Player: "I start whistling as I use the outhouse." DM: "Roll for performance." Player: "....Uh, ok... 16?" DM: "Your tune is very catchy. The outhouse starts whistling too."
I played a one shot that was a murder mystery, but then it turned out the whole house was a mimic. I'd never killed a house before, it was pretty cool.
Thats incredibly Phantasy star Online 2 and Final fantasy 7 like I do like the idea of a Gigantic Mimic king or queen that can transform into a House or even Castle and has an entire army of smaller Mimic's
I did that once. The mimic was the house, but also the items in the house were baby mimics. So the hat rack in the room, a chandelier in the hall, or even a dresser is a mimic that will attack the group. Even finding a long dinning table with plates an food on it, and the group finds the plates an utensils attacking them as they try to eat or stay in the room too long, before the table also attacks body slamming targets. The idea was of a village calling for investigations into a abandoned manor that groups would go missing in, but finding no sign of why they went missing like bodies or such in the manor.
“The barkeep asked us why we carried weapons on us while in the bar” I said’ “Mimics.” The barkeep laughed, the party laughed, and the table laughed, we killed the table. It was a good time. (Not mine, just thought it was funny and very appropriate.)
You forgot that the "good" mimics will actually trade for alcohol in the old game. Other than that, the quickest way to make a group paranoid is to get jumped by a mimic. A chest a mimic...or is it? Just kidding it's actually that boulder right next to the chest. Points for pulling off a house mimic, because that just gets the players to burn down every single house they come across.
one of my evil guys had a pet mimic. the evil guy was a Changeling, btw.
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In our campaign we had our team befriend a greater mimic because we could see that it was a mimic based on it imitating a statue of one of our more self-centered party member's busts (yes bust. He got one carved of himself the pompous bastard) and it imitated a bust completely different party member. The bust was of our skeleton, whom carved one of himself before his undeath and we just prepared a bunch of spells and attacks before the mimic just went "hey wait a second, we can talk this out" in common. His name is Vinny and he often acts as home defense in exchange for free rent and food. He's one of our most prominent side characters
I had a monk with 18 strength and a ton of health, so when a mimic clamped on his arm, he just kinda pulled it back open so the mimic was very confused. The monk then picks up the mimic which becomes the group pet.
in my world the coins inside are the baby mimics so all the gold you take gets mixed in with your other coins and go dormant for 1d12 days after which the hatch and attack, and if they spent the coin the might get in a little trouble so i give a nature or survival check when looting mimics.
My DND meet a mimic in a dungeon. They were rather smart when dealing with it. They tested the chest first. Then lured it into another room in front of a sleeping guard monster. So if the boss called it they run right into it. It did take out one of the smaller boss for them. Then they saw it again at a gift shop working as a security guard who ate anyone who tried to rob the shop.
The group i play with is such a meme that my DM let one of the members use animal handling to tame it and allowed us to use it as an infinite storage unit that follows us around.
I love how rather than just explaining monsters away as "magic," the creators of Dnd actually put thought into giving even their most fantastical creatures somewhat believable biologies.
I really like how dark souls handled them. Instead of weakly "pseudopoding" you or continually biting you, they just roundhouse kick you into oblivion.
There are two other interpretations of a mimic I like: Punch mimic: www.artstation.com/artwork/rAzd2 Mimicrab: fish-undead-rising.fandom.com/wiki/Mimicrab
One of the 'greater mimics' I have in a current game pretends to be a covered wagon. Unlike other Mimics, it has learned patience... it doesn't just stick the first thing to come along, and waits till your all alone. It even mastered its form well enough so it can function as a wagon, if your silly enough not to question why a perfectly good wagon is sitting abandoned at the crossroads. I hope to keep up the charade for a few weeks, long enough for players to forget they even have a wagon.
I have a recurring magic shopkeep who’s cart full of goods is actually a Mimic that is trained to eat shoplifters. It’s my favorite shop I’ve ever created.
@@the_egg_ No, since I didn't get permission :( I ended up giving the shopkeeper a familiar who had a similar mechanic. IG he noticed his stuff was getting lifted and when the rouge when in, well she learned her lesson
Im glad most DMs use Mimics as a fun diversion rather than a serious encounter. Though in regards to the video, Im surprised the fact that mimics are intelligent was never mentioned. One of the most fun moments in my time as a player was laughing hysterically at our Barbarians (successful) attempt at intimidating a Mimic disguised as a big archway.
