Why MIMICS are so SCARY in Dungeons and Dragons

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[@godly-shadow]

My friend had a session where he used a Hammer he got from a creepy old woman in a cave, later on when fighting a Giant of rock and when he got to the head he pulled it out rolled a Nat 1 and turns out it was a mimic which used its tongue to rap him up and another Nat 1 and the giant crushed him. My friend made such a face at our dm, then he just laid on the floor an cried. It was too funny 🤣🤣🤣

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[@burgundian]

No. Just no. Like your content. Hate freemium garbage designed to rob idiots.

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[@davidrice1251]

Same, no chest😕

[@camramaster]

The bartender asked the party why they carried weapons into his bar. "Mimics." The party laughed. The bartender laughed. The table laughed. We killed the table. The building mentioned that it didn't think the joke was that funny. Our whole party died.

[@deanallenjones]

thank you for the chuckle. I was going to make the same joke but I never thought of the additional last 2 lines :) Love it I SHOULD have made the link, there was a mimic house in a friend's home brew.

[@paprickachicken5277]

Mimics ☕

[@MasamiPhoenix]

Old joke, new twist. Well done sir

[@koanos2448]

Ah the good ol' Gazebo...

[@Dracolych69]

@@koanos2448 The Gazebo story is so old, could it be the inspiration for Mimics?

[@biddle2944]

I had no idea mimics were a thing when I first started playing dnd. My first character was almost killed pretty early on because of a mimic door. It's become a running joke that any character I play is absolutely terrified of mimics. It's a a fear that transcends universes XD

[@prathamthakur8815]

can you play mimics in dnd

[@codename1176]

@@prathamthakur8815 technically yes as mimics are smart enough

[@watcher1269]

I think the most evil your DM could be is making a mimics be something other than chests or doors, like a bag full of coins or be the coins themselves. At least the little monsters can be tamed.

[@faolan2174]

My friend had this same experience. He ran over and opened a chest without hesitation, only for it to almost murder him. Ever since, he's been very cautious about chests. XD

[@faolan2174]

@@watcher1269 we had this happen recently in a session. We saw a lone chest in the corner, and figured out it was a mimic. We didn't want it to follow us, so we decided to attack and it died easily, with a small cry. Then the floor opened up beneath us as the room turned out to be Mommy Mimic, taking revenge for her baby. Luckily, we survived, but hoo-boy that was a fight!

[@Treeco44]

The cat looking at the camera like “I may not be a mimic but I can mess you up all the same” nearly killed me.

[@yotamz.r.6948]

That cat was a doplagenger

[@midnights2631]

Reminds me of some of my cats.

[@duncandewar9885]

​@@yotamz.r.6948or a flerken

[@ClumsyReaper]

I’d say the Scariest Part is Mimic Colonies; entire locations like where literally everything is a mimic and they all share a telepathic hivemind

[@drakynoch]

Like the mimic ranch in Skullport?

[@pison1000]

Just imagine walking into what you thought was just an abandoned ghost town, but it was just a giant colony of mimics.

[@EdKolis]

Don't blink? No, wait...

[@nicolrb2210]

I’d say the house mimic or ship mimic is scarier, you hop in, expecting maybe a hag or a person of the woods and nope, the door becomes a mouth and so does the floor under your feet

[@ClumsyReaper]

And then there’s the fact that a mimi colony can include a house mimic

[@56Firedead]

My d&d mimic story (trauma) Our adventure party was tasked to investigate a potentially cursed home. We got to the location and cast detect magic but are arcana roles weren't the best The only thing that we could tell was that everything was covered in magic. We proceeded to open the front door, The door was a mimic. What ensued after became a game of finding the mimics. The table was a mimic. The bookcase was a mimic, the chest strangely enough it was not a mimic. We eventually resorted to using reach weapons and ranged weapons to stab and attack everything to find what was and was not a mimic. After that paranoid filled adventure as we leave the house, The DM says roll initiative and the house stands up.

[@TarossBlackburn]

HELL HOUSE!

[@aceofspades3257]

the house stands up *boss music*

[@fellipescotti9325]

😂

[@TheDurid1]

Your just killed it's babies!!

[@janeyyy808]

Stealing this 😅

[@Venomtankmod]

I once ran a very evil dungeon designed to be a death trap. Final room was an “armory”. Every weapon on the walls was a mimic. The floor had loose gold-hoard mimic. The table and chair? Mimics. The deck of playing cards? 55 mimics nesting together. Even the light was a mimic. The door was also a massive mimic

[@Venomtankmod]

One person who wasn’t there survived.

[@gigaspheal9439]

Hmmmm, that's 1 way to get rid of greedy players lol

[@titanictnt7476]

Oh God, it's like the "everything is cake" meme except you're the food.

