probably a copy+paste/duplication oversight. If a mimic I'm working on has a lot in common with one I already made, I use the already made mimic as a base and make whatever changes gives the new mimic it's own distinct flavor. I don't always catch everything from the older mimic that doesn't apply to the new one.
what about a planet that has dungeons growing under the surface, and will eventually become a planet-sized dungeon, which will grow to be as big as the sun, then have it a colony of gargantuan mimics with a hive-mind, or just one mimic that kills the gargantuan monsters of that world, maybe has the monsters immortally tied to the dungeon, so that they regenerate after dying, like a lich, forever meant to be cattle for the planet.
just a thought.
oh, what about a campaign that could be good for all levels, or just level 20, and make it so that the players have to survive the world long enough to free the world of tyranny from the planetary mimic.
If I recall rightly, someone else in this thread has a similar idea for a setting that took place inside a demiplane.... and the demiplane itself was a mimic. It's an interesting concept, but would require a lot of work. Like "writing a setting sourcebook" level of work, since with an ecology on that scale, you'd need to right your universe around the monster rather than simply insert the monster into a chosen universe.
Been a while since I've put any mimic together, so: I followed up on a request. A quick modification of the book mimic for those with greater magical inclinations.
Languages Understands Common And Undercommon But Can't Speak
Challenge 1/8 (25 XP)
Proficiency Bonus +2
Shapechanger. The mimic can use its action to polymorph its surface to resemble a spellbook. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
Adhesive (Object Form Only). The mimic adheres to anything that touches it. A Medium or smaller creature adhered to the mimic is also grappled by it (escape DC 12). Ability checks made to escape this grapple have disadvantage.
Bookkeeper. While the mimic has at least 1 hit point, its pages and anything written on them can’t be damaged and don't deteriorate with age.
False Appearance (Object Form Only). While the mimic remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary book.
Grappler. The mimic has advantage on attack rolls against any creature grappled by it.
Mimic Spell. The mimic contains 3d4 + 3 random spells from the wizard spell list. It can can cast a spell written on its pages as though from a spell scroll. Spells above 3rd-level are considered to be of a higher level than the mimic can normally cast. Whether the mimic succeeds or fails in its spellcasting attempt, once it attempts to cast a spell written on its pages, it can't attempt to cast that spell again until it finishes a long rest.
Actions
Pseudopod.Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 0 ft., one creature holding the mimic. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) bludgeoning damage. If the mimic is in object form, the target is subjected to its Adhesive trait.
Bite.Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) piercing damage plus 2 (1d4) acid damage.
Book Throw. The mimic hurls itself at space up to 20 feet away. If that space is occupied by a creature, that creature must succeed on a DC 12 Strength or Dexterity saving throw (target's choice) or take 3 (1d4 + 1) bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone. On a successful save, the creature takes no damage, isn't knocked prone.
Description
A magically-inclined variant of the true book mimic, grimoire mimics actively seek out spell scrolls, which they consume and assimilate into their own bodies. Their hunger for magical formulae often lead them into the service of wizards.
Variant: Grimoire Mimic Familiar
Grimoire mimics are willing to serve as familiars for other creatures, wizards in particular. A grimoire mimic acting as a familiar gains the following trait:
Familiar. The grimoire mimic can serve another creature as a familiar, forming a telepathic bond with its willing master. While the two are bonded, the master can sense what the mimic senses as long as they are within 1 mile of each other. A grimoire mimic familiar can function as a spellbook for a wizard, granting its master access to any spell it already contains.
Shapechanger. The mimic can use its action to polymorph into a bookcase or back into its true, amorphous form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
Adhesive (Object Form Only). The mimic adheres to anything that touches it. A creature adhered to the mimic is also grappled by it (escape DC 14). Ability checks made to escape this grapple have disadvantage.
False Appearance (Object Form Only). While the mimic remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary object.
Grappler. The mimic has advantage on attack rolls against any creature grappled by it.
Living Library. The mimic has 10d10 + 10 books upon its shelves. Each book is a juvenile mimic, which remains dormant until ejected by the mimic's Book Throw. An ejected book is replaced when the mimic finishes a long rest.
Actions
Pseudopod.Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If the mimic is in object form, the target is subjected to its Adhesive trait.
Bite.Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) piercing damage plus 9 (2d8) acid damage.
