Shrumling (5e Race)

Shrumling

Inspired in Shroomfolk and Mycelious, give them a look!

Physical Description

Weird living entities, that with a fast look will look like a Halfling, but with a more detailed watch, their dirty and stiff "hair" and slightly pale skin, could appear a little weird, and finally with a meticulous search to their face, will reveal their unusual big iris, and their gray sclerotic, but Halfling recognize them instantly.

History

Nobody knows when or why, but one day walking fungus with sizes and appearance of Halflings started to appear near of the woods, speaking a mix between common and elvish, acting unusually friendly to everybody, a really weird thing... But a "wise" (drunk, and/or intolerant) people (Humans, elves and orcs) reveled their true nature... Ending their weird plan, and giving a new reason to Mistrust Halflings.

Society

They live in communities in deep woods, and caverns, they look for areas poorly illuminated and very Humid, they tend to be friendly towards Halflings and other monstrous entities, sing and dance under the moon and spent the days inactive.

Shrumling Names

It is usually to them to use name based in ways to call fungus living beings.

Male: Funker, Mushiel, Shoox.

Female: Funchie, Mussnette, Mysciel.

Neutral: Fung, Amyc, Shrool.

Shrumling Traits

"Living mushrooms with Halfling appearance."
Ability Score Increase. "Your Wisdom score increases by 2."
Age. "They spent a large and very variable time growing in a mold state, like 3 to 8 years, then finally growth enough to take the size and form of an adult Halfling, then they are given a name and live until something end their lives..."
Alignment. "They rarely lean to evil alignment and lawful alignment."
Size. "Shrumlings average about 3 feet tall and weigh about 40 pounds. Your size is Small."
Speed. Your base walking speed is 25 feet.
Roots and Eyes. "You have tremor sense up to 40 feet additionally to your normal sight, but it's hard to concentrate in both at the same time, if you try to use both senses at the same time, roll with disadvantage, you don't need any action to change from one sense to the other, but it takes 1 round to activate the inactive sense, if you don't force keep both senses active, you stay blind 1 round."
Mixed Nature. "You are a weird mix of Plant being and Human being, all spells that affect human and plants have effect on you, but you have advantage to resist those effects."
Spore Clouds. "When you take damage, you can, as a reaction, make all characters at 10 feet or fewer than you, make a Constitution save roll against a DC equal to 8 plus your proficiency plus half your Wisdom modifier, round up; the effects are determinate by the subrace, you can use this trait as many times as your proficiency, you recover all your spent uses after a long rest."
Fungi System. "You can spend 4 hours inactive in a dark and humid place instead of sleep and drink water, this count as a long rest. Also, if you spent more than 6 hours under bright light, you'll need to eat and drink two rations this day."
Languages. "You can speak, read, and write Common and Elvish."
Subrace. The type of mold you were before your maturity, determine the color of your fake hair the most common are Blond hair, Brown hair and Black hair

Blond Hair

Your yellow cap looks like blond hair. Ability Score Increase. "Your dex score increases by 1."
Sweet Spores. "Those who fail a saving roll against your Spore Clouds are charmed to you during 1 minute."
Strong Heart. "You have advantage against be charmed."

Brown Hair

Your brown cap looks like brunette hair. Ability Score Increase. "Your Strength score increase by 1."
Weakening Spores. "Those who fail a saving roll against your Spore Clouds gets reduced their Strength and Dexterity scores by 2 and their speed by 10 feet, 1 minute."
Healthy Body. "When you fail a save roll that gives you an effect, you can negate that effect, you can't do it again until you finish a short or long rest."

Black Hair

Your dark purple cap looks like black hair. Ability Score Increase. "Your Constitution score increase by 1."
Hallucinogenic Spores. "Those who fail a saving roll against your Spore Clouds gets a -2 to all their dice roll during 1 minute."
Toxic Nature. "You have resistance to Poison Damage, advantage to resist being poisoned and to overcome from poison."

Random Height and Weight

Base Height	Height Modifier*	Base Weight	Weight Modifier**
2′ 8''	+2d4	22 lb.	× 1 lb.
*Height = base height + height modifier **Weight = base weight + (height modifier × weight modifier)

--Onirian (talk) 15:43, 5 August 2023 (MDT)

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