D&D 5E (2014) What, exactly, does a Mimic look like in its natural state?

[Umbran]

Maybe they don't have a natural form, per se.

Either that or they look just like Bob, from Accounting.

 

[Nergal Pendragon]

Maybe they don't have a natural form, per se.

Either that or they look just like Bob, from Accounting.

You mean they're Star Spawn?

 

[ranger69]

Three legged, one leg with a hoof, one leg with a foot, and one leg with a birds foot. Three arms, one with a hand, one with a flipper, and one with a paw. Four eyes, one humanoid, one snakelike, one feline, one birdlike. About as tall as a Halfling. With hair, or without. Has male genitalia, or female, or both, or none. Body is a sphere, or a cone, or a rectangle. It has three ears, one humanoid, one catlike, one doglike. It doesn't have a mouth, but rather communicates through using sounds from its three noses. One nose is humanoid, one resembles a small elephants trunk, the third a pigs snout. It's natural colouring is Stewart Tartan.
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Or whatever the DM decides.

 

[TarionzCousin]

In Tiny Tina's D&D DLC for Borderlands 2, some of the chests are mimics. The first time (and almost every time after that) you encounter one it is terrifying.

 

[Ranes]

Has TSR, WOTC, or anybody else ever produced a picture of what the Mimic looks like when it is not imitating a treasure chest (or whatever)? It's described as "amorphous", but that doesn't help picture it much. Pictures of it as a chest usually give it teeth and a tongue, presumably to show it in mid-transformation from a chest to its natural form. So I assume it's got a mouth in its natural state? What else - legs? Or is it more of a ooze like critter?

I'm not so sure a mimic has a natural shape. I've always thought the first shape a mimic forms is one suggested by its immediate surroundings.

 

[EzekielRaiden]

It looks like a perfectly generic object.

Or: It comes from a rich evolutionary line that includes, at the most basal levels, things like the gelatinous cube and ochre jelly, which have limited adaptation to their surroundings. There are actually many species of "mimic," much like there are many species of changeling, but their differences lie in preferred environments, level of ability to replicate magical effects, "chemical" or "cellular" structure, etc. Sessile mimics are about as closely related to PC changelings as tree shrews are to humans, there's a link but very minimal family resemblance; there are other metamorphs, some predatory and some autotrophic, which are much more closely related.

 

[Tormyr]

It looks like a white meeple from Carcassonne as evidenced by the mimics in the Windows tile set version of the game Nethack.

 

[BoldItalic]

It looks like your laptop

 

[steeldragons]

It looks like your laptop

Really?

That seems unlikely. I mean, mine is just a...hey. What's this?...AH! What the...AAAAGH STOP! NO! GET AWAY! AAAAAAAAGHK *gurgle* AK *choke* HKK*

...*gulp*

... burrrRRRRRRP*

Yeh. My Steel Dragons' lap top tote sally not mimic. Hims normal guy. Nuffin' strange here.

Who wants come over fer lunch?

 

[TarionzCousin]

It looks like a dragonborn with boobs.