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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 2401662" data-attributes="member: 8863"><p>The most fun monster I ever ran was the mimic that had an attitude.</p><p></p><p>I always thought mimics were just dumb dungeon monsters that PCs killed for xps and treasure. Anyway, the group encounters the mimic I placed in the dungeon I was running at the time, and when I cracked open the MM for the encounter, I noticed that mimics were listed as having a 10 Int and the ability to speak Common. So I decided to have some fun with that. </p><p></p><p>So the bard goes over to open what the players thought was a chest, and the mimic attacks. The cleric smacks it with his mace, the mimic grabs the mace with its adhesive ability, and yells, "Ow! That hurt, you bastards!" That really seemed to confuse the players. They tried apologizing to it, and asking it if it knew anything about the dungeon, but I ran it as being rude, insulting, obnoxious, and a bit paranoid. It complained about being woke up from a fine nap (and having its nice dreams interrupted), it absolutely refused to give the cleric his mace back, figuring the PCs would just start attacking again, and it didn't know much about the dungeon and was quite surly about being asked too. Finally, they decided to leave it alone, which was their loss, since there was a hidden treasure conceled underneath the mimic that they ended up missing out on. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious :]" data-shortname=":]" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Orius, post: 2401662, member: 8863"] The most fun monster I ever ran was the mimic that had an attitude. I always thought mimics were just dumb dungeon monsters that PCs killed for xps and treasure. Anyway, the group encounters the mimic I placed in the dungeon I was running at the time, and when I cracked open the MM for the encounter, I noticed that mimics were listed as having a 10 Int and the ability to speak Common. So I decided to have some fun with that. So the bard goes over to open what the players thought was a chest, and the mimic attacks. The cleric smacks it with his mace, the mimic grabs the mace with its adhesive ability, and yells, "Ow! That hurt, you bastards!" That really seemed to confuse the players. They tried apologizing to it, and asking it if it knew anything about the dungeon, but I ran it as being rude, insulting, obnoxious, and a bit paranoid. It complained about being woke up from a fine nap (and having its nice dreams interrupted), it absolutely refused to give the cleric his mace back, figuring the PCs would just start attacking again, and it didn't know much about the dungeon and was quite surly about being asked too. Finally, they decided to leave it alone, which was their loss, since there was a hidden treasure conceled underneath the mimic that they ended up missing out on. :] [/QUOTE]
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