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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8682191" data-attributes="member: 22779">Yeah, I gotta admit, I'd get kinda shirty as a player if I cast Toll the Dead on the chest to see if it was a mimic, it turns out to actually be a mimic, but, it gets a surprise round of actions.  I mean, come on, that's a pretty dick move by the DM.  Now, if I tolled the chest and the floor in front of the door was the mimic?  Fair game.  But, when the thing I think is a trap turns out to be the exact trap that I suspect it is, I'm generally not going to be surprised by that fact.Now, if the chest was a polymorphed dragon that had been polymorphed into a really weak chest and the Toll the Dead shattered the chest, thus released the dragon?  Yeah, I might buy that as a surprise round.But, no, when something you are testing is actually the exact thing you are testing for, I'm going to get a bit annoyed if the DM declares that I'm surprised by being 100% right.</blockquote>