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<blockquote data-quote="Starfox" data-source="post: 6350576" data-attributes="member: 2303">On BeholdersThere are two places the beholder's eye rays cannot reach; the underbelly and inside the mouth. I have used both in stunt-friendly games.I've been sorely tempted to make a write up for a whole family of &quot;floating fungus&quot; monsters, including the gas spore and beholder, making them all fungoid and their basic motivation to fertilize the mycelium with fresh corpses (of course, the more intelligent ones have the potential for more subtle personal motivations). But I am not really in this monster creation game, so I've stayed out of it, so far. The gas spore would then not just look like a beholder, it would actually be related to it; perhaps beholders start out as gas spores that over-mature, perhaps there is some other link. Because so much of a fungus is the mycelium, the actual fruit bodies (what do you call the visible part of a fungus in English) is just a small addendum.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Starfox, post: 6350576, member: 2303"] [b]On Beholders[/b] There are two places the beholder's eye rays cannot reach; the underbelly and inside the mouth. I have used both in stunt-friendly games. I've been sorely tempted to make a write up for a whole family of "floating fungus" monsters, including the gas spore and beholder, making them all fungoid and their basic motivation to fertilize the mycelium with fresh corpses (of course, the more intelligent ones have the potential for more subtle personal motivations). But I am not really in this monster creation game, so I've stayed out of it, so far. The gas spore would then not just look like a beholder, it would actually be related to it; perhaps beholders start out as gas spores that over-mature, perhaps there is some other link. Because so much of a fungus is the mycelium, the actual fruit bodies (what do you call the visible part of a fungus in English) is just a small addendum. [/QUOTE]

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