Only grow in darkness

>Yes. Make every paladin that doesn't have a crusade against mushrooms fall next time you run a campaign.
>Also make them kill druids and rangers, since they are protecting mushrooms, and bakers, brewers, and people that eat bread or dring alcohol that use yeast in their production. Also candlemakers and tailors if you have a parrafine based industry. And in that case don't forget women, noble and artists that use make-up.
>It's the only way to be sure.

Character concept get.

No that's worse but still better than eating plants. Many paladins starve to death.

>are they undead?

No, mushrooms don't die and then come back to unlife so they aren't undead. Being undead has nothing to do with light levels and "relies upon other things being dead to thrive" describes pretty much every organism. They are cool as fuck though and it's your setting so you can always just say they are undead and play it that way.

I would actually like to see a paladin who uses a crow/vulture as his symbol. He looks for sites of bloody battles or areas where massacres are about to occur, then burns (maybe actually eats once he goes nuts) the bodies to prevent them from rising. Make him a neutral to antagonistic NPC based on what the party is doing since he doesn't work to prevent murder, just cleans up after it.

Whatever that image is, I'm spooked.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnellum_peckii

I consider them to be a key ingredient of healing potions, both because they contain an anticoagulant and because healing potions requiring a mushroom that looks like a bloody tooth specifically grown on the corpse of a dead holy man makes healing potions have a cost that isn't GP expensive, but explains why they don't get mass produced.

You could make a whole order of Paladins/Clerics based off this. The Order of the Sable Wing (too edgy?) could be a rabidly anti-undead group from various faiths who all lost something to the cold grip of the restless dead. Originally founded in a kingdom wracked by a ghoul plague, the Order's soot-blackened figures roam the land, rousting out ghoul nests, haunted sepulchers, and vampire lairs. The most visible, and controversial, activity of the Order is their presence at battlefields. Though some members do their best to lend aid to the wounded, all will make sure the dead do not rise, erecting massive pyres and consecrating the ashes. Old campaigners whisper that some of the Order aren't too picky about if the victim is dead or just nearly there, and tales abound about the screams of burning casualties tossed on the fire.

>Everything grows best on the corpses of dead animals
Agreed. Paladins should work to the eradication of plant-life.

>anticoagulant

My next character...thank you.

Ya gotta smite ALL the evil, boy!

Fungi are just alien plant-animal hybrids

No, they're alive, just...weird.

No, that's Lychen - Beatrix Potter basically discovered that Lychen are funguses that consume and incorporate moss inside them and use the moss to produce sugars for them.

"Fungal" and "Viral". Have a nice day.

Fungus is scary.

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>trusting mushrooms to remain still
That's how they get you man. Mushrooms are ambush predators.

>Demons are a fungi that grow on rotten souls.

I don't really see how your logic works.
Fungi is basically animals that don't move.

>fungi grow on corpses
I thought they grew on poop.

there's not enough fungus-people races in fantasy imo

Different fungi grow on everything they can process. Although I'm not so sure about poop.

They also grow on plants and animals. They might even grow on you.

>That's odd, I don't have DirecTV...

They tend not to grow on more complex life forms. Insects are where you get cordyceps, but after that they can't deal with the biology. They can grow in places where the body is compromised in some way, like athlete's foot and fungal infections.

Otherwise, different varieties have different favorite places to grow. Some grow in sandy earth, others loamy, living trees, dead wood, specific dead tree matter, bark, poop, specific poop, rocky soil, dead animals, dead plants, other mushrooms... You get different varieties for different regions and different spreads of them in the same environment based on what's around.

Also, don't forget fairy rings. Some mushrooms grow into fairy rings and there's a whole lore about that, too.

>are they undead
>implying a perverted mimicry of life

>decomposers
>are literally an essential part of the food web
>the role they play is essential to life as we know it

Mushrooms and other decomposers are just doing their job. The ecosystem needs to recycle dead biomass, or else our planet would wind up as a pile of corpses unable to sustain new life.

Fungi are closer related to animals than plants.

Yeah. Decomposing corpses is as un-undead as it can be.

Fun fact: D&D gives them the plant type.

Fungi aren't animals or plants, take an ecology course you fuckin layperson reeeeee

Algae, not moss. Though sometimes cyanobacteria.

Fungi are not in the kingdom Plantae, they are there own kingdom.

Have you ever thought that in context of circle of life, you pretty much have no purpose? Trees and decomposers can do without you for all eternity.