Made a one-shot story in my main campaign where the party was on their way to some ruins and came across "The Wayfarer's Inn". It was a travelling inn that would set up in remote areas and house all sorts of people, from villains to heroes, some monster/beast folk, etc. . . The inn as you have no doubt already guessed was in fact a greater mimic, one who's insides were filled with other lesser mimics for the furniture, and shape shifters for the staff. The inn was neutral territory run by a very powerful wizard whom was killed by one of the patrons. So the party is tasked to find and expose the killer before the inns residents decide to just eat everyone. The whole thing is this (IMO) awesome mix of Clue, Monster house, and Hotel California. The party loved it for how out there the one-shot was, and they got to keep one of the mimics as a pet/travelling chest. :D
I think a port-a-poty/bathroom Mimic is the worse one yet. At least in a dungeon, you're on edge about most things, and you know to inspect everything bigger then a baseball. But when you have to hit the bathroom, you're just focused on going to the bathroom, so you don't know something is wrong until you feel the first nibble on your.....bits
My favorite mimic variant is the modern mimic. It's an Amazon box, but that Amazon logo with the smiley face pointing from A to Z? It's got fucking teeth and it's going to eat you!
I liked how these things featured in other media. In Dark Souls, they're treasure chests that could contain essential items. In Prey, they could be anything and everywhere.
My first experience was dark souls 1, around 8 or 9 years ago, i had finlly made it to a place called Anor Londo, worked so hard to get inside, literally died a hundred times to asshole silver knights with giant bows, get inside then a freakin chest eats me alive 😐
There are two other interpretations of a mimic I like: Punch mimic: www.artstation.com/artwork/rAzd2 Mimicrab: fish-undead-rising.fandom.com/wiki/Mimicrab
In our setting, mimics are like hermit crabs. They start out small, like coin purses, and as they get older and larger, they have to move from the small containers to larger containers. The mimic is just the creature inside the container that magically bonds with it.
Most interesting mimic I've ever heard about was the Luggage from Discworld. Pratchett said he was inspired by a woman with a suitcase on wheels. But when you read about it luring a hero with gold and later swallowing people whole, you know what he was thinking. Also the best mods I ever used for the Elder Scrolls had a Luggage.
Eeeeh. The Luggage isn't really what I would call a Mimic however. It's a magical construct made from wood taken from a sapient tree. While it can manifest teeth, hundreds of tiny feet to move around, and occasionally a tongue. It can't really shift it's physical form to anything other than a large wooden chest. That and the aforementioned teeth and occasional tongue are heavily implied to still be made of wood in some way. It also has some rather interesting other abilities, like its internal space is probably some kind of pocket dimension, any clothing placed inside of it usually come back cleaned, dried and pressed ECT.
“Now that’s odd, I’m sure there was only one beer keg in this room...huh, maybe someone just put it there while I was away.” The words of a careless barkeeper who ended up being a mimic’s lunch. Always be extra mindful of what is in the room no matter how mundane it all may seem.
Imagine the constant paranoia and trauma of adventurers who've encountered them often... Even when safe in their lodgings constantly checking doors and objects...
I really like moment from review of one of the darksouls games, where author pointed out that for some reason chest with limbs always kicks ass of eldritch fire demon.
I once played a campaign where a litch hid in the center of a forest and created a curse around his base that drew in mimics, that’s not the worst part though. The hundreds of mimics would get increasingly more powerful the closer they got to the fortress . By powerful I mean they could imitate more things. The mimics on edge of the Forrest could only imitate logs and rocks while the mimics closer to the litch’s fortress could imitate things like packs of wolves or the grass or even party members. There was one really great moment where we spotted a bear roaming around and hid in the bushes while we watched it. A deer ran past the bear and it’s side split open to reveal a mouth that promptly ate the deer. The party was so paranoid that we killed most large animals on site if we where suspicious of them from that point onward.
Everybody Loves Large Chests by Neven Illiev is pretty fun. Series of books about a mimic. Rather fun to have an unrepentant villain as a main character. It is a little Harem-y but it's an asexual non humanoid creature assembling a harem it's completely uninterested in, which is a recurring joke.