[@jakisz]

That's evil

[@skell6134]

@@gigaspheal9439 As long as wizard doesnt cast fire ball and kill all of them

[@alashandra]

You know what makes a REALLY good mimic detector? Spirit Guardians. Turns out that Mimics aren't great at wisdom saves. My DM hates that I figured that one out.

[@treehugger0241]

Stealing that.

[@JafenKtair]

Stealing that

[@alashandra]

Go for it! With my blessings. May your DM be as annoyed as mine was. (So many baby mimics died to that spell.)

[@kayd6572]

Stealing that shamelessly and claiming it to be my own original idea.

[@shawnwolf5961]

I mean if you want to randomly waste a spellslot to cast spirit guardians--one of your go to spells as a cleric at that--be my guest. But what happens when you really needed that spell later? Kind of a waste of resources.

[@gamemasteranthony2756]

I think my group actually befriended a mimic at one point. As in...giving it scritches and treating it like the family pet. Can't remember what the context was, though...

[@TheKasimkage]

This happened in a recent episode of the Dungeons & Dragons podcast I listen to too (Tales from the Stinky Dragon). It was the pet of the store owner who would keep valuable items inside.

[@Ijuuin]

How would one go about taming a mimic? That’d be really cool to have in the campaign I’m in.

[@ZyroShadowPony]

At some point we had a baby mimic as a pet however they belonged to our "that guy" player so when he was removed we just took some of his stuff. Came to realize we forgot about it and it died in its glass jar

[@DR-fd8sx]

My party managed to befriend two mimics by getting them extremely drunk. Named them Gold and Bourbon. Not the weirdest pets we ended up getting but defiantly one of the funniest.

[@iceman3317]

Yeah, another channel here on youtube, TeamFourStar, had an entire mimic army that were weren't trying to kill you. I think their ship was even a large mimic.

[@anotterwithaphone3077]

In Acquisitions Incorporated one of the factions actually has mimics that can be living things.. more exactly they train them to look like dogs.... The say "woof" rather then barking

[@taddad2641]

wouldn't that just be a doppleganger?

[@anotterwithaphone3077]

@@taddad2641 the book outright calls them mimics that have been specifically trained

[@G-Forces]

That is both sute and creepy at the same time.

[@skylarbetts5494]

Now i just wanna play Acquisitions that much more

[@anotterwithaphone3077]

@@skylarbetts5494 the faction is one of the "antagonistic" ones called "The Noble Knife" and they are all about assassination of would be tyrants... Could always see if your dm would let you use the "Rival Intern" background and have... taken from your old job a young tamed mimic that can be a puppy to become a ranger pet or something thou.

[@ForgetfulHatter]

i love the theory that modern day mimics would be amazon packages at doors. yep yep packages that don't belong to you have a very high chance of being a mimic waiting for a foolish package thief 100% chance of that.

[@faolan2174]

If Mark Rober was evil...

[@stevenenderson9273]

I love this, I am getting several ideas on how cynical NPCs would use and train mimics to counter porch pirates.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@faolan2174 And they would all learn the phrase, "Keep the change, ya filthy animal."

[@sangdraxis]

I love mimics lol. One time I was DMing a campaign and I put a chest in the middle of the room on a raised platform. They spent like 15 minutes arguing about the chest being a mimic. Finally they planned out a whole complicated strategy to jump the mimic when it tries to attack the parties rogue since they were only lvl 1. The thing is, the chest wasn't the mimic and after the rogue looted the chest safely, they all let there guard down and got butchered. Because the chest wasn't a mimic. The raised platform, on the other hand, was a giant mimic. They NEVER let me DM our group again lols.

[@malakai2012]

in the manga Delicious Dungeon there's a whole species of insects that mimic jewelry. "Treasure Insects appear to swarm and bite to defeat their enemies. Their bites appear to cause paralysis They prey on mimics, crawling into whatever chest the mimic is currently occupying to lay their eggs. When the larvae emerge, they devour the mimic. Then, when a hapless adventurer comes along to open the chest, they will take the treasure insects, believing it to be treasure, and the insects will spread to a new place."

[@1stCallipostle]

Seems like a win win to me The treasure insects get to spread, the adventurer gets to not get oofed by mimics

[@watcher1269]

DM: okay, so after you clear a dungeon of mimics and traps, and now have lots of gold Players: We return to town and rest at the tavern. DM: Do you put on your clothes the next morning? Players: Yea, of course. DM: Hmmhmm... *Starts rolling dice*

[@DesMuttYS]

One minor, but crucial, detail was left out. That is the fact that when they are in their disguised form, mimics release and adhesive coating. So when a player touches it, they get stuck (which translates to a strength saving throw) That means that as soon as the player sat down on the mimic chair, he was stuck.

[@jonsturgill6508]

This. So few folks seem to realize or care how mimics work.

[@anna-flora999]

Which also means that it's extremely easy to check if something is a mimic without touching it

[@TarossBlackburn]

He didn't seem to actually get up from the chair at any point...

