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<blockquote data-quote="Alabast" data-source="post: 4404901" data-attributes="member: 61888">I agree with Khime.&nbsp; Mimics were never really used as combat encounters, they were just stupid monsters-traps meant to do some hit point damage to PCs whose players were silly enough to have not read the MM from front to back.&nbsp; If you want to use a shape-shifting monster that tricks the PCs, use a doppelganger instead.&nbsp; If you want an tempting-looking treasure chest to be more dangerous than it looks, just trap it. Mimics are relics of an old age when DMs were encouraged to inflict cheap damage on the PCs once in a while, just to... I dunno, keep them on their toes, I guess. I have no idea from what bowel of gaming philosophy hell that little nugget comes from. If I remember proplerly, 1st edition D&amp;D not only had monsters disguised as treasure chests, but it also had monsters that disguised themselves as walls, floors,ceilings, and stalagtites.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Alabast, post: 4404901, member: 61888"] I agree with Khime. Mimics were never really used as combat encounters, they were just stupid monsters-traps meant to do some hit point damage to PCs whose players were silly enough to have not read the MM from front to back. If you want to use a shape-shifting monster that tricks the PCs, use a doppelganger instead. If you want an tempting-looking treasure chest to be more dangerous than it looks, just trap it. Mimics are relics of an old age when DMs were encouraged to inflict cheap damage on the PCs once in a while, just to... I dunno, keep them on their toes, I guess. I have no idea from what bowel of gaming philosophy hell that little nugget comes from. If I remember proplerly, 1st edition D&D not only had monsters disguised as treasure chests, but it also had monsters that disguised themselves as walls, floors,ceilings, and stalagtites. [/QUOTE]

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