One of my favorite dungeon ideas that I wish to run one day is the Mimic Queen dungeon. An influx of Mimics are being found on the outskirts of a large town the adventurers visit. Once the cave has been found, they delve in to find areas with mimics, ropers, and a goblin colony who wear knives on their feet and head to protect themselves. The goblins will also have magic items that should be disproportionately useful for such a small tribe. Getting to the center of the dungeon, the adventurers find a ritual site. Dead bodies litter then ground and in the center is a dais with a massive stone and iron cage hanging above ready to engulf the whole ritual. On the dais are Mimic “eggs.” Young mimics too small to pass as anything more than a shoe. Once the party gets close, unsurprisingly, the dais turns into a fairly large mimic. It would seem the people wanted to try to capture and breed mimics for some purpose. As the battle rages, two adventurers get grabbed by the tendrils. As they’re pulled in, there is a loud impact, like 2 dozen hammers slamming against a wall. The party looks up and the giant cage drops, crushing the mimic dais and it’s brood, revealing itself as the true Mimic Queen. The bars invert to long, stone covered tentacles, the cage roof splits into a massive maw, and, on its back, dozens upon dozens of mimic eggs. Have fun with this idea and, done right, your players will never trust a chair, bed, door, or table ever again.
unknown organism I’m planning on running a mimic queen one shot in a little bit where they enter a dungeon that is mainly just one long path with very few branches. As they get deeper they find better and better loot but also acid starts dripping from walls and stuff like that. Eventually they reach the end only to awaken the whole dungeon and for pretty much all of the loot they got during the dungeon to burst out into small mimics. The end of the dungeon is a time based escape from the dungeon which is now on around a 45 degree angle from where it was originally so everything is difficult terrain and they are getting forced out by a massive stomach acid wave and a small army of mimics only to have to slip out the entrance before it closes and they are swallowed.
unknown organism I was thinking of doing that, and feel free to of course, but I decided against it as it would be too difficult for the average party levels I end up playing in, and it reminded me a little too much of Empire Strikes Back. Have fun with it though.
Used a mimic once on a group that were poking around a portion of a derelict underground highway. They had been beaten over the head by hobgoblins, and found a cart deserted at a waypoint. Used it to carry their supplies, loot from the hobgoblins, a prisoner they had taken, and the wounded rogue. They didn’t find the prisoner or the rogue after they came back from clearing out a partial cave in. The rogue was very good and didn’t give anything away until the group finally realized the cart was about 20% larger than before
You left out my favorite ambush monster: the Cloaker. It is somewhere between a mimic and darkmantle. When Active it appears like a flying furry manta ray. When resting it looks like a heavy fur-lined [or sometimes soft leather] cloak with the barbel/horns of the ray forming the clasps. The base form waits in wardrobes and treasure hordes for adventurers to put it on. It then strikes, enveloping them like a cocoon. In ravenloft there is a species that can form a symbiotic relationship, It feeds by healing its host's wounds, glowing brightly in the process.
How plausible would it be to design a quest cantered on a town made almost entirely of mimics that came together to effectively create a literal tourist trap
Mimics also exist in FFXIV. In these procedurally generated dungeons called "deep dungeons" if you try to open one and don't kill it in time, it shrinks your hp pool by a percentage and leaves a nasty damage over time effect on you that lasts for 9 minutes. Nasty little things.
As a DM, my favorite homebrewed dungeon was a labyrinth of nothing but mimics and mimic-like monsters created by a crazed archmage who transplanted his mind/soul into a humanoid mimic. I called it the Living Labyrinth, and I took no small amount of sadistic glee when my group of veteran players had a hard time due to walking in blind. And for those who are wondering, they didn't bother to investigate the well-known, but highly deadly dungeon in the town about a day's travel away from said dungeon, where they had spent several days stocking up on weapons, armor, and other provisions, even after offering up several opportunities to do so.
I might try to get a pet mimic, if your DM allows it I recommend playing a warforged / other homebrew it won't want to eat (skeleton, cyborg, etc) then play ranger or druid with animal handlinng.
I heard a theory that all the weird object Pokemon are like mimics. They're learning to hunt humans and figured out what stuff we like to be around, so they've learned how to take that stuff's form and wait until a human comes by and lets their guard down. Laugh all you want, but I heard about a guy from Alola who got eaten by ice cream.
We had a player that got cursed to turn into a mimic, ended up tricking some Kobolds to think that he had always been there, even when moving and attacking the other Kobolds, they just thought it was a normal chest that sometimes ate them. They even got some cool buffs for eating certain things (Like before, they had eaten a rat and got a nat 20 on con so if they ate a rat, they healed slightly), and if they were able to convince themselves something was a rat (Required a roll) they could get the same benefit.
