Homebrew Mimic Species Details
Physical Description
The true form of a mimic is an amorphous, brown mass with four beady red eyes and one large sharp-toothed mouth. A mimic can extend pseudopods, up to four at once, to move, manipulate, or even wield objects while in this form.
When a mimic takes the form of an object, it shapes its mass as appropriate and changes its texture; since it actually has little mass of its own, though, even including its stomachs, it can contain a surprising amount of material in either form. Intelligent mimics commonly carry their possessions within their form, rather than dragging a sack or trying to carry a backpack on nonexistent shoulders and usually take a vague form covered in layers of clothing and armor to hide their true monstrous form.
Mimic Traits
A more intelligent specimen of a well-known species of shapeshifting predators.Ability Score Increase
Mimics gain an increase to Strength, Constitution, and Wisdom by 1
Adhesive
As a Mimic, due to the sticky nature of your body, ability checks made to escape your grapple have disadvantage.
Amorphous
As a Mimic, due to the amorphous nature of your true form, you cannot benefit from armor, though you can use a shield. Your Armor Class is equal to 11 + your Dexterity modifier and you are immune to the prone condition.
Bite
As a Mimic, your maw is a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with it, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
Darkvision
As a Mimic, 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
As a Mimic, as an action, you can polymorph into an object of your Medium or Small size that you have seen, or back into your true form. While you remain motionless, as an object you are indistinguishable from an ordinary object. Your equipment does not change with you, however, it may be contained within you as long as your shape has the dimensions to accommodate it. If you die, you revert to your true form. You retain all of your normal statistics while in this form.
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