6/15/2023 0 Comments Whitecap mushroomAlthough many species of mushrooms can be grown entirely in the dark, they’re decomposers and thus need to feed off of organic matter. Second, it doesn’t actually make that much sense. Since mushrooms can grow without light, they seem like an easy choice to fill the plant niche. Most material I’ve seen boils down to one organism: mushrooms. With just a fifth grade knowledge of food chains, you know you need a large base of plants for herbivores to eat and the herbivores are then eaten by carnivores. So, what is there for all of the creatures to eat underground? Aside from numerous civilizations, every D&D Monster Manual regardless of edition has an abundance of giant carnivores: Beholders, Darkmantles, Formian Giants, and Hook Horrors just to name a few. But even still, Forgotten Realms is guilty of most of the things I’m going to talk about. Also, I don’t want a bunch of people emailing me to tell me that in some obscure corner of Forgotten Realms cannon Drizzt mentions some delicious underground pear. I’m going to be taking a campaign setting agnostic perspective here, so you can run with this wherever your game happens to be set. Specifically I’m talking about their food. ![]() For all the life and activity down there, there sure isn’t a lot of information about what fuels these creatures. In this nefarious subterranean system they make their evil plots and wage brutal campaigns of conquest, unbeknownst to the surface dwellers above. There’s entire dark cities, Duergar fortresses, and Mindflayer laboratories all connected by a near endless network of tunnels, caverns, and cave systems. Some of D&D’s most iconic monsters and villains make their homes deep underground.
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