I think the exploring series is spying on me. When I got into SCP, they started doing SCP. Now, I just got into D&D and now he is doing D&D. *sweating*
Oh God I'm going to steal that statue idea. Just imagine: the homeless population begins to slowly dwindle in a major city but the guards turn a blind eye because of a lack of bodies and, hey, less homeless in the streets. That is until people's pets, a few guards, and even a few runaway children disappear. Thus the party gets begged to solve their disappearences, leading eventually to a massive stone statue garden depicting heroes from ages past each carved by a mysterious artisan hundreds of years ago. What is quickly revealed is a mimic had replaced one about a hundred years ago and ever so slowly grew until it comprised the entire stone garden... GOD that'd be RAD
Nice idea, if you want more inspiration look up Oblex if you haven't before. I think it has potential to create even more interesting scenarios than mimics can.
you see, the way i deal with mimics is: if a chest has the probability of being a mimic, i whack it 4 times with a crowbar. if it yells, we kill it, if the lid breaks, we loot it
I like to homebrew stuff, and just yesterday I homebrewed a pet mimic. It is smarter than most, so I gave it 7 Int and the ability to understand common. It also had a serious addiction to candies, so it got a lot of cavities and had to have his teeth removed, poor guy. He also gained a bit of weight, so he has a skate board to try and encourage exercise. Hasn't been working, but at least he's a bit faster.
A party walks into a tavern and the bar keep asks about their weapons. The party simply says "Mimics." The party laughs, the bar keep laughs, the table laughs, the stools laugh, the kegs laugh, the tavern laughs, everyone starts screaming.
Player: "I start whistling as I use the outhouse."
DM: "Roll for performance."
Player: "....Uh, ok... 16?"
DM: "Your tune is very catchy. The outhouse starts whistling too."
RUN YOU FOOLS
Brilliant
Septic Mimic a rare breed of mimic that eats poop.
i was wondering why the water was so warm...
@@Michael-fd1gx so a overall useful mimic
I played a one shot that was a murder mystery, but then it turned out the whole house was a mimic. I'd never killed a house before, it was pretty cool.
Thats incredibly Phantasy star Online 2 and Final fantasy 7 like
I do like the idea of a Gigantic Mimic king or queen that can transform into a House or even Castle and has an entire army of smaller Mimic's
I did that once. The mimic was the house, but also the items in the house were baby mimics. So the hat rack in the room, a chandelier in the hall, or even a dresser is a mimic that will attack the group. Even finding a long dinning table with plates an food on it, and the group finds the plates an utensils attacking them as they try to eat or stay in the room too long, before the table also attacks body slamming targets. The idea was of a village calling for investigations into a abandoned manor that groups would go missing in, but finding no sign of why they went missing like bodies or such in the manor.
Kinda remind me of Monster House, or Hell House in FF7
The whole house? Yikes that must be a really ancient greater mimic.
That's genius. I love that.
“The barkeep asked us why we carried weapons on us while in the bar”
I said’ “Mimics.” The barkeep laughed, the party laughed, and the table laughed, we killed the table. It was a good time.
(Not mine, just thought it was funny and very appropriate.)
Lol
I've seen that meme/joke
thats older than time itself
classic
What did the table do to them
Its mouth says: "I'M A MONSTER THAT SHALL DEVOUR THE ENTIRE WORLD"
Its eyes say: "I am a cute chest, look at me!"
Seems deliberate.
DM: So you touch the chest? *smirk*
Wizard: I CAST FIREBALL!!!
DM: You successfully destroyed the chest and any treasure inside
Party: ... ... ...
Of course! Fireball solves everything! Yeah!
Couldn't have been too valuable if it was all flammable.
@@Sara3346 Scrolls are pretty valuable
Me: *puts hand in chest*
Dungeon Master: *evil laughter*
Dude i had your same nickname on youtube like a month ago what are the chances lol
Modern day mimics take the form of Amazon delivery boxes sat on doorsteps.
@@ace_wash8363 feel sorry for the mimics tbh they just want food.
You forgot that the "good" mimics will actually trade for alcohol in the old game.
Other than that, the quickest way to make a group paranoid is to get jumped by a mimic. A chest a mimic...or is it? Just kidding it's actually that boulder right next to the chest. Points for pulling off a house mimic, because that just gets the players to burn down every single house they come across.
one of my evil guys had a pet mimic. the evil guy was a Changeling, btw.
In our campaign we had our team befriend a greater mimic because we could see that it was a mimic based on it imitating a statue of one of our more self-centered party member's busts (yes bust. He got one carved of himself the pompous bastard) and it imitated a bust completely different party member.
The bust was of our skeleton, whom carved one of himself before his undeath and we just prepared a bunch of spells and attacks before the mimic just went "hey wait a second, we can talk this out" in common.
