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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Paraxis" data-source="post: 6522000" data-attributes="member: 13009">I always thought of it as a lump of sculpture  clay with a mouth, that doesn't feel comfortable in it's natural state so always mimics things if it can.Some resources for more information.Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimic_(Dungeons_%26_Dragons)</a>Piazo did a write up on them in a book called Dungeon Denizens Revisited for Pathfinder.Here is what they say.In its natural form, the mimic combines the qualities of the anglerfish, the rock octopus, and the scorpion: translucent, chitinous plates shift freely around the hulking frame of a distended mass of pale tentacles and eyes, all supported by the strength of a clear, trunk-like pseudopod. Thick gelatin holds the mass together, acting as blood, digestive system, and skin all at once.There is also an article in an old Dragon Magazine issue #75, Ecology of the Mimic by Ed Greenwood.Here is a small excerptMimic is naturally gray in hue, with a smooth, very hard outer skin that gives it the stone-like appearance. The pigmented liquid, brownish in color (often revealed to adventurers when a mimic is wounded in battle), is held within the body in large, muscular organs that serve as both bags and pumps. When these organs are squeezed by the contraction of the cavity wall muscles, they squirt their contents rapidly (within 1 round) into the outer  skin  layer,  filling  many  capillaries that lie just beneath the skin surface.  These capillaries then stand out, brownish and wrinkled,  in a pattern resembling wood grain.  Reversing the process, from the wood- grain appearance  to the natural  state, requires a sort of external contortion; a mimic appears to wriggle and twist all as it empties its capillaries of the liquid.</blockquote>

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