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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Graf" data-source="post: 4202531" data-attributes="member: 3087">[sblock=beating an idea to death?]So I was thinking that each myconid would just be a default sort of creature, but that it could pick up and act as a host for a "specialized" creature of some type. Like the glowing priest would be a rod like thing that they'd pick up and it would fuse with them arm, in effect taking them over and then they'd function like a priest-creature. Another would pick up a shield and it'd fuse with it's arm and be like a paladin creature.So the myconids themselves would just be willing hosts (like worker bees) and their intelligent (or more intelligent) members of society would be generally stationary fungi. Sort of like intelligent magical items.The other thought was to have them not be items so much as little fungi growing out of myconids themselves.Then I was thinking 'what if, in the future, some of the heroic souls actually start incarnating into myconids.In the meantime there is another potential problem: the group doesn't have anyone in the defender role. Ostensibly I don't care, but since I've never run a 4e game before I'd hate to have it wind up in some kind of TPK type situation.I'd been considering giving one of the PCs an item that allowed them to summon a defender type creature but that had two problems:1. Giving a single PC an item that effectively allows them to act as another PC is awefully powerful (i.e. they sort of dominate the conflict)2. The PC turned down the magic item.So now I'm thinking maybe I should just introduce a myconid paladin early on. He'd have orginally supposed to have been a dwarf but owing to a lack of suitable dwarves he'd incarnated instead. He'd be intelligent but basically incapible of communication and follow the party around due to a connection between his heroic soul and that of another party member. Maybe Paladin with the Fighter feats mixed in?I'm imagining a myconid with a glowing mantle of mushroom shaped spores around his shoulders.The myconids colony inhabiting the dungeon mentioned in the post above could be tainted in some way, thus the PCs could purge the myconids of taint; in the process they would gain an eventual ally (and possibly a way to deal peacefully with any myconid empire that's growing over the contenient).[/sblock]</blockquote>

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