Mimics

[Richards]

Several years ago I wrote an article called "101 Mimic Disguises" for Mongoose's Signs & Portents magazine. It was printed in issue #38.

Johnathan

 

[jaerdaph]

Several years ago I wrote an article called "101 Mimic Disguises" for Mongoose's Signs & Portents magazine. It was printed in issue #38.

Johnathan

Yeah - I remember that now!

It can still be downloaded for free here:

Signs & Portents Roleplayer - 38

 

[Quantarum]

My fav was a cookie jar. Who got the cookie from the cookie jar? Stumpy of course! -Q.

 

[Hand of Evil]

My fav was a cookie jar. Who got the cookie from the cookie jar? Stumpy of course! -Q.

Look left for location.

 

[the Jester]

My favorite was a combo.

In an abandoned house full of stuff like you'd see in a Medieval episode of Hoarders, the pcs tracked a weird urban stalker creature that was invisible to you unless it was attacking you. As they fought through the place, they got attacked by a chair (mimic), some old ratty clothes (cloaker) and a carpet (trapper). It was one of the most desperate and surprise-filled combats I saw at low levels in 3e!

 

[TarionzCousin]

In Unearthed Arcana, I've used Mimics as computers, cars, a manhole with a cover, an ATM, and a coke machine dispenser.

Your "medieval fantasy" world is weird.

Several years ago I wrote an article called "101 Mimic Disguises" for Mongoose's Signs & Portents magazine. It was printed in issue #38.

And what is this article called "Inside the Chainmail Bra"? Hmmmm....

 

[Aeolius]

Every night, the parrot fish secretes a mucus cocoon to help mask its shape and scent from predators while it sleeps.

I used that as the inspiration for the mucus mimic, a fish whose malleable mucus cocoon changes shape to mimic the shape of creatures nearby.

 

[MonkeyDragon]

This thread is an excellent reminder for something I was going to stick in my campaign somewhere.

Mimic village!

Everything's a mimic! Big advanced mimic houses, regular mimic sheds and wagons, little baby mimics, mimics everywhere!

The idea was that a party fighting all those mimics would be suicide, but if they're not threataned, they were peaceful. The rest of the details would be worked out when I had a plot to work them with.

 

[Orius]

That mimic village is even weirder in that the standard D&D mimic has human intelligence and can talk.

 

[The Shaman]

A mimic fountain filled with a water elemental.