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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8890229" data-attributes="member: 6790260">As I think I have made clear in the past, I'm very keen on supporting player enthusiasm. So the questions that follow from this are:<ol> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">What do you want from playing a mimic? How will it contribute to your play experience?</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">How do you propose to deal with the extremely significant limitations of mimics? If you're an ordinary mimic, you don't have hands, you don't naturally learn languages (and you have severely reduced Intelligence), and you don't have any connection to social structures to address this stuff. That's going to make it very hard to be any kind of class, even a Barbarian.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ol">Are you willing to accept altered, reduced, or delayed mimic powers? We would of course need to discuss it beforehand, so this wouldn't be a mere fiat declaration from me.</li> </ol>If the player and I can work that out to our mutual satisfaction, then yes, I am 100% supportive of them playing a mimic. For my part, because of the complexities of implementing this monster (and other similar sorts of monsters) as player characters, I don't really see much benefit in a universal one-size-fits-all implementation, unless it's both really well-designed and well-liked by most people who want to play mimics. And, frankly, I'm kind of skeptical that that's feasible on the grand scale.</blockquote>