His name is Vinny and he often acts as home defense in exchange for free rent and food. He's one of our most prominent side characters
My god, that artwork at 1:17 is amazing. Forget toothy Mimics, Mimics that just lay you out with a fist are in.
Maybe that's how they get all those teeth? They just knock them out of some poor fool's mouth and install them inside?
When you're just walking and all of a sudden you get b*tchslapped by a chest
* B O N K *
Just you wait til' the mimic pulls a gun.
I had a monk with 18 strength and a ton of health, so when a mimic clamped on his arm, he just kinda pulled it back open so the mimic was very confused. The monk then picks up the mimic which becomes the group pet.
in my world the coins inside are the baby mimics so all the gold you take gets mixed in with your other coins and go dormant for 1d12 days after which the hatch and attack, and if they spent the coin the might get in a little trouble so i give a nature or survival check when looting mimics.
That's a really cool addition
This is grand!
I can't help but picture little 'baby' mimic's turning into tiny chests like those found holding rings.
Diabolical. You monster. Great idea.
*insert comment about money bad Communism good*
@@concept5631 i mean its true regardless of mimics :3
My DND meet a mimic in a dungeon. They were rather smart when dealing with it. They tested the chest first. Then lured it into another room in front of a sleeping guard monster. So if the boss called it they run right into it. It did take out one of the smaller boss for them. Then they saw it again at a gift shop working as a security guard who ate anyone who tried to rob the shop.
The group i play with is such a meme that my DM let one of the members use animal handling to tame it and allowed us to use it as an infinite storage unit that follows us around.
"Amazing chest ahead"
[Dark Souls flashbacks]
Wait how they comment this 2 days ago when the video came out 2 minutes ago??
Talk about dedicated fan
In the halls of madness, dwells a mad philosopher
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Once you open it, there is no going back
That grab attack tho
Fun fact: Im a Mimic detector. I simply touch somthing, and most of the time it bites me for no reason.
I love how rather than just explaining monsters away as "magic," the creators of Dnd actually put thought into giving even their most fantastical creatures somewhat believable biologies.
Mimics have mastered the art of Gmod Prophunt.
I really like how dark souls handled them. Instead of weakly "pseudopoding" you or continually biting you, they just roundhouse kick you into oblivion.
There are two other interpretations of a mimic I like:
Punch mimic: www.artstation.com/artwork/rAzd2
Mimicrab: fish-undead-rising.fandom.com/wiki/Mimicrab
Dark souls mimics are horrifying. Why do they have L E G S
@@notrod5341 To chase you better in your dreams!
@@notrod5341 To strut their way towards you to devour you whole likw the girlbosses they are
One of the 'greater mimics' I have in a current game pretends to be a covered wagon. Unlike other Mimics, it has learned patience... it doesn't just stick the first thing to come along, and waits till your all alone. It even mastered its form well enough so it can function as a wagon, if your silly enough not to question why a perfectly good wagon is sitting abandoned at the crossroads.
I hope to keep up the charade for a few weeks, long enough for players to forget they even have a wagon.
I have a recurring magic shopkeep who’s cart full of goods is actually a Mimic that is trained to eat shoplifters. It’s my favorite shop I’ve ever created.
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Can I use that? I have a rather irritating rouge who need to learn that my karma system is a force to be reckoned with.
@@BlueDoubleSharp did you ever use it?
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No, since I didn't get permission :(
I ended up giving the shopkeeper a familiar who had a similar mechanic. IG he noticed his stuff was getting lifted and when the rouge when in, well
she learned her lesson
"Oh no! Any object whatsoever! Or an empty room! Or darkness!"
Im glad most DMs use Mimics as a fun diversion rather than a serious encounter.
Though in regards to the video, Im surprised the fact that mimics are intelligent was never mentioned.
One of the most fun moments in my time as a player was laughing hysterically at our Barbarians (successful) attempt at intimidating a Mimic disguised as a big archway.
Made a one-shot story in my main campaign where the party was on their way to some ruins and came across "The Wayfarer's Inn". It was a travelling inn that would set up in remote areas and house all sorts of people, from villains to heroes, some monster/beast folk, etc. . .
The inn as you have no doubt already guessed was in fact a greater mimic, one who's insides were filled with other lesser mimics for the furniture, and shape shifters for the staff.
The inn was neutral territory run by a very powerful wizard whom was killed by one of the patrons. So the party is tasked to find and expose the killer before the inns residents decide to just eat everyone.
The whole thing is this (IMO) awesome mix of Clue, Monster house, and Hotel California.
