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be useful. This often means the users need special
instruments to pre-process their new food before they
can digest it. For instance, people who are given the
power to digest wood still can’t “chew” a solid lump of
wood. They need to grind it down to sawdust before
they can swallow it. The fungi’s digestive changes
also don’t affect the taste of the new food. As a result,
victims often try to spice up or modify the food to
make it more palatable, with varying degrees of success.
Finally, the worst effect of this digestive replacement
is that the subject typically loses some or all ability to
process normal food and will henceforth be poisoned
an area with many heavy metals or other toxins, they
may be given filtration mechanisms to handle the load,
or even to break down likely chemical poisons into
carbohydrates and vitamins. A group of humans who
need to live in the deep forest or mountains for a while

who undergo digestive replacement come to lament
their condition, considering themselves monstrous
rather than the super-beings they were promised they’d
become.

may be given the ability to digest cellulose, allowing

GATE

them to survive by eating wood chips and leaves.

Price 75,000 gp; Slot none; Weight 2,500 lbs.; Capacity
100 charges; Usage 10 charges

Humans who are sent to a deserted island may be given
the power to drink sea water and excrete the salt safely,
or perhaps the capacity to digest sand or rock.
COST

The surgery is lengthy and painful, and recovery takes
at least a week (the process may be that short due to
the fungi’s amazing skill). The materials and surgical
supplies cost 350 gp.
AFTER-EFFEC TS

Humanoids who have undergone digestive replacement
look slightly different. Their body shape may be slightly

A gate is a physical item that sits in one place and cannot
be moved. When a creature passes through the gate, it
instantly teleports to a specific other gate that can be
anywhere or at any time. 10 charges are expended for
each creature thus transported, even if they go through
at the same instant. A gate can be anything from rocks
to golden pillars to a house with very precise angles
built into its walls and doors. Most gates recharge 1d10
charges each day, but a cosmic alignment can recharge
it completely.

distorted, or their skin may become a different color. A

MIST PROJECTOR

person who has been modified to be able to digest and

One-handed Medium ranged weapon
Price 12,000 gp; Proficiency exotic (firearm); Damage 8d6
cold; Critical —; Range 30 ft.; Weight 8 lbs.; Capacity
2 charges; Usage 1 charge

use toxins may take on a cyanotic tint to his skin, a
person who eats heavy metals may take on a sort of dull
leaden sheen, and so forth.

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by what was once a staple. In the end, many people

This device of the mi-go expels freezing mist in a cone

The fungi normally do not change the user’s mouth

when fired (a full-round action). Anything within a

or teeth, as humans often need to be able to speak to

30-foot cone is frozen over. Creatures within take 8d6