Powrie
Powrie are small mushroom-like humanoids known for their dual natures of being both extremely curious and extremely shy. Powrie are fungi and have no mouth but eat by absorbing their environment.
Osmosis: Treat all poisons as ingested on contact.
No Mouth: Cannot speak or use verbal components or anything that requires a mouth. Can consume potions and other items by merely pouring it on themselves. They are innately able to substitude somatic components for verbal components for any magic tradition they are trained in.
Redcap: Some powrie have consumed flesh or blood and developed a red tint to their caps. These powrie possess bloodlust and rage ability like orcs.
powrie (Playable Race)
RP: 11�“12 (Advanced Race)
Type: Plant
Size: Medium
Base Speed: 20 ft.
powries are sentient fungal beings driven by alien instincts of growth, propagation, and quiet domination. Though often feared as monsters, some powries develop independence from the colony mind.
Ability Score Modifiers
+2 Constitution, +2 Wisdom, �“2 Dexterity
powries are hardy and perceptive, but slow and physically awkward.
Racial Traits
Plant Creature
powries have the plant type and gain standard plant traits (immunity to mind-affecting effects, poison, sleep, paralysis, polymorph, and stunning). They do not breathe.
(This is powerful, but offset by slow speed and limited social interaction.)
Darkvision
powries have darkvision 60 ft.
Low-Light Vision
powries can see twice as far as humans in dim light.
Scent
powries have the scent special ability.
Fungal Flesh
powries gain cold resistance 5, fire resistance 5, and sonic resistance 5, but are vulnerable to electricity.
(Resistances reduced for balance.)
Natural Armor
powries gain a +2 natural armor bonus.
Clawed Growths
powries gain two claw natural attacks that deal 1d4 damage (Medium).
Colony Instincts
powries gain a +2 racial bonus on Sense Motive and Survival checks.
Limited Spore Telepathy
powries have telepathy 30 ft., but only with other powries or creatures currently infected with a powrie disease.
(Full hive control is unlocked via feats.)
Languages
powries begin play speaking Undercommon.
powries with high Intelligence can choose from: Aklo, Common, Terran, and Druidic (GM approval).
Alternate Racial Traits (Optional)
Deep Cavern Mold: Lose Low-Light Vision; gain tremorsense 10 ft.
Lurking Sporling: Gain a +2 racial bonus on Stealth checks; lose Natural Armor.
Racial Feats (powrie)
These feats represent the awakening of virulent spores, colony control, and necrobiological propagation.
powrie RACIAL FEATS
Purple Pox Carrier (Su)
Prerequisites: powrie, character level 3
Your claws transmit purple pox.
Save: Fort (DC 10 + ½ your level + Con mod)
Onset: 1 minute
Frequency: 1/day
Effect: 1 Wis damage
Cure: 2 consecutive saves
A creature can only be affected by this disease once per day.
Spore Cloud (Ex)
Prerequisites: powrie, Purple Pox Carrier, character level 5
Once per day as a standard action, you emit a 10-foot-radius spore cloud centered on yourself that lasts 1d3 rounds.
Creatures entering or starting their turn in the cloud must save against your purple pox. A creature that succeeds is immune to your spore cloud for 24 hours.
The cloud does not block vision.
Hardened Mycelium
Prerequisites: powrie, Constitution 13, character level 5
You gain DR 5/slashing.
Dominating Spores (Sp)
Prerequisites: powrie, Purple Pox Carrier, Charisma 11, character level 7
Once per day, you may use charm monster, but only on creatures currently infected with your purple pox.
Caster level equals your character level �“2.
Spore Geas (Su)
Prerequisites: powrie, Dominating Spores, character level 9
Creatures that have taken at least 4 points of Wisdom damage from your purple pox must succeed at a Will save (DC = 10 + ½ level + Con) or be affected by a lesser geas compelling them to seek out your colony or obey a simple directive for 24 hours.
Fungal Resilience
Prerequisites: powrie, character level 7
Increase your cold, fire, and sonic resistance to 10.
Spawn Bloom (Su)
Prerequisites: powrie, Spore Cloud, character level 11
If a creature dies while infected with your purple pox, you may choose to accelerate fungal growth. After 24 hours, the corpse produces a powrie thrall (GM-controlled NPC). You may have only one such thrall at a time.
Favored Class Options (Examples)
Druid: +1/2 bonus on Survival checks underground or in fungal terrain.
Alchemist: +1/2 bonus on Fortitude saves against poisons and diseases.
Witch: +1/4 hex uses/day (must be curse or debuff hex).
Rogue: +1/2 bonus on Stealth checks in low-light or underground areas.
Roleplaying Notes
powries experience individuality as a mutation. Many struggle between personal will and the biological urge to spread the colony. Even benevolent powries may view death and rebirth as natural, necessary cycles rather than moral acts.