On the eleventh day of Critmas, my players got from me, eleven fungal floaters,
ten blooms a-bursting,
nine puffballs choking,
eight mosses shambling,
seven yeasts a-creeping,
six morels budding,
five glowing shrooms!
four lichen knights,
three molding sprites,
two seedling sprouts,
and a Myconid with spores all around.

Quick Description

Today’s reskin is the floating fungus in the background of this picture. Although I will say, this image is full of inspiration! Hear me out: Beholder. Cue maniacal laugh. Yes, you see it now. A myconid beholder. Because you didn’t like those characters anyway. Cue second maniacal laugh. Seriously though, the stalks on top of the spheroid are perfect as eye stalks. I imagine it as a general or commander, providing cover for its troops in melee. Or it could just be yet another form of Beholder never seen before, at least never seen and survived to tell about.

Reskin Details

• Original Creature: Beholder CR 13
• Changes: Change the creature type from Aberration to Plant. This is another creature reskin where keeping it as an Aberration could work for added variety.
  • Rather than beams shooting from the stalks, it would look really cool if the Floater were releasing spores that behave in the same way.

DM Tips

• A Myconid Beholder feels like the result of a Myconid experiment gone horribly wrong.
• Maybe warlocks or sorcerers created them, using whatever materials they had at hand?
• Perhaps these creatures are the result of plants in a Death Dragon’s lair, corrupted and mutated into Floating Fungi.
• Imagine the party facing this fungal terror as the mastermind behind an invading army of spore creatures, directing them from the safety of its aerial perch.

Tomorrow is the last day of Critmas! Come see what my players got from me on this final day.