Mycologist’s Primer

Introducing the Mycologist’s Primer, a system-agnostic illustrated guide to real-world magical mushrooms, lichens, and slime molds. Inspired by 19th-century field guides and millennia of folklore, myths, legends, and occult writings, it brings a carefully curated collection of delectable morsels right to your gaming table. From agarikon, a favorite snack of nature spirits, to antler-growing yellow stagshorn, the Mycologist’s Primer provides thoroughly-researched and fully-illustrated information on 100 species of fungi, lichens, and slime molds. Whether you’re looking for a taste of mycological science or a whimsical charcuterie board of magic, gaming material, and world-building inspiration, this book is for you!  Each entry in Mycologist’s Primer provides basic biological information, notes on habitats and distribution, and practical advice on mushroom hunting. Wherever relevant, it also sprinkles in a dash of culinary and medicinal properties, together with information about toxicity. Each entry comes with extensive notes on magical properties, based on real-world folklore and ready to be transplanted into your games, novels, and imagination. Features Full-color hardcover book with 360 pages of mycology, legends, folklore, and tabletop roleplaying materials. System Agnostic! Use this book in all your roleplaying games! 100 illustrated, detailed descriptions of magically-inclined fungi, lichens, and slime molds from around the world. Concise, useful, and imaginative lore chapters on the basics of mycology, mushrooming, fungal magic, culinary mushrooms, mushroom ecology, and fungi-adjacent crafts and trades for worldbuilding. Quest prompts, random mushroom generation tables, fantastical fungi, magical and medicinal resources, and other tools for creating plot hooks, dangerous locations, legendary items, and more!