[@PandaPrintesa]

@@anna-flora999 uh no. Excretes adhesive to be sticky. As long as the mimic is in object form and completely motionless, the mimic is indistinguishable from any other object. You cannot see the substance. Would completely defeat the fact that they are ambush predators able to be completely camouflaged if someone could see the excretion.

[@anna-flora999]

@@PandaPrintesa everything touching it sticks to it, right? It's covered in glue, essentially So, if you throw sand at a chest and it sticks to the adhesive, you know it's a mimic

[@brandonsalyer5940]

I ran a one shot were I decided to introduce my friends to mimics, each time they found a chest, there was always a set of two. One was real, the other a mimic. It was absolutely a fun experience... For me

[@hannahoo8919]

You sadist =D

[@louiskemner3216]

My playgroup mentioned the idea of Mimics taking on the form of health potions. Now that's a dirty trick!

[@paparoachlover24]

New idea for my players, thank you lol.

[@Plasmagon99]

EVIL! EVIL! EVIL! -Mermaid Man to Barnacle Boy

[@gigaspheal9439]

I may have to use that lol! Thanks for the idea

[@Mary_Studios]

I'm stealing this

[@elgrun2913]

No, stop. Just no. Potions of Poison are bad enough.

[@derekstein6193]

I got an idea, so hear me out... Shadow Mimics. They are the same as normal mimics, but spent too much time in the Shadowfell, thereby gaining the Shadow Stealth trait and can once per Short/Long Rest use its reaction to teleport through shadows like the shadow sorcerer's Shadow Walk feature. Yeah, so what if you found it? It can just teleport away, hide in the shadows, and find some less threatening hunting grounds. Your party will know the true meaning of paranoia.

[@MikaeruDaiTenshi]

I think short/long rests don't work for monsters, better just use 1/day, so they can't teleport infinitely IF they are not followed immediatly

[@lochiegriffiths4712]

Imagine a house Mimic just teleporting away

[@astrid2432]

@@lochiegriffiths4712 the big question then: if you are inside, will you get tped too? if yes, wouldn't that be like one of the fastest travel method

[@LoneSkag]

Watch the episode of doctor who about the library. Those are shadow mimics.

[@johnyshadow]

I can´t remember what book/monster manual it was from, but I remember reading about a monster that could mimic/hide in your shadow. I think one of the shadow/undead monsters, like "Shadow" or "Wraith", but not quite...

[@cindygauthier8567]

I made a fruit stand mimic once. The party would have safely walked right by it, too, but the rogue just HAD to steal that oh so very perfect, shiny red apple on the counter…

[@therighttrousers343]

"I'll let you pet Mr. Whiskers!"

[@gamingrabbit5100]

@@therighttrousers343 isint that line from one of the spongebob movies

[@therighttrousers343]

@@gamingrabbit5100 Yes, first one, from the ice cream lady who's the tongue of a frogfish.

[@mangaartist303]

I almost forgot about that one time that the DM created an entire town comprised of doppelgangers and mimics. Where were the mimics? The houses. They were the houses.

[@spencervance8484]

Thats not fair

[@lucarudloff687]

@@spencervance8484 but funny

[@brandongalvan6603]

But if Mimics can only take on the form of inanimate objects and learn languages, then couldn't they just imitate anything if they went to Fantasy Madame Tussauds Wax Museum?

[@peculiarpangolin4638]

Thank you for the idea; I'm definitely using that!

[@tornadotaylor8956]

Wait, is that what happened in night of the museum?

[@Khaisz.]

@@tornadotaylor8956 hmm, night of the museum actually being a DnD campaign about a Human Artificer fighting Evil Mimics with help from Friendly Mimics is a interesting take.

[@tornadotaylor8956]

@@Khaisz. I don't even remember the plot of the first film, where do "evil mimics" come Into it

[@Khaisz.]

@@tornadotaylor8956 I confused the plot of the 2nd film with the first it seems. 2nd film has 4 exhibits(mimics) that are evil(Napoleon, Ivan the Terrible, Al Capone and Ahkmenrah's brother Kahmunrah), while the 1st film just has 3 regular Human Thieves stealing the golden tablet that gives the exhibits(mimics) life and they also need to catch some neanderthals who escaped the museum.

[@plaguedoctor917]

I once befriended a mimic sword. The deal was he doesnt kill me and I feed him the bodies we leave behind Soon enough he learned common, and actually had super high charisma

[@JDStone-jg8cg]

That's awesome, it's like a knock off mortal version of the God's sentient swords. i must try this now . . .

[@RoulicisThe]

Happened to me once as well. Turns out a two-handed hammer that can straight-up devour targets on the swing was too OP for the DM to bear xD

[@coolpoolbymatthew]

Nice

[@RelativelyBest]

I literally just thought of that idea myself. Small world.