Book Throw.Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d4 + 4) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled by the newly ejected juvenile mimic (escape DC 5). If the attack misses, the juvenile mimic lands in the nearest unoccupied space to the target. Juvenile mimics created this way take their turn immediately after the bookcase mimic.
Description
Libraries are often brimming with tiny objects, with books, obviously, among the most numerous. With so many books around, few would even notice a few more volumes turning up overnight, and the few that do may not place any significance on books turning up in a library. Bookcase mimics capitalize on this. They reproduce by budding, molding their genetic duplicates to take the shape of books on a shelf until they are ready to break off of the parent. Left unchecked, a single bookcase mimic can overrun a grand library with its offspring in a matter of months.
My PC just got swallowed up by a wall mimic (imagine the Demon Wall from the FF series) and found a treasure hoard inside of it. What are the chances that some of the treasure would be other mimics?
This reminds me of a joke one of my friends told me.
"A man steps out of an alleyway holding a crossbow. 'Give me your wallet.' he says. You hand it over. He throws it on the ground and shoots it with the crossbow. It screeches. 'Mimics, am I right?' he says. He laughs. You laugh. The entire alleyway laughs."
In my humble, personal opinion, this is, hands down, the most glorious thing I have ever had the great fortune to find and read. I absolutely love this. I adore mimics and have always wanted to have them as pets and companions. I was recently told about a "Mimic Tamer", and I desperately want to build one. Thank you all of this fabulous work. The world is a much better place for your dedication.
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbithole, and that means comfort.”
probably a copy+paste/duplication oversight. If a mimic I'm working on has a lot in common with one I already made, I use the already made mimic as a base and make whatever changes gives the new mimic it's own distinct flavor. I don't always catch everything from the older mimic that doesn't apply to the new one.
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Makes sense, exactly what I thought happened.
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what about a planet that has dungeons growing under the surface, and will eventually become a planet-sized dungeon, which will grow to be as big as the sun, then have it a colony of gargantuan mimics with a hive-mind, or just one mimic that kills the gargantuan monsters of that world, maybe has the monsters immortally tied to the dungeon, so that they regenerate after dying, like a lich, forever meant to be cattle for the planet.
just a thought.
oh, what about a campaign that could be good for all levels, or just level 20, and make it so that the players have to survive the world long enough to free the world of tyranny from the planetary mimic.
I think it´s a good idea, but what do you think?
If I recall rightly, someone else in this thread has a similar idea for a setting that took place inside a demiplane.... and the demiplane itself was a mimic. It's an interesting concept, but would require a lot of work. Like "writing a setting sourcebook" level of work, since with an ecology on that scale, you'd need to right your universe around the monster rather than simply insert the monster into a chosen universe.
Ongoing Projects: The Mimic Book of Mimics :: SHARK WEEK
Completed Projects: The Trick-or-Treat Table
My Homebrews: Races :: Classes :: Spells :: Items :: Monsters
Been a while since I've put any mimic together, so: I followed up on a request. A quick modification of the book mimic for those with greater magical inclinations.
Shapechanger. The mimic can use its action to polymorph its surface to resemble a spellbook. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
Adhesive (Object Form Only). The mimic adheres to anything that touches it. A Medium or smaller creature adhered to the mimic is also grappled by it (escape DC 12). Ability checks made to escape this grapple have disadvantage.
Bookkeeper. While the mimic has at least 1 hit point, its pages and anything written on them can’t be damaged and don't deteriorate with age.
False Appearance (Object Form Only). While the mimic remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary book.
Grappler. The mimic has advantage on attack rolls against any creature grappled by it.
Mimic Spell. The mimic contains 3d4 + 3 random spells from the wizard spell list. It can can cast a spell written on its pages as though from a spell scroll. Spells above 3rd-level are considered to be of a higher level than the mimic can normally cast. Whether the mimic succeeds or fails in its spellcasting attempt, once it attempts to cast a spell written on its pages, it can't attempt to cast that spell again until it finishes a long rest.
Pseudopod. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 0 ft., one creature holding the mimic. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) bludgeoning damage. If the mimic is in object form, the target is subjected to its Adhesive trait.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +3 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 3 (1d4 + 1) piercing damage plus 2 (1d4) acid damage.
