A compendium and an adventure for 5e

The Magic
Mosses

Thirty-four herbs to smoke, with wondrous powers.
And all the trouble that comes with them.

The world

The story of a herb with extraordinary magical powers runs through every age and every people of this world. Flowers that cure the most terrible ills, lichens that change your appearance, molds that grant elemental powers. Stories handed down until they turned into legend.

One person refused to stop at the legend. Spiro Asterion, a sylvan half-elf born in the forest city of Iefira, spent a lifetime chasing those stories down to the root. This compendium is his life’s work: the mosses, and their powers.

Control is what gets you! Every people of this world believes it can control anything. So the land became a resource, the seas trade routes, the mountains mines, the forests firewood and hunting grounds. But this stuff… these herbs are absolutely insane.

Inside the book

A complete compendium

34 magic mosses, each with its native biomes, rarity, effect — and the side effect nobody told you about.

Seven arcane categories

Chromatic, Metallic, Gem, Psychic, Elemental, Mythic, Spiritual. Every moss grows out of a different current of magic.

Complete foraging rules

d100 tables for eleven biomes and four outer planes. Foraging for mosses becomes a travel or downtime activity.

Artificial mosses

Crafting rules for combining different species and getting what nature never made — with all the risks that come with it.

The tools of the trade

Pipe, hookah or rolling paper: the rules for taking a moss — including the option to take it all in a single breath. Plus a new tool, a background, a spell and six magic items.

A companion one-shot

Not-So-Useless After All: an adventure for 3rd-level characters, with a dungeon, a map, new monsters and new items.

Flip through the pages

A look inside the compendium.

First chapter opening: the landscape of Phalia across a full page, and the story of Spiro Asterion

d100 foraging tables for the marine, underground, coastal and hill biomes

Third chapter opening: artificial mosses, with the table of crafting times and costs

Appendix: the magic items, from the Holocene Bong to Spiro’s Pipe

The mosses

Four spreads from the entries chapter.

Entries for Filonea, the leaf moss, and Crimson Whisper, the moss of seduction

Entries for Margheris, the copper moss, and Nephron Leaf, the gray moss

Entries for Polytherion, the emerald moss, and Amigdala, the ruby moss

Entry for Elderbloom, the moss of spirits, with the stat block of the Ancestral Spirit

The adventure

Not-So-Useless After All

The people of Homefrost are not easily impressed: every hero of the North has come through their clearing, and the twelve statues in the square remember them all. Then your party turns up — ragged, green, and the village laughing stock on arrival. A complete one-shot for 3rd-level characters, made of mockery, mead and the urge to prove everyone wrong.

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