[@misterchubbikins]

Stories like these are why dnd clowns of video games

[@stacimccollough7937]

My party ran into a room that had 5 mimics. I asked to roll diplomacy and my DM allowed me. I walked out of there with a mimic disguised as my cloak. Then everybody else decided they had to roll Diplomacy too. Thing is, over time, everybody else took on followers. I didn't. I got hit with a sonic attack that killed my mimic late game and nearly cried. It had become my pet, so one of the others and the DM finagled and bent the hell out of some rules and let me bring it back since I never used it in battle. I just cuddled it like a stuffed animal at night.

[@no1ofconsequence936]

So my older brother was running an experimental tabletop RPG he made, testing a boss that was far too good at blocking. When we were had killed it, we went to check out the loot. Turns out, the loot chest was a mimic. Our characters glared at it, and we rolled two natural twenties, it died of intimidation. He doesn't use mimics anymore.

[@takatacheroki2624]

Bro, you guys straight up _scared_ that mimic to death - literally!

[@gazzmaz8830]

Dm:You see a treasure chest Barbarian: I kill the mimic Dm: you kill the mimic gold spills out Rouge: I take the gold and put it in the pouch I keep in my jacket Dm: you take 50 mimic hatchlings and place them inside your jacket pouch

[@robertparsons7443]

This reminds me of a story I read on reddit about a party that took gold from a dungeon. Turns out they were baby mimics. They spent it in towns all along their path. Later they came back and all the towns were destroyed as the mimics slowly took over and propagated. Has always stuck with me as the mimics posed no threat to the party, but the party later doomed a world they were trying to save.

[@gaster42]

Party: *walks into a store* DM: "I need everyone to roll a reflux/strength saving throw or be grappled." Party: "why?" DM: "the shop is a mimic."

[@faolan2174]

Lol a reflux saving throw

[@TheOriginalKZero]

@@faolan2174 If only we had acid resistance!

[@MonkeyJedi99]

@@faolan2174 The typo made this so much funnier!

[@blacktemplarbarachel3387]

A encounter I had with a mimic was we (me and party) were going into a old vampire castle when one of my teammates sat on a toilet that turned out to be a mimic and nearly ate him from the bottom up

[@gingerinajacket8519]

Premade campaign or a DM who REALLY hated the player?

[@VanNessy97]

Was your teammate named J.P. Polnareff?

[@blacktemplarbarachel3387]

@@VanNessy97 no

[@blacktemplarbarachel3387]

@@gingerinajacket8519 nah dam did not hate us another dm really did this was all pre planned for a school activity my school did and how I got into dnd

[@Leongon]

Tough to say who would be the one eating shit in that situation 🤔

[@SpiritOfSpite]

According to the lore mimic colonies can come together to create a whole fake kingdom where every brick is an individual mimic, also according to lore mimics are smart enough to be bargained with but I've never seen any DM utilize that tidbit

[@torva360]

Druid in my campaign picked up a dagger, not knowing it was a mimic. When she hadn't stabbed anything in a while, she "rolled onto it in her sleep and cut herself." Then it got bigger (scimitar). Finally, she just snapped at her sword one day, and the session ended with it replying. Fast forward, they get along well. It's now a shield that turns into armor when she wild shapes (was most recently a vest on a cat)

[@Asertix357]

Oh dear... Bard: *Sneezes* Every brick of the castle wall the party is walking by: "Gesundheit!"

[@christopherg2347]

The good news is that you would know if you touched a Mimic, as the texture is wrong and they are coated in a liquid. The bad news is that said liquid is hella sticky. So when you touch it, you are already grabbed. And as someone recently pointed out, a Corpse is a object. And the definition of Inanimate.

[@nrais76]

Actually, in multiple editions it states they perfectly replicate texture. This makes sense as it would reflect light incorrectly. But it's moot, as you're stuck now, and it can eat you.

[@dragonsswarm1987]

They'd probably have to be imitating a particularly burned/mutilated corpse.

[@yuki97kira]

Imagine touching your balls and one day discovered it to be extra sticky

[@TheRagingRodentGaming]

Now I could see after some gruesome event the BBEG leaves behind decoy corpses among the real ones that are actually mimics to slow down the party.

[@christopherg2347]

@@TheRagingRodentGaming Keep in mind that Mimics do have a degree of intelligence - with older ones even capable of speech.

[@Ptollemios]

Mimics would be a red alert type of creature if they set up a nest in a city. People disappearing in the night in their own homes, or piles of bones bleached by acid found in alleyways. Adventurers just trying to figure out whats happening to these people, all the while unaware that the trash can next to them is just waiting for one of them to lean on it.

[@davitto01]

My group once spent an entire session attacking a door we were convinced was a mimic.....only to be ambushed by the chandalier, once we entered the room, which was actually the mimic.

