Plant (new)

• Shambling Mound
• Dryad
• Tree
• Mushrooms and Mycellium
• Treant

Plants can spend their CPs on the normal skills (unless specified otherwise in the Skill Table section). However they can also buy the following additional skills:

Innate Tree Miracle (10 x (level + 1) points)

The Treant gains the ability to use the miracle at will. As with the usual method of learning miracles, lower level ones must be learnt before higher level ones.
This only applies to Treants.

Example: Treant
Tree Recall 1: 10 (Tree Recall 0) + 20 (Tree Recall 1) = 30 Points

Permanent Natural Barkskin <n> (5 x (level + 1) points)

The Treant has a permanent Natural Barkskin <n> running, this cannot be Dispelled and does not stack with any other Barksin.
This only applies to Treants.

Permanent Natural Bludgeon <n> (5 x (level + 1) points)

The Treant has a permanent Natural Bludgeon <n> running on their fists (special case), this cannot be Dispelled and does not stack with any other Bludgeon.
This only applies to Treants.

Shambling Mounds

Shambling Mounds are collections of plant matter granted a degree of autonomy and movement by the Path of Nature. They can either be created by Tree Druids in defense of their groves, or formed naturally by the Path of Nature to defend against corruption or for its own purposes. Shambling Mounds can attack directly with either their own bodies or wielded natural weapons, cast miracles or use salve like abilities depending on the plant. For example Holly Shambling Mounds may have Piercing attacks, whilst Trollsblood Shambling Mounds may have Regrow active.

Dryads

Dryads are living tree spirits bound to a particular tree or group of trees who protect the woods and nature in general from harm. Related to nymphs, they are rarely directly aggressive and instead use their enchanting voices and appearance to bend passers by or would be aggressors to their will. A Dryad’s life force is innately linked to its tree. They will not voluntarily stray further than 20’ from the tree for any prolonged period of time. If a tree connected to a Dryad dies, its Dryad dies with it.

Trees

Trees are not animate creatures. This entry describes base and/or typical statistics for mundane trees for times where this is relevant such as Tree Drain, Tree Heal and direct attack for creatures linked to trees (such as Dryads) or hiding inside them (such as Tree Withdraw).

Mushrooms and Mycellium

Mushrooms and Mycellium can cause significant hazards to adventurers. Normally found underground or in damp and dark places, various inanimate species can cause significant harm via the hazardous spores they release when disturbed. Animated varieties also exist which retain their spore abilities alongside more mundane skills, and have a worrying tendency to release their spores on death. Mushrooms and Mycellium are immune to the effects of their own spores. Unfortunate adventurers who have encountered the animated varieties of mushrooms have also reported they share a bizzare and alien form of hive mind that defies comprehension.

Mushrooms and Mycellium can have access to a vast array of abilities depending on the variety of mushroom. The below options are examples and not hard limits. The GM is recommended to have the abilities be consistent with the type of mushroom when identified with Recognise Creature.

Treant

Treants are animated, intelligent trees. There are various theories why this happens. Some suggest that it is due to the will of Nature, some say it is a natural evolution, and all trees have this potential and others say it is due to a higher level of magic within a region.

Treants generally avoid contact with other races. However, if plants, and to some extent creatures, within the Treant’s range are being devastated, they become enraged and start attacking all those they believe to be perpetrating this crime against Nature. When this happens, they don’t tend to be too discriminating and attack all ‘squishies’, though Druids (except Dark Druids) and Elves are usually recognized by all Treants as friends.