Graystalk Mushroom

A large gray mushroom which grow to almost a foot tall, graystalks have very few useful properties. Graystalks grow best in offal and carrion. One fully-grown graystalk provides a day's nutrition, but it comes with some serious side-effects. Eaten raw, graystalks are slightly poisonous, resulting in nausea. The creature who eats a graystalk must make a DC 12 Constitution check or be sickened for 24 hours. A person sickened by graystalk has vivid nightmares and gains no benefits to sleep. However, in the Underdark, sometimes the choice is dying from starvation or eating a graystalk.

Graystalks produce a peculiar odor which actually drives away some underdark predators. It is well-known that carrion crawlers won't approach a stand of graystalks unless provoked and caverns with an abundance of graystalks tend to be predator-free, an unusual find in the Underdark.

Mechanics & Inner Workings

Identify Check: DC 12

Item type

Consumable, Food / Drink

Rarity

Geography: Underdark and Subterranean locations