[@davidalleyn4221]

My favorite use of a mimic was to have a chest at the end of a hall, and either the rogue or druid will find a secret message that simply says "mimic", the players will try to talk to it, they will discuss going around it, they will eventually pull out weapons and prepare for an all out attack, and inside of this REGULAR chest they will find a note saying "fooled you" there never was a mimic, the players just over reacted to the thought of a mimic.

[@davidalleyn4221]

And no I didn't just have a door next to the chest be a mimic, that's lame.

[@nathanielbass771]

pfft, some dm's would troll you by having the note itself be the mimic XD

[@joelrobinson5457]

That and some mimics are smart enough to be able to form symbiotic bonds, a familiar can be a small one, or they can be things like hunting animals, that look like boxes

[@watcher1269]

I would love to have one of my characters tame a mimic and then use it on a coin purse. Let the next bandits try and take my gold.

[@watcher1269]

I know I just posted, but if you can tame then BREED those mimics, imagine the chaos of an arrow quiver full of those things. Here you go, Ranger/Fighter.

[@c.Orange]

@@watcher1269 Mimics are also immune to acid damage so you can wear one to have resistance to that, or even be immune If your dm is kind enough. You can use this to bully black dragons. Or take a swim in a gelatinous cube even!

[@watcher1269]

@@c.Orange If you find enough Mimics The other fun way you could go about it is using mimics as vials to store acid. Throw them at a monster, the acid spills and you got a little vial biting you too.

[@c.Orange]

@@watcher1269 a mimic is also adhesive in it's object form, so these vials can attach them selfs onto monsters and grapple them. Bite them with acid laced fangs.

[@c.Orange]

If you somehow tame a mimic and have it turn into a full body diving suit you can practically be Immune to acid damage completely.

[@ChaosPod]

I always thought mimics were monsters that looked like treasure chests, I didn't realise they could shapeshift into any inanimate object.

[@sophiachalloner8951]

Same

[@TsukiStuffs]

in most video games they always take the form of chests, and in dnd that also tends to be the case quite often

[@maximumdon7637]

So if a mimic could turn into one of our books… we could have a “Monster manual of monsters”.

[@DeutschlandBall-lt4ch]

ah, yes harry potter in dnd

[@maximumdon7637]

@@DeutschlandBall-lt4ch Just because Harry Potter already coined it, doesn’t mean it’s not still a cool idea.

[@swaglordxxx836]

I remember my first encounter with a Mimic. The DM made it pretty clear the house I wanted to explore was a mimic. Like he didn't even hide it. And me, never having delt with one before said "Yeah, I still walk in" so my character walks in only to almost be swallowed whole. But he survived and walked back out of the house fine. And he was the first person to ever survive the house. I was so excited about my first encounter with mimics I decided to troll our new player that joined later and told them to try going in the house some time lol

[@Daktangle]

A fine use of a 10ft pole, poking EVERYTHING and seeing if it adheres! If it does, it may be a mimic so fireball away!

[@annasolovyeva1013]

Or a fishing rod and a piece of cloth

[@jonsku6662]

What's the fear of chainsaws called? Common sense What's the fear of mimics called? Trust issues with DM

[@vladislavraginis8781]

Ahhh, I remember the nice throne-Mimic named Johnathan who tried to eat my Rogue's hand. He even spat D'thon's glove back up after said rogue got over the minor heart attack and asked nicely.

[@franknova987]

Hence why every RPG the mimics are the most deadliest of creatures, mostly disguising themselves as treasure chest

[@watcher1269]

I think it's scarier when you can disguise them as clothes or armor the party members take off for a long rest.

[@anna-flora999]

Not all of them. There's at least one where they're just shy

[@riven5677]

Or better yet houses or boats

[@bloodmooncomics2249]

Box (my warforged Bard) had a mimic as a pet. My DM said as long as Box kept it fed it was happy. I called him Hinge because that was his favorite food and it was a chest so I would leave it at bars by the doors to eat everyone coats and hats. When I used a mimic when I was DM I used it as the door. A player trying to hurry through a dark dungeon reached for the only door in the dungeon and the door was a mimic. He nearly died from it.

[@MelissiaBlackheart]

4th edition had an advanced form of mimic that could take the shape of any medium to tiny creature. They also dominated targets by targeting Fortitude (the 5e equivalent of forcing a Con save). Because they'd mimic-ify your body. Without dominating your mind.

[@silversabercraft]

On the topic of mimics, have a loot idea A room with two pedestals, both have a weapon identical atop them, both weapons give off sentience, they may pick but one, and doing a check upon either removes their chance to choose either With the players knowing that, you decide one as a magic item, the other a mimic, neither will respond once picked up, both will wait until most appropriate, because a single mimic can't beat a party... but maybe one member in their sleep isn't so hard... who knows, might give it enough power to disguise itself as that person It's a simple concept that you can easily tweak to whatever you want and whatever rules you run by to give the players a weighty choice that they have to put their trust in fate with, but it's a rare occasion where fate isn't a dice

[@matthewbrun9633]

During the first session of one of my campaigns, one of my players died from his Butt getting eaten by a Toilet Mimic. It's amazing what multiple nat 1s can do.

