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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 |
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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 |
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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. |