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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AbdulAlhazred" data-source="post: 4981095" data-attributes="member: 82106">Roots of the Colony is pretty nasty since it effectively means when you fight Myconids its practically as if they had one giant hit point pool. Thus 5 myconids will ALL stand until the very end of the encounter, doubling their action economy roughly. I think the reason the other Myconid powers are not SUPER incredible is just this, if they were the shroomheads would be scary tough to beat at all.Even so consider a Rotpriest. He stands behind the lines and uses Sacrifice for the Colony to absorb the damage dealt to the guards in front of him. Then he regenerates. If he dies he lifebursts and pumps the guards back up by 10 HP each. His melee/close powers are decent so if he happens to be on the front lines he can easily hold his own. The guards can either simply fight melee style and spread out damage amongst them or if the opportunity arises jump into the middle of the party and drop pacification spores to rob the party of attacks. Even when surrounded they will be hard to take down due to Roots of the Colony. The sovereign isn't worth a huge amount in combat, though his dazing power is handy. Commanding Spores is a weak power certainly but it gives him something to do every round and if he can shift guards into ideal position to use pacification spores it isn't all that bad.Overall the mushroom men are fairly weak monsters, but I would suggest using mass numbers of them against a bit higher level PCs and see what happens. Collectively they'll have loads of HP and even with their weak defenses it will be a tough attrition battle for the party. Alternatively a small number of them used vs lower level PCs (1st or 2nd level) should be fun too as the party will hit often but the shrooms will continue to fight hard.Overall these fights devolve into the party doing massive amounts of damage and the shrooms just taking it and coming back for more. Its fun.</blockquote>

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