[@Gemini-Lion]

In the one of the first campaigns I have ever played, we were in a dungeon for a reason I can’t remember. What I do remember, however, is that there was this one suspicious teddy bear. This was around 3 years ago, so I have forgotten MANY details. We found a strange teddy bear in this dungeon and it feels out of place to us in this moment. We try brainstorming why this teddy bear was here in the first place. We were going through our ideas from our limited knowledge of D&D at the time. We couldn’t think of much, but one of the other players came up with the idea that it could be a mimic. I didn’t even know what a mimic was at the time, so he had to explain his thought process so I could understand. We had concluded that it was A) a mimic, B) some obscure monster or item, or C) we were just paranoid and overthinking everything. We were thinking A, but it should be possible to guess what the real answer was.

[@Adarhysenthe]

My group had an adventure where we were searching some guy's chest for papers and then the chest began to sweat nervously... So our DM gave a mimic a Mel Brooks' voice and awareness of being easily killed by our party, so we ended up adopting it, feeding it like a pet, and setting it up to guard a room in our mansion. We loved that mimic, he was our favorite.

[@themadfortress3115]

The last mimic i encountered made my character scream like Mike Wazowski from monsters inc.

[@jewlbunny]

The joke with the balls really had me there. I was like "They're attached! How could they be a problem?" Then he tossed the boss he had in his hands. Lol.

[@BigRaidah]

I once accidentally killed a ship captain’s pet mimic. I felt bad about it.

[@geekdiscussions]

My players once ran into a mimic because it was disguised as a barrel of mushroom wine so he tried to open it and got grappled by the tongue they then sliced off the creatures tongue

[@mangaartist303]

Had a druid who collected monster parts, mostly to see if she could turn them into useful things. While it didn't end up being useful, she did end up with a mimic's tongue. Even funnier is that I currently have a rogue who also has a mimic's tongue in his possession.

[@ladylavender8847]

Our rouge got a hold of a mimic’s tongue. It didn’t last long but boy howdy did she slap the living daylights out of the party’s monk with it. 😂Why you ask? No one knows. (We think she might like him). 😆

[@CrazyCasper1888]

What would be evil is if at some point you swap out the mimics tongue with a mimic

[@Kineth1]

@@CrazyCasper1888 What happened to the dead mimic's tongue in my inventory? It got better.

[@CrazyCasper1888]

@@Kineth1 mimic tongue mimic "My name is Mimigo Mimtoyo, and you killed my father. Prepare to die"

[@RoseKindred]

Two-word horror story: Outhouse Mimic.

[@solillman2350]

Read a story once about a mimic that got adopted by a party. It gradually increased in size 1 cm per day. Mimic gigantism or something. Requiring more food over time. Most of the campaign they were travelling with a "Cart of Treats!" Which became "The Circus Tent of Eidotgniog!" Which later rebranded to the "Circus Eatemall." Yeah, about what you expect from a party adoption.

[@mullerpotgieter]

An adult mimic weighs as much as a hippo, so they generally have to take the form of large items. Like biiig chests

[@jlokison]

Cabinets, dressers, wardrobes, writing desks, statues, sections of wall, still lots of options.

[@swaglevi4315]

and in some cases the entire dungeon

[@lookupandfindout]

In one of the games I was in 2 of the players entered into a tournament. We were thrown into what people were calling the "Ladder Match". There was a pedestal with 2 ladders on either side with a chest at the top. Turns out that not only was the chest a mimic, but so were the ladders. That was a fun day

[@bedrockpatron9599]

The moment you made the balls joke I thought that this was a transition to keeps

[@Balefire99]

That would have been brilliant

[@XarXsPL]

ah, I remember when we met mimic for the first time. We came to a dungeon and after a while we saw some chest, just ordynarny chest. And as a players: - this is mimic - yup, this have to be mimic - but our characters doesn't know this - indeed - alright, someone have to do this.. and I as a former team tank walk closer to the chest xD And yes, this was mimic. Good memories.

[@doingoloingo2905]

And the fact a mimic could be any size, like imagine exploring a cave or dungeon only to find out the entire thing is a mimic

[@jlokison]

The things that can be done with mimics, mimic hives, doppelgangers and changelings with levels in druid can create some really good horror stories.

[@SilentShadows877]

My personal favourite are potion mimics. Rather than try to immediately kill you, they invade your body, and over time use it as a host to grow more potion mimics which eventually sucks you dry of any remaining vitality you may have, until you die a withered husk. Or they'll burst out of your stomach. Whichever comes first.

