These Mushrooms are Glowing!

Classic dungeon master moves on Gelatinous Cube this week, as we consider Rosie's dingy encounter "These Mushrooms are Glowing!" 

The humble mushroom provides inspiration for all manner of folklore and fantasy. This time they're touched with a little magic to create a low-level trap that introduces an entire world. Then it's over to the Gelatinous Cube for a woodland trance party and the psychedelic offerings it yields. 

Full encounters here!

Lots of references this week:

Frank Dugan's excellent article on mycophobia and mycophilia:

Dugan, F. M. 2008. Fungi, folkways and fairy tales: mushrooms & mildews in stories, remedies & rituals,from Oberon to the Internet. North American Fungi 3( 7): 23-72.

Rosie also discussed her deep and abiding love for the Exile and Avernum series of games, created by Spiderweb Software. 

And finally if you would like to encounter a Machine Elf (seems inadvisable but you must follow your own path) you can find out more about them here. 

This Goblin Wears Lipstick!

Where else to start but with goblins? 

In the first episode of Gelatinous Cube we discuss Rosie's encounter, This Goblin Wears Lipstick! We discuss the importance of explicit clues, the demands of combat, and the alluring possibility of a goblin Glenn Close. Then we head deeper into the dungeon for an audience with a very chaotic Goblin King, as imagined by the Gelatinous Cube and David Bowie.  

Full encounter notes here.

Rosie designed this encounter as a prologue to the Mörk Borg scenario The Goblin Grinder, an excellent little module by Ripley Caldwell. Cheers Ripley!