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One of the most unique ancestries you can play as inDaggerheartis known as fungril. Fungril resemble humanoid-like mushrooms that come in a wide variety of shapes, sizes, and colors, allowing for ultimate character customization for your adventure. When you select this ancestry, you get to design a playable creature that can resemble any number of fungi, mushrooms, or even spores.
If you’re jumping into Daggerheart for the first time, and you’re not sure what ancestry you’d like to play as, you should consider fungril. Not only are they incredibly unique, but their features are very powerful. Here’s how fungril work in Daggerheart.
Fungril Ancestry Overview
As stated previously, fungril are highly diverse and canrange in height anywhere from two to seven feet.They can alsocommunicate telepathically,and have an incredibly long lifespan.
Each fungril has a fungril capthat can look like any kind of mushroom cap you may imagine.These continue to grow throughout their lifetimeand can end up being quite large.
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Fungril Network
As a fungril, you’re able to make an Instinct Roll (12) to use your fungi-like powers tospeak telepathically to any other creature of your ancestry.
There is no range limiton this ability, meaning you’re able to communicate with other fungril hundreds of miles away.
Death Connection
As a fungril, you can touch the body of any creature that died recently, andmark a Stress on your character sheet to extract one memory from the corpse.
Thesememories must be related to an emotionof some kind, so you’ll have to hone in on the type of memory you’re trying to extract.
Because fungril can extract memories from the dead, they’reexcellent for roleplay-heavy Daggerheart campaignsand for uncovering mysteries that your GM might lay out for you.
What Classes Work Best For Fungril?
While the fungril’s Death Connection feature can be used by any number of classes, because the Fungril Network feature relies on the Instinct skill, it can behelpful to select classes that synergize well with Instinctskills. Here are some classes that work well with fungril.
Warden of Renewal Druid
A druid’s spellcast trait is Instinct, meaning you’ll likely place a high modifier in this stat.
If you have a higher Instinct modifier, the more likely it isyou’ll be able to use your Fungril Network feature.
In addition, Warden of Renewal druids have a feature known as Clarity of Nature, which allows them toclear Stress equal to their Instinct once per long rest, equally distributed among themselves and their allies.
This means thathaving a higher Instinct benefits both your druid abilities and your fungril ones, making for great class-ancestry synergy.
Sorcerer (Elemental or Primal)
Fungril make for great sorcerers, as both subclasses in this classuse Instinct as their primary spellcast trait.
While ancestries don’t always make the biggest impact on your class selection,selecting classes and ancestries that benefit from the same stats creates good character optimizationfor your campaign.
What Communities Work Best For Fungril?
Most of the communities in Daggerheart can be tailored to your preference, however, for the best roleplay potential, you will likely want toconsider one of the below communities.
Ridgeborne
Ridgeborne are used to rough-and-tumble landscapes and jagged mountainsides.They are accustomed to the natural worldand are highly loyal.
This community’s feature is known as Steady, andgrants advantages on rolls to traverse cliffs, ledges, or other harsh environments.
Because fungril make for great druids,a naturally inclined background tends to make a lot of roleplay sensein terms of character concept.
Wildborne
This community is focused on characters who spent much of their lives surrounded by nature.The community description even showcases mushroom-like homesas examples of environments where these characters might’ve lived.
Additionally, wildbornes have advantage on rolls toavoid being heard while moving.
Becausefungril can communicate telepathically, being naturally stealthy in this way means they can communicate with allies about their position without speaking,making them excellent scouts.
Remember, when it comes to communities in Daggerheart,your character concept is ultimately more important than optimization.
Pick whatever background speaks more to your idea of your characteras opposed to optimization. The above options are simply there to inform you about possible ability synergies you’re able to experiment with as you play.