[@poyotato151]

About a week ago, my DM was talking about his genius idea about how a mimic could technically disguise as a corpse since it wasn't a creature, instead it's an object. Just a few days afterwards we had a session and we found a corpse. Somehow we all forgot and it was genuinely surprising when it jumped out at us

[@nathanielbass771]

Pfft, imagine the look on the divine caster's face when light magic has no effect on it XD

[@Freeflier]

In one of our homebrew campaigns, we played as dragons and absorbed the mimics' ability to transform. Guess what we're gonna have to deal with in the next campaign (playing as normal characters this time)...

[@metaphoricalonion2008]

They got us in the first part ngl

[@Graceisanutjob]

In a (sadly cut off) D&D campaign I was in, one of the party members found a not hostile mimic. They then found a ring of transformation, and the mimic got it stuck in it’s tongue. It then turned into a cat, and the party member named it Duck. My character was a Sorcerer with a pet wolf, the said party member was an automaton

[@milosjovanjelenjev9490]

What if the underpants were mimics?

[@funnyblog100]

If you really wanna make it scary. You wanna know what else is an inanimate object? A gold coin. You can have a whole treasure room full of them!

[@yarion4774]

My favorite mimic story is about a dungeon where our cleric was very wary of mimics. As they went through the first half of the dungeon, he'd jokingly check every chest if it's a mimic. After they got most of the cultists basement they split up to explore two corridors near each other. While one group encountered a few ghouls the other found a door and then heard the combat noise through it. So the cleric took initiative and grabs the door knob, but can't tirn it. Or release his hand. As a row of teeth appear in the wood and a tongue latches onto him. And then he remembered.. this was the only door in they encountered in the entire basement. He survived. But he never got over his fear of mimics.

[@Maninawig]

Then there is my Circle of Spores druid Eladrin who befriended a tiny mimic and raised it to be his horseless wagon thanks to Goodberry. Best part, it's a sidekick with proficiency in Nature and Survival, making it an amazing mode of transportation, yet stays hidden so the party never knows.

[@ananass8030]

Say, so when you're in an automaton city (or whatever gnomes call their robots) any resident can be a mimic or are they considered "alive"? Can a PC have a mini mimic pet (that he keeps losing in his bag of holding because... You know) or do i need a super cool DM that'll go with me?

[@jamescolvin3349]

robots = constructs = creatures(but they can't be affected by things like healing). Also, the juvenile mimic(found in tasha's) can be turned into a sidekick, which obvs still depends on the dm, but there's certainly a precedent.

[@ananass8030]

@@jamescolvin3349 cool, thanks But to be annoyingly pedantic (sorry in advance), a "dead" robot is a heap of steel, and any mimic would be able to pretend to be it, so maybe the more advanced mimics that can talk would be able to master as a "dead" talking robot? A kind of a zombie automaton? Maybe well enough so you could run a detective mistory in automaton city of "who's the mimic"

[@Drakoni23]

I can get the confusion tho. Flerken do have some similarities to mimics.

[@peterkaplar1660]

The mimic is one of the most terrifying monsters in D&D, I think. Along with the intelligent gelatinous cube.

[@AlexJones-qf7rw]

I had my group run into a mimic a few sessions ago. One of my players actually got excited over it because he had never run across a mimic before!

[@DigitalRRS]

As a DM, my players always fall for Mimics. Why? Because I use them so rarely that they never even consider it. I used one several months ago for the first time in little over a year.

[@chrishubbard64]

A dungeon with mimics is like a dungeon full of illusions. A slow slog as literally everything is tested relentlessly before being approached because the door tried to eat your cleric.

[@Lycan4]

My Sunday DM gets us every campaign with a Mimic. Four campaigns with him, and he gets us every time. In order, it was a couch, a door, a lever, and a school trunk. You'd think this would make us paranoid, but it doesn't. He gets us early on in the campaign, and then we have the rest of the campaign to forget about it until the next one, and then he gets us again and we go "There's the Mimic!" because that's the exact moment we remember about it. I actually love the Mimic encounters.

[@troperhghar9898]

In my experience mimics are delicious when cooked properly

[@homerman76]

Took player kill to a whole new meaning 😂

[@alexkoder1982]

I still remember sending a Mimic Wagon, think Oregon Trail size, loaded with Mimic Furniture at the party. ah...good times trying to run them over with that wagon while using the Furniture as projectile weaponry.