The party loved it for how out there the one-shot was, and they got to keep one of the mimics as a pet/travelling chest. :D
"You see a chest in the corner of the room."
"... Is the chain curved or straight?"
This should have so many more likes. #sunbros
5:10 imagine going to the toilette and being eaten starting from your junk or bottom depending on the situation
Mimic takes the form of a mirror. You don't know anything is amiss until your reflection moves on its own.
Amazing keep the lore coming.
I think a port-a-poty/bathroom Mimic is the worse one yet. At least in a dungeon, you're on edge about most things, and you know to inspect everything bigger then a baseball.
But when you have to hit the bathroom, you're just focused on going to the bathroom, so you don't know something is wrong until you feel the first nibble on your.....bits
Treasure chest mimics are still my most favorite mimic but sometimes people find clever ways to create other typs of mimics.
My favorite mimic variant is the modern mimic. It's an Amazon box, but that Amazon logo with the smiley face pointing from A to Z? It's got fucking teeth and it's going to eat you!
I liked how these things featured in other media. In Dark Souls, they're treasure chests that could contain essential items. In Prey, they could be anything and everywhere.
if someone in your adventuring party says "did the ceiling just move?" it's already too late.
That quote is brilliant.
Imagine going on an epic quest just to get slaughtered by a box
Happens to the best of us
My first experience was dark souls 1, around 8 or 9 years ago, i had finlly made it to a place called Anor Londo, worked so hard to get inside, literally died a hundred times to asshole silver knights with giant bows, get inside then a freakin chest eats me alive 😐
Greater mimic takes on the form of an inn with the name California on the sign :)
There are two other interpretations of a mimic I like:
Punch mimic: www.artstation.com/artwork/rAzd2
Mimicrab: fish-undead-rising.fandom.com/wiki/Mimicrab
In our setting, mimics are like hermit crabs. They start out small, like coin purses, and as they get older and larger, they have to move from the small containers to larger containers. The mimic is just the creature inside the container that magically bonds with it.
That thumbnail mimic looks like an absolute friend waiting for a treat
Ever since I've played Darksoul chests is never the same for me.
Glad to see you getting around to my favorite Boxxy boy.
Most interesting mimic I've ever heard about was the Luggage from Discworld.
Pratchett said he was inspired by a woman with a suitcase on wheels. But when you read about it luring a hero with gold and later swallowing people whole, you know what he was thinking.
Also the best mods I ever used for the Elder Scrolls had a Luggage.
Eeeeh. The Luggage isn't really what I would call a Mimic however. It's a magical construct made from wood taken from a sapient tree. While it can manifest teeth, hundreds of tiny feet to move around, and occasionally a tongue. It can't really shift it's physical form to anything other than a large wooden chest. That and the aforementioned teeth and occasional tongue are heavily implied to still be made of wood in some way. It also has some rather interesting other abilities, like its internal space is probably some kind of pocket dimension, any clothing placed inside of it usually come back cleaned, dried and pressed ECT.
“Now that’s odd, I’m sure there was only one beer keg in this room...huh, maybe someone just put it there while I was away.”
The words of a careless barkeeper who ended up being a mimic’s lunch. Always be extra mindful of what is in the room no matter how mundane it all may seem.
i hear there are some mimics that can be bargained with if you provide food (usually meat), but are not afraid too eat you if you are injured badly.
Ran into pests like that in parasite eve way back in the day.
Great video! My dm tossed a mimic into our last campaign. I love your DnD vids and would love a vid on the Drow!
Imagine the constant paranoia and trauma of adventurers who've encountered them often...
Even when safe in their lodgings constantly checking doors and objects...
I really like moment from review of one of the darksouls games, where author pointed out that for some reason chest with limbs always kicks ass of eldritch fire demon.
The third monster manual?
That's a wierd demotion for one D&D's most iconic monsters.
I once played a campaign where a litch hid in the center of a forest and created a curse around his base that drew in mimics, that’s not the worst part though. The hundreds of mimics would get increasingly more powerful the closer they got to the fortress . By powerful I mean they could imitate more things. The mimics on edge of the Forrest could only imitate logs and rocks while the mimics closer to the litch’s fortress could imitate things like packs of wolves or the grass or even party members.
There was one really great moment where we spotted a bear roaming around and hid in the bushes while we watched it. A deer ran past the bear and it’s side split open to reveal a mouth that promptly ate the deer. The party was so paranoid that we killed most large animals on site if we where suspicious of them from that point onward.
Everybody gangsta until the chest starts roundhouse kicking.
