Homebrew Awakened Mimic Species Details
You aren't like other mimics. For one reason or another, you have sentience. Perhaps some powerful mage crafted you that way. Perhaps a travelling group of adventurers decided to cast Awaken on you for their amusement. Perhaps you simply woke up one day and don't know why. Whatever the reason, you've left behind the life of a dungeon predator in order to become an adventurer.
Awakened Mimic Traits
Thanks to being a mimic, you have multiple abilities.Ability Score Increase
Your Constitution score increases by 2, and your Strength score increases by 1.
Age
Mimics typically take about 5 years to fully mature, and generally live less than a century.
Alignment
Most mimics, being mindless, do not have an alignment. Thanks to your awakening, you are free to choose whichever alignment you wish.
Size
Mimics can take a variety of forms and sizes. Your default size is Medium, though you can become either Medium or Small depending on your current form.
Speed
Your base walking speed is 15 feet.
Darkvision
Adapted to living in dimly lit dungeons, you have superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Shapechanger
You can use your action to polymorph into a medium object, a humanoid, or back into your true, amorphous form. Your statistics are the same in object form and your true form. Any equipment you are wearing or carrying isn't transformed. You revert to your true form if you die.
Humanoid Form
When you take on a humanoid form you can take advantage of the humanoid’s more agile shape. While you are in a humanoid form your walking speed is increased by 15 feet, to a total of 30 feet.
Although you can choose to take on any shape you please for aesthetic reasons you are not inherently humanoid and have great trouble mimicking individual creature’s subtleties. You can pass yourself off as a member of any race but you gain no bonus to skill checks made to pass yourself off as a specific creature.
Object Form
While you remain motionless, you are indistinguishable from an ordinary object.
While you are in your object form attempting to move, wield a weapon, or use an item will immediately give away your nature as a shapeshifter to any creature who witnesses it.
Cumbersome Form
While you are in your true form or an object form you cannot wear armor.
Adhesive (Object Form Only)
When you hit a creature with an unarmed attack while in an object form, you can attempt to grapple them with a bonus action.
Ambush Predator
You are proficient in the Stealth skill.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice, typically one spoken by your awakener.
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