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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5977195" data-attributes="member: 57383">I was going to give it DR instead of hardness. Since Protiston sporocarp is a living creature rather than a hazard, I don't think it ought to have hardness.We're having our "Epic Protiston" effectively instantaneously morph between Slug and Swarm forms, so I was thinking it should be able to spout sporocarps with equal speed.The "would be powerful in the sporocarp stage" can improved "Spell Penalty" for its self-division, maybe even a "Spell Bonus" for the larger sizes of sporocarp.Here's a rough outline:Sporocarp (Ex): Protiston can transform its body into mushroom-like growths called sporocarps as a standard action. It can use its Self-Division ability to transform pieces of its body into sporocarps while leaving the rest of its body in slime-form. The Protiston Sporocarp Table presented below has statistics for the sporocarps of different sizes.A protiston sporocarp is incapable of any physical action, so cannot move or make engulf or slam attacks. It can perform any other action, including casting spells without verbal or somatic components - which is every spell Protiston has, due to its Automatic Silent Spell and  Automatic Still Spell feats. The cells of protiston inside a sporocarp are highly coordinated, which heightens the sporocarp's mental abilities and spellcasting abilities (see the table).When first formed, the sporocarp is soggy, with a fire resistance of X.  Protiston can dry out any or all of its sporocarps in 1 round as a free action. A dried-out sporocarp gains vulnerability to fire and all the protiston cells inside it transform into spores.Any round a weapon attack does damage to a dried-out sporocarp it splits open, scattering spores in a spread with a radius given in the table. The spores attach themselves to any organic matter they touch (including living  creatures) and immediately start to digest it, doing XdX points of  acid damage per round (the acid damage only harms organic materials such  as flesh or wood). On the first round of contact, the spores can be  scraped off a creature (exposing the scraping device to the spores' acid  damage), but after that it must be frozen, burned, or cut away (dealing  damage to the victim as well). Anything that deals cold or fire damage,  sunlight, or a remove disease spell destroys a spore infestation.The spores will form protiston cells and eventually regrow into squares of protiston's slime-body, but this process takes at least X hours? days? A single spore can reform Protiston's entire body in as little as Y days if it has sufficient food.Number of 5 ft. . . . . . Height of . . . . . Damage. . Spore Effects . . . . Mental . . Spell Squares .. Size .. 'Mushroom' . AC . Reduction . Spread / Damage  . .. Modifier*. Modifier** 4-8 . . . Large . . . 10 ft. . . 4 . . 5/— . . . 30 ft. / 2d6 acid . . . -5 . . . . -2 9-15 . . . Huge . . . 20 ft. . . 3 . . 6/— . . . 30 ft. / 3d6 acid  . . . -2 . . . . -1 16-35 . Gargantuan .. 40 ft. . . 1 . . 7/— . . . 40 ft. / 4d6 acid  . . . +0 . . . . +036-49 .. Colossal . . 80 ft. . .-3 . . 8/— . . . 50 ft. / 5d6 acid . . . +2 . . . . +1 50+ . .. Colossal+ . 100 ft. . .-3 . . 9/— . . . 60 ft. / 6d6 acid . . . +5 . . . . +2*Apply this modifier to any Int-, Wis- or Cha-based skill check taken by the piece of protiston in sporocarp form.**Apply this modifier to the DC and caster level of any spell cast by the piece of protiston in sporocarp form.</blockquote>

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