[@mathewpoole3589]

That cat could still have been a mimic. Stuffed toys are inanimate objects, so a mimic assuming the form of a stuffed cat could skulk about in the shadows, tricking the players into thinking that they're looking at a simple cat. That is until they come in for a closer look. 😈

[@geekdiscussions]

Omg I’m so early also completely random I had some amazing waffles this morning

[@k_toiletpaper9238]

Waffles are good

[@geekdiscussions]

@@k_toiletpaper9238 there pancakes with abbs

[@acherem13]

I'm watching this as I'm literally sitting alone in an examination room of a Urilogists office waiting to get a testicular inspection. I nearly burst out laughing when you got to the balls bit 🤣

[@greatazuredragon]

And that is why you should always cast fireball upon your furniture. Just to make sure. XD

[@salvadortoscano2534]

"This chair's a mimic, isn't it?" DM and the Mimic: *YES*

[@BunjiKugashira42]

Honestly Mimics aren't as difficult to detect as often imagined. First of all a mimic's transformation isn't magical. It's more like an octopus that changes the color and texture of its skin combined with the ability to change the general shape of its body. So the limitations are 1. It can't be any other size but medium and 2. It can only be made of wood, stone, or other simple materials. So a chest would work and so would a closed door. Once the door is open however, you'd notice it is a lot thicker than a normal door. The organs have to be somewhere after all. A beany bag would make a great mimic, a skinny wooden chair wouldn't. A statue could be a mimic, an empty suit of armor couldn't, unless it had a bump somewhere or was especially thick for storing the mimic's organs. A pile of gold could be a mimic, a single coin couldn't due to its size. You get the idea. If you still want to make smaller or thinner things into mimics, you can usually make the mimic burrow most of its body in the floor, wall or even ceiling. I feel like many people forget what a mimic even is and slap the label on random objects. And while some DMs might find it fun if their party starts poking every mundane item they come across, just to make sure it isn't a mimic, I can't imagine the fun lasting that long. Im my opinion a mimic is best used in conjunction with some kind of hint. Why is there a door when none of the other rooms have doors? Why is there a treasure chest in this totally unsecured room? Even the more intelligent mimics are barely intelligent enough to learn a language. They don't hatch great plans, they mostly follow their instincts. Want to hear a great idea for a mimic? All potential food in a dungeon has to pass the entrance at some point. That first flight of stairs with the weirdly low ceiling? Totally a mimic sitting on top of the actual stairs!

[@GabeRoyal]

This content is slowly turning less and less PG 😂

[@Jade_Dragon]

The mimic is one of the classic dnd monsters, and not just for the reason that a loot chest ends up being a mimic. Take for example, my first session in a campaign with my uncle. We'd been captured and stripped of our weapons, but had gotten out of our shackles. We were looking for our stuff, and we saw a chest. Knowing how my uncle is, me and my cousin (who was the other pc) decided to not touch it, in case it was a mimic. It had our stuff in it, and the wood was so weak it crumpled at a touch.

[@DavidCruickshank]

Can we talk about Deedee's little tambourine at the end, so cute!

[@devonmcdaniel1176]

I was legitimately thinking his shirt would be a mimic Also, adorable kitty cat 😺

[@Osma777]

Mimics are fun for a DM to play with, but try a dungeon full of ooze! I made one were slimes were in kegs of ale, hallways had "sleeping" gelatinous cubes, and the final boss was an insane wizard who had opened up a portal to the Elemental Plane of Slime/Ooze, and had found a way to cast polymorph in an area effect to transform half the party into bunnies with the floor being 1 inch acid. (This was before I was informed that bosses spam/mass casting polymorph was considered bad form.) For the rest of the campaign, every member of the party was more careful about scouting for ambushing ooze then they were checking for traps.

[@jimwormmaster]

The first time I encountered a mimic with my Pathfinder bard, I rolled a knowledge check. DM told me I could free our grappled party member with alcohol. I relay this, and hear our dwarf shaman in the background exclaim, "SON OF A"

[@Jedibigfoot]

reminds me when I put a mimic in a one shot with a new player. he was the one that got close so it attacked them. his cleric then did one shot it with a crit inflict wounds. but hes been suspicious of every object ever since

[@mr.teaandbiscuitsco.8485]

Great stuff as always!

[@scout1696]

The ‘oh no he fucking murdered the cat part’ got me really good. Poor carrot tho

[@Razuki5]

Just wait until you find out about mimic hives. The entire town could be a hive mind of thousands of mimics.

[@aaronhines3335]

My players befriended a mimic once. It was offering information about the lair they were in, in exchange for a few of the party members' fingers. One player readily gave them up, and named the mimic Chester. For some reason I gave him a bostonian accent

[@privateeyety5735]

Ha! I called the chair being a mimic! Also very nice portrait

[@btg-bp4vl]

Everybody gangsta till the dm describes the guttural moans that start emanating from the abandoned pirate ship your party is investigating.

[@patricksmith6680]

Building a Heckna! campaign right now, and I'm debating with myself whether to have a prize which is just a mimic disguised as a teddy bear.

[@rosethunder3820]

The child character in my last campaign adopted a mimic. It lives in the bag of holding and tires to bite you every time you reach inside of it. The same child character adopted a baby Wyvern as a sibling.