I'm asking here if anyone has ever created new types of plants and trees for the athasian world, even plant monsters
I'm doing a project about the athasian flora compiling both official and fan-made plants. Here on the boards I'm asking about those who are fan-made.
Please give me any ideas you might have had about that; any contributions would be appreciated. :D
You are being measured against a high standard if you try to do something similar. ;)
But I already scoured that doc clean of every mention of flora, having even stated to 3.5e the alerma plant
My project is nowhere being near finished, but while it won't be an ecology treatise, like the excellent document you named, I hope that it will help bring life (before it is defiled :P ) to the athasian landscape.
Thanks Korvar, but in case you didn't notice, I worked with you on this one :D
Oh the ravages of time and senility!
Hehe, just kidding
I too forget with whom I've worked on this or that project if some time has passed. I have to look into MSN archives and search my emails to be reminded.Thanks Korvar, but in case you didn't notice, I worked with you on this one :D
Great comedy. :D
After reading a bit within the netbook, Elonarc presented, I had an idea about a fungus that could live on athas.
Debauching Fungus
Debauching fungi grow up to 4 inches. Their yellow stalks become fully grown up to 2 inches in diameter, whilst their blue umbrellas can grow up to 3 inches diameter. Debauching fungus grow on dead bodies, from which they absorb all fluids and decompose any other organic material left. Debauching fungi cover the whole dead body they live on, and they can survive up to 8 weeks, if the body is fully decayed. These fungi got their name, because they have a constant attraction power on, which tries to get every creature within 15 ft. to eat them. The save DC of that power is based on the numbers of fungi that cover the body (see table). When a creature eats the fungi, the spores within a debauching fungus start to grow within this unforunate being. After a week and every week thereafter the creatures becomes sickened and looses 1d3 points of Constitution until the creature dies. The creature cannot heal the ability damage while it is sickened. Two days after the creatures death, the first debauching fungi come to the surface and start to attract a new host for their spores. A creature that has eaten debauching fungis can prevent the sickness and constitution damage for one week by succeeding a Fortitude save. After three consective successful saves, the spores die within the creature and it can heal the ability damage normaly. A creature that is treated a whole week with successfull heal checks or is target of a remove desease spell becomes healthy and the spores are killed within it.
Just so you know, I also add the creator of the plant at the end of the descriptive text, if fan-made.
Keep them coming everyone ;)
There was also a Herbs of Athas net project IIRC. You might want to search for that.
Thanks Jon, but I also read and used the plants contained within this netbook. That's why I'm asking for original creations by members here ;)
Thanks Korvar, but in case you didn't notice, I worked with you on this one :D , and yes I added it, also with the PeaceBringer's cactus tubeworm and plant that looks like the hegbo, and vice-versa.
You know, I used to have a memory, once... At least I think I did. I forget...
The faded yellow flower of this leafy olive-color shrub goes to fruit every year, producing a handful of 2-inch diameter hard black spherical fruit. If the fruit are not picked within 20 days, the plant reabsorbs them, leaving nothing but a dry stick where the fruit had been.
Once picked, the yearfruit, true to its name, takes a full year off the vine to mature. The transformation from unripe to ripe appears to happen over a day. The ripe fruit has a green and a lucious aroma. The flesh of the fruit is white, and there are three black seeds. Sages theorize that the slow ripening process helps disperse the fruit to distant lands.
I think I'll make the document public once I have gone thru all the official books, plus added all those fan-made that I have put my hand on, that the creators have agreed that I use, and that people have sent me.
I must say that up until now, all people I have communicated with were really helpful and nice, offering and agreeing that I use their creations, that's really appreciated.
The Heppa Plant.
This broad-leafed plant is found growing along the edges of oases. However, it is almost always only found by the side of oases that have been contaminated in some way. This is because the plant's primary defence mechanism is to draw up contaminants from its roots and concentrate them in its leaves. Plants beside pristine oases are quickly eaten, while those beside contaminated ones kill off or dissuade potential threats.
Experts in desert survival often look for signs of the Heppa Plant when checking an unfamiliar oasis (so someone making a successful survival skill roll might spot a stand of Heppa plants, and thus realise the oasis is unsafe). However, it also has other uses.
Its poison concentrating leaves can also be used by knowledgable tribesmen to create poison filters. The leaves are carefully washed, pounded flat and dried in the sun. Water can then be poured through layers of the resulting sheets, filtering out any organic poisons. They don't work against mineral contamination, however.
There is another use for this plant. In order to spread itself as far as possible, the Heppa plant's seed pods burst open, spreading seeds on wispy, sticky threads. The threads are catch the wind and take the seeds far and wide; the stickiness means the seeds can stick to animals, only to drop off when the air gets more humid - such as around an oasis.
The medicine men of the desert tribes gather these seed pods when they are at just the right age - when the seeds are fully developed, but before the pods burst. Prepared carefully, they remain in that state for several months. They can then use the sticky seed fibres to bind wounds closed with strong, sterile adhesive fibres (similar to modern-day butterfly stitches).
(Incidentally, some tribesmen use ants to stitch wounds shut - they get the ants to bite the edges of the wound closed, then twist off the body, essentially stapling the wound closed)
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