Today's entry is an old monster first introduced way back in the 1st edition D&D module Scourge Of The Slave Lords; the Myconids.
Scourge Of The Slave Lords had encounters in a wet dark underground cavern that was meant to be a naturally occurring setting rather than a man-made or constructed underground tunnel system. As such some creatures that would exist in that environment were introduced. Myconids traditionally exist in the neutral part of the alignment scale which generally means whether they are hostile or friendly depends largely on the actions of the players playing the game.
On a personal side-note Myconids are one of the few creatures that have existed in D&D for 30+ years that neither I nor any of my gaming friends owned miniatures for. That's not hugely significant but it just feels weird to me that after playing D&D for more than three decades with groups who play with miniatures that there was any monster that had been around this long that none of us had painted before.
-Jay
I want to do a forest terrain piece of Mushroom Men. Have you seen any other companies other then Reaper doing mushroom men?
ReplyDeleteNorth Star Miniatures has a pack called 'Violent Fungi' in their Frostgrave line. They look pretty nice, closer to the current art and less chunky than these figures.
DeleteSuper Dungeon Explore also has a mushroom people expansion and given the general look of myconids the chibi aesthetic doesn't stick out as much as it does with their character models.
Nick who does Broken Contract also mentioned to me that there was a mushroom men kickstarter last year but I can't remember by who off the top of my head.