D&D 5E What do Plants Want?

[Werebat]

Something to consider next time a player casts Speak With Plants and asks for help/information:

What do plants want from humanoids?

Among other things -- to be pooped on.

Quite the bargaining "chip".

 

[Mecheon]

Corpses.

For fertiliser.

 

[knasser]

Well, sometimes they want sunshine, sometimes it's dirt. And a variety of conditions from arid to mud...

But sometimes what they want is blood.

[video=youtube;i97IGPaUMx8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i97IGPaUMx8[/video]

 

[cheezitmojo]

Brawndo

 

[Lidgar]

Water

Sunlight (most)

Fertilizer

If a pollinator, some way to to spread/receive pollen.

And of course, a nice tune. Or perhaps someone like Bob Ross talking to it?

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

What do plants want from humanoids?

As the player will discover, solitude...when they tell him "Leaf us alone!"

...unless he happens to ask his stalker.

 

[aco175]

I always wondered what we could eat once we were able to communicate with plants. Some believe that meat is murder and once we are able to ask the plants if we can kill them for food, where would we be. Maybe that is why we have blights.

 

[Uchawi]

What they lack, which is primarily mobility to plant offspring, take out competing plants, or dispatching herbivores, plant eating insects, or eradicate disease/blight.

 

[not-so-newguy]

Electrolytes. It's what plants crave.






somebody had to say it.

Eta Ninja'd!

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

There was a documentary about this, hosted by a brilliant & charming researcher and his plucky assistant.

It built on some accidental but important fieldwork done by a group of amateurs on the same general topic a couple decades prior.