutrients.
- Fungus Humongous: A fully grown zygomind can reach a height of 500 feet, and its mycelium can stretch for 10 miles in all directions, comprising hundreds of tons of biomass. The main cage is usually 25–40 feet in diameter and weighs around 40000 pounds.