>Their.

Posting from phone.

That looks so edible.

It looks like a giant spider disguised as cupcake.

>you pretty much have no purpose
As an animal, I convert oxygen into carbon dioxide (fun fact: plants consume more CO2 than they produce, so they need animals to put it back into the atmosphere to make up the difference), my eating habits help to control the population of many animals and plants, and I turn soda into urine. Also, the earth will someday reclaim my biomass and turn it into grass or something to keep the cycle going.

Also, as apex predators, we're actually quite important for a variety of reasons.

>That looks so edible.
Now that you mention it, it looks like a strawberry ice cream or cake covered with tapioca balls or other gummies.

I'm sure decomposing plants would release as much carbon dioxide anyway. Due to basic conservation of mass. Consumers are unneeded.

>The part that most people call mushroom is only a reproductive organ.

Are you telling me all this time I've been eating fungus cocks?

In the same sense you've been eating appletree's genitals all this time.

The tastiest parts of any given plant are the reproductive portion.

What do you think seeds are, exactly? Bread is ground up plant babies that has been baked.

They are not poisonuos, but extremely bitter.

>they are there own kingdom.

Is it an undead kingdom, ruled by skeletons?

>Consumers are unneeded.
Yeah, except for birds and all the things they require.

Also, population control is a factor most people forget. Even plants need that.

According to wikipedia, they taste disgusting.

To be fair that's only the eggs of appletrees - the flowers are the genitalia

You are eating tree's uteri full of babies.

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Taking about this shit. Can anyone help me identify something I saw when I was a kid and was impressed. it grew on oaks and was round white and red.

No different then enjoying chicken periods.

Did it look like a mushroom like shelf?

It made me think of an apple.

>Your party has entered the candy forest
>Animals can be seen munching on the gummy-tree

>the party's ranger notices some deer droppings
>examines them
>sniffs them
>puts one in his mouth
>"hmm...raisins"

>mmm, delicious chocola-
>It's not chocolate!
>W-what is it?
>It's...oatmeal raisin.

>Oatmeal raisin
The work of pure evil

Fine, they're both in the clade Opisthokonta, while plants are only related by being in the domain Eukaryota.

Would you mind posting that in English and not in fucking Klingon?

>not knowing your way around the Linnean binomial nomenclature

>hitler is really just making human bread

>Im angry that people know things I dont

fungi, in the big tree of life, are closer to animals than plants

Looks delicious.

First we kill all plants, then we kill all insects!

>parasitic organism
>wanting to kill off its host population

Parasite what are you doing. No, this is bad for you. Parasite stop.

kek'd

>Mushrooms are just opportunistic forms of life.
So Chaotic Neutral?

That shit haunts my nightmares

youtube.com/watch?v=XuKjBIBBAL8

Did it look like this? If so, don't eat it. It won't make you grow.

>that moth with all the little shrooms all along its wings

jesus christ how horrifying

HELLO NOSTALGIA BOMB

I love how the music and camera techniques make it seem even more like something out of a Tim Burton movie.

You aint seen nothing yet

Some fungi are parasites, but a lot of them live in the roots of plants, living in a symbiotic relationship with them.

Carpenter Ants even cultivate symbiotic fungi which in turn offers them protection from a bunch of other deadly fungi, cordyceps included.

no, he literally meant zombie virus that hunts down and devours other viruses.

pay no attention to their lack of locomotion

Carnivorous fungi are my favorite. They create snares and loops to trap nematodes (round worms), which they then consume alive.

Eating fly agaric is great, and no it won't kill you.

>tries to talk biology
>thinks a parasite that reproduces through an r-selected organism like an insect is at any time going to run short of hosts

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Pretty dumb desu, I recommend he goes back to school

sounds like a great poison for high bleed weapons

Jesus christ how horrifying!

Fungi are not plants of any kind. They're actually closer to animals than they are to plants. Take a fucking biology class.

where are mushrooms created by clerics that decompose corpses so that no zombies or undead can be created from them. And make them glowing mushrooms, so that they bring light to dark places.

More of a Druid thing, outside of nature Clerics.

>Doesnt walk around
SAY THAT TO MY FACE YOU RACIST

Wiki link?

>Smite evil

Myconids are neutral.

Not if they're evil.

Boletes and morels are good. Amanitas ans lepiotas are evil.

>grow a mushroom off of another mushroom

THE ULTIMATE LIFEFORM!