Schrodinger's mimic. All chests are both treasure and monster until opened.
@moseszero3281
5 жыл бұрын
dom't forget the trapped chests too.
@Milshare
5 жыл бұрын
I absolutely love this!
@Dracobyte
4 жыл бұрын
So Dark Souls' mimics?
@skullcruncher76
4 жыл бұрын
Oft.
@nohandlemebruh
4 жыл бұрын
Cursed loot: the treasure is the monster
@moriskurth628
5 жыл бұрын
I once had a campaign that featured a troupe of traveling entertainers and bards that used tamed/befriended Mimics as props in their shows and everyday items when not on stage, for instance becoming a table and benches for the troupe to sit at during a meal, then eating the leftovers once they had finished, in addition to their usual feeding time (it was tteated as kind of a treat for the Mimics). The troupe also had several other Shapeshifters in it, like Doppelgangers and the like, as well as mages skilled with illusions that they all used to make their stage performances more convincing. For example, if the troupe needed a certain background prop, like a castle or a tower, a Mimic would change shape to a close approximation of the object needed, and the troupe would then either use illusions or simple paint to give it finishing touches (things like windows and banners), while the Doppelgangers would shift into the characters they intended to portray. Overall it was a creative use for Mimics and Shapeshifters that didn't involve combat. It's something you don't see often.
@Atamosk-bu7zt
5 жыл бұрын
that sounds legit asf! please share a story of the troupe's performance if you can remember it off-hand!
@Hyena_runner
4 жыл бұрын
Thats so cool
@jberrethful
4 жыл бұрын
How many people has that troupe killed...
@thecinemagician
4 жыл бұрын
That's awesome and I wanna use it...
@nuclearchezburgr3857
4 жыл бұрын
Stealing thi- I mean, BORROWING this idea XD
@acesnick6527
5 жыл бұрын
So the movie "Monster house" was really just a giant mimic 🤔
@voshsahaal6103
5 жыл бұрын
Mimic colony. Breeders.
@TheRealNekora
5 жыл бұрын
So glad someone else though like that and remembers that movie
@MegasLagann
5 жыл бұрын
@@TheRealNekora yoooooooooooo this was my favorite movie as a little kid
@clanof1144
5 жыл бұрын
Made out of the soul of that guys wife
@connierule3902
5 жыл бұрын
Okay but immagine whole town though! You enter a small village, a few buildings scattered about. There's no one walking around but the buildings seem to be in good repair. It doesn't look abandoned or, if it is, the people left very recently. What do you do? Then the whole town turns out to be a whole flock of mimics. The second the party tries to interact with a building they get stuck and the town comes to life. Literally.
@justdb4
5 жыл бұрын
Rogue: "Hey look, a chest in an empty room" Me: begins to sweat as we all enter the empty room Rogue: "Hey the chest disappeared" DM: "the door closes and entire room begins to move roll initiative"
@BEEEES
4 жыл бұрын
The door is a mimic!?
@J0hnB09
3 жыл бұрын
@@BEEEES no the *room* is a mimic.
@BeaglzRok1
2 жыл бұрын
Fun fact, there used to be a spell called There/Not There. Everyone got to have a different perception of whether an object existed or not!
@lordm0918
5 жыл бұрын
"Man this dungeon is tough! Hey look, a comfy bed! Things are looking up!"
@viix3815
5 жыл бұрын
I made one that took the form of a toilet for my campaign. Everyone was super paranoid for the rest of it. How many bars did they go to that everyone was giving them the weirdo eye cause they kept poking toilets with their swords..
@lordphobius3876
5 жыл бұрын
Well there goes our barbarian.....
@Rafaelrgm
5 жыл бұрын
Polnareff
@That80sGuy1972
5 жыл бұрын
I actually did that in one of my campaigns, a Mimic bed. It was the cleanest bed in a former Goblin bunker. The leader of the party decided that bed was his. While the party was sleeping, the bed popped open its mouth (length of bed) and let the leader fall in and closed its mouth. I pulled the player off to the side to determine the fight from the inside, the party would hear nothing until he did enough damage to have small holes that would let sound escape. The player character lost... barely. The doppelganger partner of that mimic climbed into the "bed" and slept the rest of the night. On the way out of the dungeon, the leader offered his bed (doppelganger, played by the eaten player) to another party member. That character got eaten too but made noises the party could hear. Another doppelganger hopped in the "bed" and pretended to have a thrashing nightmare in the new victim's form. It was on the adventure home that the party was ambushed by the "exit bad guys" of the adventure. That was when the doppelgangers showed their true colors by shape changing into two of the living party members and attacked. The Mimic and the Doppelgangers were the weakest monsters of the adventure and their antics nearly annihilated the whole party. Like Vii X in another comment via toilets, beds were not trusted for a long, long time. My players also were forever suspect of any situation that I took other players out of the room for talk and rolling.
