Homebrew Warforged Mimic Species Details

“Amazing!” Bert said. “A creature that's able to completely copy any humanoid made of artificial materials.”

“Shouldn't we kill it? It could turn on us at any moment.” Tari said.

“What makes you think I wouldn't?”

The warforged mimics were created to fight in Wilhelm's army. While the first warforged mimics were mindless creatures, created only to be tougher cannon fodder, they soon evolved to be much better at such things like retrieval and intel-gathering. An unexpected breakthrough produced sentient soldiers no longer driven purely by the need to feed, giving rise to a new population that not many feel that they can trust. Warforged mimics seem to be made from wood and metal at a first glance, but they are able to reveal a fleshy interior via their mouth. Created as weapons, they must now find a purpose beyond war. A warforged mimic can be a steadfast ally, a cold-hearted killer, or a visionary in search of meaning.

Living Steel and Flesh

Warforged mimics are formed from a blend of organic materials harvested from dead mimics, and inorganic metals harvested from destroyed constructs and warforged. Warforged mimics share a common facial design, with a hinged jaw and crystal eyes embedded beneath a reinforced brow ridge. Beyond these common elements of design, the precise materials and build of a warforged mimic vary based on the purpose for which it was designed.

Although they were manufactured, warforged mimics are living humanoids. Resting, healing magic, and the Medicine skill all provide the same benefits to warforged that they do to other humanoids.

Warforged Mimic Personality

The warforged mimics were built to serve and to fight. For most of their existence, warforged mimics had a clearly defined function and were encouraged to focus purely on that role. The fall of Wilhelm gave them freedom, but many still struggle both to find a place in the world and to relate to the creatures who created them.

The typical warforged mimic shows little emotion, but they do attempt to show enough to pass off as an average citizen. Not many warforged mimics embrace a concrete purpose — such as protecting allies, completing a contract, or exploring a land — and embrace this task. However, most warforged mimics who delight in exploring their feelings, their freedom, and their relationships with others. Most warforged mimics have no interest in religion, but some embrace faith and mysticism, seeking higher purpose and deeper meaning.

The typical warforged mimic has a sexless body shape. Some will ignore the concept of gender entirely, while others adopt a gender identity.

The more a warforged mimic develops its individuality, the more likely it is to modify its body, seeking out a person who has knowledge on how to customize the look of its original face, limbs, and plating.

Quirks

Warforged mimics often display an odd personality trait or two, given how new they are to the world. The Warforged Mimic Quirks table contains example quirks.

Warforged Mimic Quirks

Warforged Mimic Names

Most warforged Mimics were assigned numerical designations for use in military service. Many of them adopted nicknames, often given to them by their comrades. As independent individuals, some have chosen new names as a way to express their path in life. A few take on human names, often the name of a fallen friend or mentor. Some also take on the name of a common object.

Warforged Mimic Names: Anchor, Banner, Bastion, Blade, Blue, Bow, Cart, Chair, Church, Crunch, Crystal, Dagger, Dent, Five, Fork, Glaive, Hammer, Iron, Knife, Lucky, Mace, Oak, Onyx, Pants, Pierce, Plate, Pot, Red, Rod, Rusty, Scout, Seven, Shield, Slash, Smith, Spike, Spoon, Temple, Vault, Wall

Warforged Mimic Traits

Your warforged mimic character has the following traits. A few of the traits give you a choice; consider how your choice reflects the purpose for which your character was built.

Ability Score Increase

Your Constitution score increases by 2, and one other ability score of your choice increases by 1.

Age

A typical warforged mimic is between two and thirty years old. The maximum warforged mimic lifespan remains a mystery; so far, warforged mimics have shown no signs of deterioration due to age. You are immune to magical aging effects.

Alignment

Most warforged mimics take comfort in freedom and compassion, tending toward chaos and good. But some have absorbed the morality, or lack thereof, of the beings with which they served.

Size

Your size is Medium. To set your height and weight randomly, start with rolling a size modifier:

Size modifier = 2d6

Height = 5 feet + 10 inches + your size modifier in inches

Weight in pounds = 270 + (4 × your size modifier)

Speed

Your base walking speed is 30 feet.

Evolutionary Prowess

You were created to not be able to have any cheap shots pulled on you, represented by the following benefits:

• Magic can’t put you to sleep.
• The optional flanking rule doesn't cause attack roles against you to have advantage.
• If a creature were to attack you from hiding, it does not get advantage due to you not seeing it.

Sentry’s Rest

When you take a long rest, you must spend at least six hours in an inactive, motionless state, rather than sleeping. In this state, you appear inert, but it doesn’t render you unconscious, and you can see and hear as normal.

Integrated Protection

Your body has built-in defensive layers, which can be enhanced with armor:

• You gain a +1 bonus to Armor Class.
• You can don only armor with which you have proficiency. To don armor other than a shield, you must incorporate it into your body over the course of 1 hour, during which you remain in contact with the armor. To doff armor, you must spend 1 hour removing it. You can rest while donning or doffing armor in this way.
• While you live, the armor incorporated into your body can’t be removed against your will.

Specialized Design

You gain one skill proficiency and one tool proficiency of your choice.

Languages

You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.

Mimic Nature

As it comes with being a breed of mimic, you are able to do certain things that other mimics can do.

• You have advantage on grapple checks, and can use Acrobatics for grapple checks.
• You are able to change your physical appearance, but only in certain ways. As an action, you may change your physical appearance into either a warforged or a construct. You must have seen it before, and you gain no benefits from this change.
• You have advantage on Deception checks when trying to pass off as a warforged or construct that you currently look like.