The Botanist’s Compendium

The Flora Thread is dedicated to transforming the background flora of your game from static scenery into dynamic, meaningful content. The Flora Thread ensures that every unusual plant, rare fungus, and ancient tree holds a unique mechanical utility, risk, or piece of essential world lore.

Here, you find the knowledge required to integrate the living world into your game’s rules, rewarding players for their curiosity and giving GMs new tools for creating unexpected hazards and rewards.

This thread focuses on the systematic rules and lore of custom plant life:

• Alchemical Components: Guides on harvesting unique plants for use in crafting custom potions, poisons, or volatile reagents.

• Environmental Hazards: New plant-based creatures and unique environmental dangers (like specialized spores or paralyzing vines) that turn terrain into an encounter.

• Magical Resonances: Lore on plants that possess innate magical properties, detailing their ties to Deities or specific celestial events on the Time calendar.

• Healing & Survival: Custom rules for foraging, identifying, and preparing unique herbs for restorative effects or long-term survival in harsh environments.