" A mushroom-like creature is digging with a spade in a lawn of fungi, surrounded by a complex mosaic..."
Simple encounter tables for caves in any fantasy setting. Tables for Combined Fungal Garden Encounters, Fungal Garden Encounter Details and Fungal Garden Locations.
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Fantasy Fungal Garden Encounters
Fungal gardens can consist of toadstool groves, steaming hot pools, crystal growths and colourful caves. An area dominated by fungi or merging with elements of the forest, swamp or caves around them. Fireflies, slimes, webs, slugs, garden tools and patches of berries
Populated by monstrous bats, shrieking mushrooms, sticky oozes, and odd gardeners.
There is a fantasy encounters generator at ChaosGen. There is also a pdf of these and more tables at the DriveThruRPG as Fungal Garden Encounters.
Fungal Garden Combined Encounters
These reference Fungal Garden tables for Encounter Prompts, Hazards and NPCs
| 1d10 | Fungal Garden Combined Encounters | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | a stream of glowing insects, swarming a blue slime or roll on Hazards | |
| 2 | a solitary (or giant)... d10 (1-2. monstrous snail 3. poisonous snake 4. boar 5. bat swarm 6. cave bear 7. bee swarm 8. badger 9. salamander 10. mutant toad) | |
| 3 | a dirty minstrel is playing along with musical fungi or roll on NPCs | |
| 4 | several (or a pair of)... d10 (1-2. nonhumans 3. hunters 4. goblins 5. adventurers 6. faeries 7. outlaws 8. gardeners 9. skeletons 10. fungi-folk) | |
| 5 | a lonely giant, made of fungi, debris and crystal or roll on Enc. Descs. | |
| 6 | a few (or many)... d10 (1-2. vampire bats 3. giant bees 4. mulch apes 5. elemental snails 6. giant beetles 7. gnomes 8. glowing lizards 9. giant spiders 10. ogres) | |
| 7 | a wide net of sticky strands, covering a deep pit or roll on Hazards | |
| 8 | a garden inhabitant, a(n)... d10 (1-2. fungoid gardener 3. compost blight 4. crystal ooze 5. gelatinous drake 6. fungal wight 7. noisy mushroom 8. stun slime 9. spore dryad 10. sentient toadstool) | |
| 9 | a wounded priest, who lost their allies to a fungal foe or roll on NPCs | |
| 10 | a potential (or signs of a) danger, a(n)... d10 (1-2. plant-monster 3. vine horror 4. hungry mist 5. earth spirit 6. will-o'-wisp 7. demon bat 8. wasp swarm 9. cave nymph 10. troll) |
Fungal Garden Encounter Details
Use 1d6 for beasts or non-sentient creatures.
| 1d10 | They are... (or one is...) |
|---|---|
| 1 | hiding from (or watching) a nearby threat or being very quiet |
| 2 | covered in... d10 (1-2. slime 3. webs 4. motes of light 5. a sack 6. beetles 7. lichen 8. black pustules 9. art 10. slugs) |
| 3 | eating bright fungi (or insects); or carrying a dangerous poison |
| 4 | trapped in a webs (or mud); or attracted to bright light |
| 5 | investigating (or consuming) a fungi (or slime) which is... d10 (1-2. restorative 3. bloated 4. sticky 5. moving 6. luminous 7. smelly 8. hallucinogenic 9. psychic 10. musical) |
| 6 | hunting for (or eating) food; or connected to nearby creatures |
| 7 | studying some tracks (or a map); or chopping something down |
| 8 | protecting (or patrolling) the area; or oblivious to the world |
| 9 | gathering (or searching for)... d10 (1-2. eggs 3. fungi 4. fireflies 5. poisons 6. insects 7. mould 8. anything edible 9. bright toadstools 10. pebbles) |
| 10 | making something using a fungus (or wood) or on high alert |
Fungal Garden Locations
| 1d10 | Area, a(n)... | Feature, a(n)... |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | huge mushroom (or stone) circle | tall obelisk or ancient painted tree |
| 2 | glowing waterfall or red gazebo | shed of tools or crystal formation |
| 3 | path of purple moss (or bones) | fungal (or rope) bridge; or beehive |
| 4 | sturdy hut or big nest with eggs | patch of berries or ugly metal statue |
| 5 | steaming hot (or sludgy) pool | stream with lights (or line of stones) |
| 6 | cliff with steps (or varied fungi) | iron (or stone) shrine; or fungal lawn |
| 7 | grove of toadstools (or statues) | slimy cave mouth or pond of frogs |
| 8 | lake with a bridge (or large cage) | bubbling pond of slime (or mud) |
| 9 | area of bright fungi (or crystals) | webbed archway or cloud of fireflies |
| 10 | large complex mosaic (or maze) | putrid corpse or huge runed rock |
More Encounters
There is a fantasy encounters generator at ChaosGen. There is also a pdf of these and more tables at the DriveThruRPG as Fungal Garden Encounters.
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