Homebrew Abberant Mimic Species Details
Although most Mimics are solitary creatures who rarely if ever leave their choose to leave home a certain few answer the call of adventure. Weather a Mimic is coaxed out by a brave soul or it simply reasons it can hunt more effectively by going to the food varies from Mimic to Mimic.
Abberant Mimic Traits
Although most Mimics are solitary creatures who rarely if ever leave their choose to leave home a certain few answer the call of adventure. Weather a Mimic is coaxed out by a brave soul or it simply reasons it can hunt more effectively by going to the food varies from Mimic to Mimic.Ability Score Modifier
Ability Scores: Your Strength increases by +2 and your Constitution increases by +1.
Dark Vision
Mimics’ eyes are accustomed to deep caves and dungeons. 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.
Natural Stealth
You are proficient in the Stealth skill.
Shapechange
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.
False Appearance (Object Form Only)
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
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 10 feet, to a total of 25 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.
Pseudopod
You can attack creatures by hitting them with a portion of your mass. You are proficient Pseudopod attacks. Your Pseudopod deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier Bludgeoning damage.
Bite
You can attack creatures by hitting ripping into them with your fierce teeth. You are proficient Bite attacks. Your Bite deals 1d6 + your Strength modifier Piercing damage.
Adhesive (Object Form Only)
When you hit a huge or smaller creature with your Bite or Pseudopod attacks you can attempt to grapple that creature with you bonus action.
Languages
You can speak, read, and write Common and Undercommon.
Mimic Quirks (Optional)
As Mimics aren’t naturally social creatures and have a degree of difficulty assimilating into society
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Posted Oct 3, 2021this is hella balanced but perhapes to make it more balanced people fear you so prices would be higher than usual if possible or people are less likely to help you
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Posted Aug 19, 2022Is so silly and fun 🤩
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Posted Jun 17, 2024I think mimics are really neat and recently I had the idea of playing as a mimic. This has made my day.
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Posted Jul 28, 2024This is pretty neat.