{"id":68550,"date":"2026-04-08T11:05:36","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/getyourfunon.com\/shop\/product\/mycologists-primer\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T17:08:45","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T21:08:45","slug":"mycologists-primer","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/getyourfunon.com\/shop\/product\/mycologists-primer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mycologist&#8217;s Primer"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introducing the Mycologist\u2019s Primer, a system-agnostic illustrated guide to real-world magical mushrooms, lichens, and slime molds. Inspired by 19th-century field guides and millennia of folklore, myths, legends, and occult writings, it brings a carefully curated collection of delectable morsels right to your gaming table.<\/p>\n<p>From agarikon, a favorite snack of nature spirits, to antler-growing yellow stagshorn, the Mycologist\u2019s Primer provides thoroughly-researched and fully-illustrated information on 100 species of fungi, lichens, and slime molds. Whether you\u2019re looking for a taste of mycological science or a whimsical charcuterie board of magic, gaming material, and world-building inspiration, this book is for you! <\/p>\n<p>Each entry in Mycologist\u2019s Primer provides basic biological information, notes on habitats and distribution, and practical advice on mushroom hunting. Wherever relevant, it also sprinkles in a dash of culinary and medicinal properties, together with information about toxicity. Each entry comes with extensive notes on magical properties, based on real-world folklore and ready to be transplanted into your games, novels, and imagination.<\/p>\n<p>Features:<\/p>\n<p>    Full-color hardcover book with 360 pages of mycology, legends, folklore, and tabletop roleplaying materials.<br \/>\n    System Agnostic! Use this book in all your roleplaying games!<br \/>\n    100 illustrated, detailed descriptions of magically-inclined fungi, lichens, and slime molds from around the world.<br \/>\n    Concise, useful, and imaginative lore chapters on the basics of mycology, mushrooming, fungal magic, culinary mushrooms, mushroom ecology, and fungi-adjacent crafts and trades for worldbuilding.<br \/>\n    Quest prompts, random mushroom generation tables, fantastical fungi, magical and medicinal resources, and other tools for creating plot hooks, dangerous locations, legendary items, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":68551,"template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[689],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-68550","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-127-books","8":"first","9":"instock","10":"sale","11":"taxable","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/getyourfunon.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/68550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/getyourfunon.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/getyourfunon.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfunon.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/getyourfunon.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfunon.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=68550"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfunon.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=68550"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/getyourfunon.com\/shop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=68550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}