Great video! I always love these sort of explorations
Y'know I think you should do a exploring series on Frank Herbert's Dune considering there is a alot in the universe
Everybody Loves Large Chests by Neven Illiev is pretty fun. Series of books about a mimic. Rather fun to have an unrepentant villain as a main character.
It is a little Harem-y but it's an asexual non humanoid creature assembling a harem it's completely uninterested in, which is a recurring joke.
Badlucksink I loved that web novel! You forgot to mention the series is mainly a dark comedy.
I need to catch up on that, it's been a long while.
So good! I was hoping someone would mention it!
I love mimics! I make all kinds of boxes into them with polymer clay. Probably my fave thing to make!
One of my favorite dungeon ideas that I wish to run one day is the Mimic Queen dungeon. An influx of Mimics are being found on the outskirts of a large town the adventurers visit. Once the cave has been found, they delve in to find areas with mimics, ropers, and a goblin colony who wear knives on their feet and head to protect themselves. The goblins will also have magic items that should be disproportionately useful for such a small tribe.
Getting to the center of the dungeon, the adventurers find a ritual site. Dead bodies litter then ground and in the center is a dais with a massive stone and iron cage hanging above ready to engulf the whole ritual. On the dais are Mimic “eggs.” Young mimics too small to pass as anything more than a shoe. Once the party gets close, unsurprisingly, the dais turns into a fairly large mimic. It would seem the people wanted to try to capture and breed mimics for some purpose. As the battle rages, two adventurers get grabbed by the tendrils. As they’re pulled in, there is a loud impact, like 2 dozen hammers slamming against a wall. The party looks up and the giant cage drops, crushing the mimic dais and it’s brood, revealing itself as the true Mimic Queen. The bars invert to long, stone covered tentacles, the cage roof splits into a massive maw, and, on its back, dozens upon dozens of mimic eggs.
Have fun with this idea and, done right, your players will never trust a chair, bed, door, or table ever again.
I might try something like that but the true mimic queen will be the entire dungeon
unknown organism I’m planning on running a mimic queen one shot in a little bit where they enter a dungeon that is mainly just one long path with very few branches. As they get deeper they find better and better loot but also acid starts dripping from walls and stuff like that. Eventually they reach the end only to awaken the whole dungeon and for pretty much all of the loot they got during the dungeon to burst out into small mimics. The end of the dungeon is a time based escape from the dungeon which is now on around a 45 degree angle from where it was originally so everything is difficult terrain and they are getting forced out by a massive stomach acid wave and a small army of mimics only to have to slip out the entrance before it closes and they are swallowed.
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unknown organism I was thinking of doing that, and feel free to of course, but I decided against it as it would be too difficult for the average party levels I end up playing in, and it reminded me a little too much of Empire Strikes Back. Have fun with it though.
6:20 OH GOD HE'S GOT AIRPODS IN HE CAN'T HEAR US
The airpods are also mimics.
Used a mimic once on a group that were poking around a portion of a derelict underground highway. They had been beaten over the head by hobgoblins, and found a cart deserted at a waypoint. Used it to carry their supplies, loot from the hobgoblins, a prisoner they had taken, and the wounded rogue. They didn’t find the prisoner or the rogue after they came back from clearing out a partial cave in.
The rogue was very good and didn’t give anything away until the group finally realized the cart was about 20% larger than before
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Me who only knows mimics from terraria: ah yes mimics from where was it... DnD?
You left out my favorite ambush monster: the Cloaker. It is somewhere between a mimic and darkmantle. When Active it appears like a flying furry manta ray. When resting it looks like a heavy fur-lined [or sometimes soft leather] cloak with the barbel/horns of the ray forming the clasps. The base form waits in wardrobes and treasure hordes for adventurers to put it on. It then strikes, enveloping them like a cocoon.
In ravenloft there is a species that can form a symbiotic relationship, It feeds by healing its host's wounds, glowing brightly in the process.
Back at it yo
Everyone is gangsta until the chest starts running.
Dark Souls Players: Mimics😑
D&D Players: You know of them?
Dark Souls Players: Not from this realm
God of war reference
"Amazing chest ahead, touch with both hands."
giggity
Man, I don't know what's up with your voice, but it's so good to hear.
Ropers are freaking terrifying. The rogue was scouting ahead, got nabbed, and was eaten before anyone could reach him.
Whenever I think about mimics, I always think of the mimics from Dark Cloud
3am squad where you at
Yooo was poppin
Hey my guy
Eyyy
Ayyye
What up?
So how do you check to see if a room or archway is a mimic?
