I'm a new dm. I was talking to a friend about how mimic would work since part of mine is a cave full of mimics. Well she asked if she could be one. I think its fine. I have read some threads saying its a bad idea. I want her to be the plot twist of the world. How would making a character be a mimic work
What are you trying to get? Character who looks and acts like a person, until they suddenly open up into a big mouth and sticky tongue? A creature that looks like a treasure chest, with the aforementioned giant mouth, who travels with the party and is just another PC, albeit a very odd one? Something else?
Depends how complicated you want to go, usually mimics would not be able to take on the form of an animate object like a person but no reason to limit that choice.
Lore wise, mimics vary a lot and some are intelligent enough to communicate in common, those more intelligent ones might even do things lime trade information with intent to make other groups fight, so that they can eat the losers.
Anyways, pretty certain people have home brewed playable mimics before, so there is definitely hits on search engines for homebrewed races, or you can use changeling and just say base form is a mimic and limited as such but can take on humanoid forms to use weapons and the like.
The other option for redressing an existing species would be the Plasmoid. It has a certain amount of shape shifting built in and the pseudopod you can grow to manipulate objects fits the iconic Mimic tongue quite well
I'm a new dm. I was talking to a friend about how mimic would work since part of mine is a cave full of mimics. Well she asked if she could be one. I think its fine. I have read some threads saying its a bad idea. I want her to be the plot twist of the world. How would making a character be a mimic work
What are you trying to get? Character who looks and acts like a person, until they suddenly open up into a big mouth and sticky tongue? A creature that looks like a treasure chest, with the aforementioned giant mouth, who travels with the party and is just another PC, albeit a very odd one? Something else?
Depends how complicated you want to go, usually mimics would not be able to take on the form of an animate object like a person but no reason to limit that choice.
Lore wise, mimics vary a lot and some are intelligent enough to communicate in common, those more intelligent ones might even do things lime trade information with intent to make other groups fight, so that they can eat the losers.
Anyways, pretty certain people have home brewed playable mimics before, so there is definitely hits on search engines for homebrewed races, or you can use changeling and just say base form is a mimic and limited as such but can take on humanoid forms to use weapons and the like.
The other option for redressing an existing species would be the Plasmoid. It has a certain amount of shape shifting built in and the pseudopod you can grow to manipulate objects fits the iconic Mimic tongue quite well
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