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Basically the title, are there any fungus-based races, monsters, magics, or powers already established in the megaverse?

Arrow21570 wrote:Basically the title, are there any fungus-based races, monsters, magics, or powers already established in the megaverse?

There's very little; there's some magic faerie mushrooms mentioned and started, Towershrooms in Rifts England that are big enough to be used as houses. There's also a Rifter article for After the Bomb that has a mutant mushroom person.
I created the Necrothals as a fan-race; they're essentially what look like animated skeletons but are really fungoid beings...
THat's all I can think of.

No Fungi from Yoggoth, I'm afraid.

Plant Based stuff:
WB 30: D-Bees of North America (several plant based D-Bee Races)
WB 26: Dinosaur Swamp (has plants)
WB 18: Mystic Russia (Nature Magic)
WB 15: Spirit West (Shamanistic Magic)
WB 8: Japan (millennium tree)
WB 6: South American 1 (Memory Tree and Trees of Wisdom, Bio-mancy)
WB 3: England (plant based magic, Millennium Tree)
DB8: Naruni Wave 2 (Molok Enforcers, plant Race)
DB2: Phase World (has a random Alien Race Table, one option is plant based, the table is also found in Heroes Unlimited)
Rifts Conversion Book 1 Revised (Maxpary has mushrooms, Faerie food has mushrooms)
Rifts Book of Magic (has WB1-21 compiled, might go a bit farther than WB21)

The thing about fungus-based races is that you might not like them,
but they'll grow on you.

Never really explored much the subject, to be honest. Overall i'd go with adapting plant-based stuff and the list suggested by Shadowlogan, with maybe some necromancy-related bits, if one is up to throwing in some "grows/thrives on death/decay/rot" angle into the mix.

Was fungus based a type in aliens unlimited?

Blue_Lion wrote:Was fungus based a type in aliens unlimited?

The closest thing in HU:AU is the Vegetation type.

(anime trivia: there was a fungus char in the series Final Fantasy Unlimited.)