Introduction

Sporebound is a psychedelic punk RPG set in the 80s, placing American countercultures in the spotlight. An evil extradimensional, parasitic fungus is winding its tendrils into our world and exasperating humanity's decline in preparation for its ultimate takeover. You play an individual who has witnessed injustice, had contact with the extradimensional fungus opposing this takeover, and decided to partner up to take a stand against evil. Through the power of symbiosis and friendship, you might even succeed.

The first living being on land was Lichen, a symbiote of fungus and algae

Later there were plants, and forests, connected and supported by mycellium networks, a symbiote of fungus

Fungi were then symbiotes with animals, though often as parasites like Cordyceps

Why would it be a surprise if they were symbiotes and parasites of humans too?

In Sporebound, fungus is more than just mold, mushrooms, lichen. It’s the physical manifestation of The Mycos, otherworldly beings who have attempted to exert control on the earth over millions of years. Powerful, unknowable, only connected on the fringes of the physical world. But the influence they can wield is immense, especially through the Sporebound.

The Sporebound are those who were picked by the Mycos and work for them. The Mycos give them powers, strength, and a purpose. The requests of the Mycos are strange, sometimes contradictory to other Mycos. But they’re symbiotic with humans, and aren’t working against them. The Mycos are all aligned together, against the Blue Blight.

The enemies of the Sporebound are The Blighted. These are humans who did not pick to work for Mycos, and are instead parasitically infected. Their strongest Blighted enemies are The Consumed, directly controlled by the Blight, though they must hide themselves from the public eye. Their hands in the world are The Controlled, those infected while only having their actions subconsciously steered by the Mycos. Almost worse are the normal humans unwittingly working for The Blight, uninfected at all, doing the Blight's work for a paycheck.