Book Throw. The mimic hurls itself at space up to 20 feet away. If that space is occupied by a creature, that creature must succeed on a DC 12 Strength or Dexterity saving throw (target's choice) or take 3 (1d4 + 1) bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone. On a successful save, the creature takes no damage, isn't knocked prone.
Description
A magically-inclined variant of the true book mimic, grimoire mimics actively seek out spell scrolls, which they consume and assimilate into their own bodies. Their hunger for magical formulae often lead them into the service of wizards.
Ongoing Projects: The Mimic Book of Mimics :: SHARK WEEK
Completed Projects: The Trick-or-Treat Table
My Homebrews: Races :: Classes :: Spells :: Items :: Monsters
I love the insight this book provides into what I thought was just an excuse for DM's to bully their power hungry players
Continuing with the "alternate takes on the book mimic"...
Shapechanger. The mimic can use its action to polymorph into a bookcase or back into its true, amorphous form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
Adhesive (Object Form Only). The mimic adheres to anything that touches it. A creature adhered to the mimic is also grappled by it (escape DC 14). Ability checks made to escape this grapple have disadvantage.
False Appearance (Object Form Only). While the mimic remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary object.
Grappler. The mimic has advantage on attack rolls against any creature grappled by it.
Living Library. The mimic has 10d10 + 10 books upon its shelves. Each book is a juvenile mimic, which remains dormant until ejected by the mimic's Book Throw. An ejected book is replaced when the mimic finishes a long rest.
Pseudopod. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) bludgeoning damage. If the mimic is in object form, the target is subjected to its Adhesive trait.
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 13 (2d8 + 4) piercing damage plus 9 (2d8) acid damage.
Book Throw. Ranged Weapon Attack: +6 to hit, 20/60 ft., one target. Hit: 9 (2d4 + 4) bludgeoning damage, and the target is grappled by the newly ejected juvenile mimic (escape DC 5). If the attack misses, the juvenile mimic lands in the nearest unoccupied space to the target. Juvenile mimics created this way take their turn immediately after the bookcase mimic.
Description
Libraries are often brimming with tiny objects, with books, obviously, among the most numerous. With so many books around, few would even notice a few more volumes turning up overnight, and the few that do may not place any significance on books turning up in a library. Bookcase mimics capitalize on this. They reproduce by budding, molding their genetic duplicates to take the shape of books on a shelf until they are ready to break off of the parent. Left unchecked, a single bookcase mimic can overrun a grand library with its offspring in a matter of months.
Ongoing Projects: The Mimic Book of Mimics :: SHARK WEEK
Completed Projects: The Trick-or-Treat Table
My Homebrews: Races :: Classes :: Spells :: Items :: Monsters
I read a tiny mimic (doorknob) did 5d6 poison dmg and paralyze till the end of your next turn, it's called a venomous mimic
This is glorious! I literally created an account to comment. Amazing work you are doing.
Currently one of my player's has a "Baby Mimic" backpack. The druid is aware its a mimic and baby talks it.
Happy to see I'm not the only madman who loves mimics
There can only be one of us
My PC just got swallowed up by a wall mimic (imagine the Demon Wall from the FF series) and found a treasure hoard inside of it. What are the chances that some of the treasure would be other mimics?
High. Very high.
Royalty among the charge kingdom. All will fall before our glorious assault!
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This is great! Thank you for putting this together for us.
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I am not sure what you speak of.
I am mimicErr...meat... Hu-Mon like the rest of youI'd reeeeeally love to see mimicopolis given a statblock! Seems badass. Also thx for the nightmare fuel ^-^
Really enjoyed using these in games and oneshots. really hope this gets more steam behind it and you get more added in the near future, man.
This reminds me of a joke one of my friends told me.
"A man steps out of an alleyway holding a crossbow. 'Give me your wallet.' he says. You hand it over. He throws it on the ground and shoots it with the crossbow. It screeches. 'Mimics, am I right?' he says. He laughs. You laugh. The entire alleyway laughs."
In my humble, personal opinion, this is, hands down, the most glorious thing I have ever had the great fortune to find and read. I absolutely love this. I adore mimics and have always wanted to have them as pets and companions. I was recently told about a "Mimic Tamer", and I desperately want to build one. Thank you all of this fabulous work. The world is a much better place for your dedication.
Dude , this is insanely cool
“In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbithole, and that means comfort.”