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Mossling

  • Kindred Type: Mortal
  • Level 1 PC Age: 50 + 3d6 years
  • Lifespan: 200 + 5d8 × 10 years
  • Height: 3′6″ + 2d6″ (Small)
  • Weight: 150 + 2d20 lbs
  • Native Languages: Woldish, Mulch

Mosslings are an obscure, stunted folk native to Dolmenwood, with an affinity for the dank plants and moulds of the deep woods. They are of stocky, pudgy build, with green, yellow, or brown skin, textured like wrinkled bark and patched with mould, lichen, fungus, and creeping plants. Their hair and beards are green or black and plant-like, akin to moss, ferns, or tangled roots. If injured, mosslings ooze white, sap-like blood.

Further details: The Dolmenwood Player's Book provides further flavour and background information on mosslings, including tables for backgrounds, trinkets, and personal details.

Names

Among their own folk, mosslings tend not to use surnames. If pressed by folk of other Kindreds, they usually adopt a mélange of Woldish words associated with their culture.

Naming a character: Either choose a first name and surname from the table below, roll for each, or invent something in a similar vein.

Mossling Names

d20 Male Female Unisex Surname
1 Dombo Bilibom Bendiom Barkhop
2 Gobd Brimbul Blobul Conker
3 Gobulom Ebbli Ebdwol Danklow
4 Golobd Ghibli Glob Fernhead
5 Gremo Gobbli Gombly Frother
6 Gwomotom Gwedim Greblim Grimehump
7 Hollogowl Higwold Gwoodwom Hogscap
8 Kabob Ibulold Hollb Mossbeard
9 Kollobom Imbwi Klolb Mossfurrow
10 Limbly Klibli Kwolotomb Mould
11 Loblow Klimbim Lambop Mouldfinger
12 Mobdemold Libib Morromb Mudfoot
13 Nyoma Limimb Mwoomb Mugfoam
14 Obolm Marib Olob Mulchwump
15 Oglom Milik Oobl Mushrump
16 Omb Shlirimi Shlurbel Oddpolyp
17 Shmold Shobd Smodron Puffhelm
18 Slumbred Skimbim Tomdown Smallcheese
19 Umbertop Slimpk Tomumbolo Sodwallow
20 Wobobold Smodri Worrib Twiggler

Choosing a Class

Mossling adventurers are commonly fighters and hunters. They are only occasionally accepted into the ranks of Dolmenwood nobility as knights, seldom seek membership of the Pluritine Church as clerics or friars, and rarely possess enough connection with Fairy to become enchanters.

Armour and Weapons

Armour must be tailored to mosslings’ small size. Likewise, mosslings cannot wield Large weapons (see Armour and Weapns). Mosslings prefer non-metal armour, and manufacture special suits of armour from hardened bark and pinecones.

Rolled armour: If a player rolls chainmail when creating a mossling character, it should be replaced with bark armour. Plate mail should be replaced with pinecone armour.

Knacks

Mosslings practice carefully guarded, quasi-magical crafts known as knacks. Each mossling knows one knack, rolled or chosen at character creation. See Mossling Knacks.

Mossling Skills

Mosslings have a Skill Target of 5 for Survival when foraging.

Resilience

Mosslings are hardy and resilient like the gnarled bole of an old tree. They gain a +4 bonus to Saving Throws against fungal spores or poisons and a +2 to bonus to all other Saving Throws.

Symbiotic Flesh

As a mossling ages, their dank, fertile flesh picks up seeds and spores which germinate into symbiotic plants and fungi. At each Level (including Level 1), the character acquires a random trait from the Symbiotic Flesh table. Duplicates may be re-rolled or taken to indicate an amplification of the trait.

Symbiotic Flesh

d20 Infestation
1 Outer parts of ears replaced by jelly fungus.
2 Patches of lichen.
3 Dainty flowers bloom in the beard in springtime.
4 Yeast infections in moist places.
5 Toadstools growing from joints.
6 Covered in slimy, green jelly.
7 Miniature tree growing from ear.
8 Skin riddled with mycelia.
9 Eyes fur over with transparent, yellow mould.
10 Edible toe cheese.
11 Growths of woody, bracket fungus in the armpits.
12 Mossy feet.
13 Climbing vines wrapped around limbs and torso.
14 Radical fern growth around groin.
15 Mossy biceps.
16 Puffball growths around the buttocks and knees.
17 Parsley chest hair.
18 Blackberry brambles tangled in the hair.
19 Edible mushrooms growing in hair.
20 Semi-sentient mushroom growing from top of head.
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