The 2025 Monster Manual even gave us a few new options for monsters, which is our focus here.
They have a creative ability, however, allowing them to give telepathy to nearby creatures for an hour.
Still, they can bea good companion.
Basically, you use this one to alert other fungi of the party’s presence.
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They can also swim, which is just a fun extra.
You’ll just be trading basic attacks with the party until someone dies, and that’s about it.
We recommend just nerfing the 2025 one, though, if that’s the case.
Well, the Sovereign can use nearby corpses to make servants.
Essentially, they have all the Myconids tricks up their sleeves.
2Gas Spore Fungus
Better Off Dead
The Gas Spore Fungus is an interesting concept.
But they have a deadly trait that only activates when they die.
Because Bastion expansions cost money.
If killed, it’ll spread spores around it, forcing people in the area into a Saving Throw.
Whoever fails takes damage and gets the poisoned condition that will last for hours.
Art by Caroline Gariba
And it can pull people to it, turning them into part of its body.
The perfect monsterto add some horrorto your campaign.
Art by Helge C. Balzer
Art by Helge C. Balzer
Official artwork from Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos.
Official art from the 2025 Monster Manual
Art by Caroline Gariba
Art by Caroline Gariba
Art by Helge C. Balzer
Violet Fungus Necrohulk by Viktor Titov