This is giving me wonderful ideas for my campaign
How plausible would it be to design a quest cantered on a town made almost entirely of mimics that came together to effectively create a literal tourist trap
The most terrifying mimic is the piano in Super Mario 64
Mimics also exist in FFXIV. In these procedurally generated dungeons called "deep dungeons" if you try to open one and don't kill it in time, it shrinks your hp pool by a percentage and leaves a nasty damage over time effect on you that lasts for 9 minutes. Nasty little things.
As a DM, my favorite homebrewed dungeon was a labyrinth of nothing but mimics and mimic-like monsters created by a crazed archmage who transplanted his mind/soul into a humanoid mimic. I called it the Living Labyrinth, and I took no small amount of sadistic glee when my group of veteran players had a hard time due to walking in blind. And for those who are wondering, they didn't bother to investigate the well-known, but highly deadly dungeon in the town about a day's travel away from said dungeon, where they had spent several days stocking up on weapons, armor, and other provisions, even after offering up several opportunities to do so.
Imagine an entire dungeon wherin everything inside including the rooms were mimics
And the nearby town as well...
Banjo-Kazooie flashbacks intensify.
The thing that separate good DM and Evil DM
I might try to get a pet mimic, if your DM allows it I recommend playing a warforged / other homebrew it won't want to eat (skeleton, cyborg, etc) then play ranger or druid with animal handlinng.
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Chest opens, sees teeth. Thanks Dark Souls
I heard a theory that all the weird object Pokemon are like mimics. They're learning to hunt humans and figured out what stuff we like to be around, so they've learned how to take that stuff's form and wait until a human comes by and lets their guard down.
Laugh all you want, but I heard about a guy from Alola who got eaten by ice cream.
Hell yeah, so happy you are doing DnD. Hopefully the series does well.
2:30 weirdly cute
I’ve been waiting for this
We had a player that got cursed to turn into a mimic, ended up tricking some Kobolds to think that he had always been there, even when moving and attacking the other Kobolds, they just thought it was a normal chest that sometimes ate them. They even got some cool buffs for eating certain things (Like before, they had eaten a rat and got a nat 20 on con so if they ate a rat, they healed slightly), and if they were able to convince themselves something was a rat (Required a roll) they could get the same benefit.
One of my favorites alongside Darkmantles.
Nothing to raise your heartbeat to 180 like a biome mimic booking it towards you
I think the exploring series is spying on me. When I got into SCP, they started doing SCP. Now, I just got into D&D and now he is doing D&D. *sweating*
I like to consider the Mimic as the Pitbull of the Doppelganger. They leave no evidence.
Terraria mimics scare me when they appear
🤩😂 these wud be such a drag tbh
SpongeBob and Patrick technically encountered a mimic when they tried to get ice cream from that old woman.
Oh God I'm going to steal that statue idea. Just imagine: the homeless population begins to slowly dwindle in a major city but the guards turn a blind eye because of a lack of bodies and, hey, less homeless in the streets. That is until people's pets, a few guards, and even a few runaway children disappear. Thus the party gets begged to solve their disappearences, leading eventually to a massive stone statue garden depicting heroes from ages past each carved by a mysterious artisan hundreds of years ago. What is quickly revealed is a mimic had replaced one about a hundred years ago and ever so slowly grew until it comprised the entire stone garden...
GOD that'd be RAD
Nice idea, if you want more inspiration look up Oblex if you haven't before. I think it has potential to create even more interesting scenarios than mimics can.
My dad tried to surprise my sister, mother, and me with a mimic. He was pretty upset when I know that chest next to the disarmed man was one.
you see, the way i deal with mimics is: if a chest has the probability of being a mimic, i whack it 4 times with a crowbar. if it yells, we kill it, if the lid breaks, we loot it
use 1 mimic and forevermore your party will poke every chest with a 10 foot pole before touching it
I like to homebrew stuff, and just yesterday I homebrewed a pet mimic.
It is smarter than most, so I gave it 7 Int and the ability to understand common. It also had a serious addiction to candies, so it got a lot of cavities and had to have his teeth removed, poor guy. He also gained a bit of weight, so he has a skate board to try and encourage exercise. Hasn't been working, but at least he's a bit faster.
A party walks into a tavern and the bar keep asks about their weapons. The party simply says "Mimics." The party laughs, the bar keep laughs, the table laughs, the stools laugh, the kegs laugh, the tavern laughs, everyone starts screaming.
This video gave me the idea to make a friendly greater mimic that serves as an actual tavern
I think D&D and the British Broadcasting Company would make literally anything a character.
Good episode