‘Level Up’s Heritages in ‘Dungeon Delvers Guide’ – Finally, You Can be a Mushroom Person!
Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition lets you be a fungi at parties. Take a look at new Heritages in the Dungeon Delver’s Guide.
If you have never wanted to play a mushroom person in D&D, I have so many questions. Why not? What do you do for fun? When you close your eyes, do you see a vision of your deepest regret playing on a constant loop?
For the rest of us, there’s Level Up: Advanced 5th Edition. With their Dungeon Delver’s Guide coming to Kickstarter later this year, there’s a lot to look forward to. Players and GMs alike will find new rules for designing dungeons and traps, new subterranean monsters, and as we’ll see today, new PC Heritage options.
Let’s take a look.
Dungeon Delver’s Guide – Six New Subterranean Heritages
In the new book, which is fully compatible with both 5E and Level Up: Advanced 5E, you’ll find two different heritage options. And if you didn’t know, Level Up splits “race” into heritage and culture, allowing players to pick both separately. There are six new races/heritages in the book:
- Rockborn – elemental statues who roll into balls
- Mongrelfolk – mismatched animal people
- Oozefolk – ooze people
- Ratlings – rat people
- Doppelganger – shapeshifting people
- Mycelial – mushroom people
And of course each option has a rich entry of traits, features, and lore. Today we get to preview two of them: the Mycelial, which showcases the A5E version of the Heritage. And the Ratling, which is in 5th Edition format. The Dungeon Delver’s Guide will include both 5E and A5E versions of each heritage.
Ratlings
Let’s start with the 5E-ready version. This is a new player race option. As a Ratling, you’ll generally be small but canny. Ratlings gain Darkvision and Keen Smell which gives you advantage on perception checks relying on smell. Nice to haves for anyone.
But they also get Sudden Retreat, which grants any creature making an opportunity attack against you disadvantage. And Table for One which allows you to pretend to be Medium sized if you are two Small humanoids standing on one another’s shoulders.
What perfection. That alone would be enough. But Ratlings in 5th Edition also get to choose between the following two options:
Bottomless Appetite. You can eat and digest huge quantities of food in seconds. If you have sufficient food for one day, you can eat it as an action. When you do so, you gain temporary hit points equal to twice your proficiency bonus. If the food is of exceptional quality (worth at least 50 gp), you also regain 1d4 hit points. You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Constitution modifier (minimum once). You regain any expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.
Rat Swarm. You can make an attack with advantage if another creature has attacked the same target since your last turn. Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you’ve taken a short or long rest.
Mycelials
Mycelials, on the other hand, found mushroom to expand their options in the A5E ruleset. They’re not so different, really, but they get a few things that make them more rounded over a standard 5E character.
Mycelials all have standard traits like: Small in size, speed of 30 feet, Darkvision, etc. Their signature ability is a Spore Cloud that can be used to potentially damage and poison creatures nearby, per the condition.
But Mycelials in A5E have more abilities to pick from. You’ll gain a gift like:
- Soft bodied – squeeze through tight spaces
- Digger – gain a burrowing speed of 10 feet
- Overactive Enzymes – learn acid splash
And at 10th level, you’ll become a Mycelial Paragon, gaining even more special traits that either give you more movement options and resistances, or specialized spores that can do more than just poison creatures; they can charm, confuse, or frighten anyone caught up in them too.
Check out the full version of these Heritage options
Be sure and catch the ‘Dungeon Delver’s Guide’ when it comes to Kickstarter
