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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hriston" data-source="post: 8687719" data-attributes="member: 6787503">You say you've sussed it, but your character hasn't. If you know it's a mimic, then why are you standing within 15 feet of it where it can move and attack you in one turn? Why don't you declare an action to try to ascertain whether it's a mimic or not before blundering into combat with a creature that has not been noticed by anyone in the party? I'd say the decisions that have been described matter very much but on the whole are not very good.It's a bit much to accuse me of bad faith for having a monster that has been deliberately placed to be interacted with by the party work as intended. But in my defense, I'll share with you that the first thought that occurred to me upon reading the OP was that I would say to the player of the cleric something like, "So you think it's a mimic, but you don't know for certain. Do you realize that by attacking the "chest" you'd be starting combat with a creature that hasn't yet been actually noticed if it does indeed turn out to be a mimic and that you and the entire party will likely be surprised?" Then I'd let the player to revise their declaration if they wished. At my table, I don't like consequences for bad decisions to result from mismatched expectations of how the rules will be implemented anymore than you do.Okay, that's your point? Did I say something that relies on 5E using keywords?</blockquote>