@SollyTrue
5 жыл бұрын
It's a Lawful-Good Barbarian trap... no wonder those are so rare
@shaunbarber2325
5 жыл бұрын
“Watch out, the table is a mimic!” *the house laughs*
@aydenbonvillain4690
5 жыл бұрын
me and my sword mimic: GOSH BLOODY DARN IT WE'RE BOTH DEAD
@water2205
5 жыл бұрын
@@tthung8668 *THE UNIVERSE LAUGHS*
@kelotte8904
5 жыл бұрын
*Existance laughs*
@WorldWalker128
4 жыл бұрын
@@tthung8668 That's about what I thought when I played Slime Rancher. I came to the conclusion that the planet I was on was a giant Slime, and the Slime-moon was offpsring from the planet dividing....and then it froze solid and began orbiting its (literal) parent planet.
@justtaylor8204
4 жыл бұрын
theunnamedgamer 187 *The table your playing on laughs*
@josephdoria5237
5 жыл бұрын
Party member #1: “Check that chest to make sure it’s not a mimic.” Party member #2: *stabs perfectly normal chest* “We’re fine, it’s not a mimic.” Mimic disguised as loot inside the chest: *silent maniacal laughing*
@elathiaskade7311
4 жыл бұрын
We must go deeper
@xxweirdofromspacexx1119
4 жыл бұрын
Party member #2: *opens chest* what’s this weird magical-looking book- AAHAAHHAGGGH!
@minnion2871
4 жыл бұрын
@@xxweirdofromspacexx1119 They kill the book mimic only to not realize the hat that was in the chest with it was another mimic..... kzitem.info/news/bejne/s2iF4IyJnXOemqQ
@andyghkfilm2287
11 ай бұрын
@@elathiaskade7311a SWARM of mimics, all resembling a tiny coin of gold!
@imrgrimmi1659
5 жыл бұрын
Mimics are incredibly heavy and can hang from ceilings... So... Does that make the pissed off heavy stone blocks that slam downward in Mario... Mimics?
@kridocaign5722
5 жыл бұрын
Thwomps have levitation magic, so they would have to be a relative.
@imrgrimmi1659
5 жыл бұрын
@@kridocaign5722 I dunno. It is a 2d platformer. Maybe they're actually crawling up the rear wall?
@kridocaign5722
5 жыл бұрын
Mario 64. Mario Kart.
@killstrike-zn1lv
5 жыл бұрын
Dear god.
@retosius7962
5 жыл бұрын
they're based off of a wall yokai that won't let you pass unless you kill it by tapping it's bottom with a stick. it's called a nurikabe.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurikabe
@jacobweiss9513
4 жыл бұрын
After learning about the "common mimic" I'm really inspired to make a mimic salesperson I can imagine the adventures coming into the shop and as they ask where the shopkeeper is the door starts talking
@mr.tatortot6469
5 жыл бұрын
Idea: A Tarrasque that is just a colony of mimics
@NWLR-tv
5 жыл бұрын
GOD HAVE MERCY ON OUR SOULS!
@Thalia_Aquaticaa
4 жыл бұрын
Oh no
@SeaJay_Oceans
4 жыл бұрын
Entire dark forest village that is just a mimic colony... The local 'townies' are all in on it too - they live inside the mimic huts and buildings, in a symbiotic relationship. The village dwellers spread tall tales of adventure, wine, women, and song ... when adventurers show up - they get to spend the night in a 'Free' cabin... The mimics take turns being the empty house, and eat the adventurers and their horses. The villagers take all the loot, carefully unharmed by the mimic. You could give tiny hints to the players as such: 1. The horses are spooked, and you must leave them on the edge of town, they refuse to enter. 2. Odd, your players notice something strange: there are no cats or dogs in the town. 3. There is a weapons and armor shop, well stocked, filled with shiny clean, like new weapons and gear, as if cleaned and polished carefully ready for sale. ( lots of low level magics +1 this and that.) 4. No birds sing in this town... (lands on roof, sticks, gets eaten)
@thealientree3821
3 жыл бұрын
@@SeaJay_Oceans Bonus: The village dwellers are actually changelings, and assumes your form after you get eaten by a mimic.
@SeaJay_Oceans
3 жыл бұрын
@@thealientree3821 You are brilliant... :-) Even for the players that are not consumed: ''You prepare to mount your horse, but something just doesn't seem right, maybe it was the long cold night, the horses seem indifferent to you..." Changeling horses ! Talk about a surprise attack, from right below your saddle ! A traveling attacker : the horses are changelings, the wagon is a mimic, holding two real wheels.
@4skynRotter
5 жыл бұрын
In older editions a mimic could be pretty much anything, including dead players. Im suprised this wasnt mentioned
@sadwingsraging3044
4 жыл бұрын
Seems to me the newer editions have sorta nailed everything down and molded them into a created reality rather than letting the DM extrapolate and create on his own. Seems like the game stuffs you into the box rather than letting you think outside the mimic.
@TheLearningDroid
4 жыл бұрын
@@sadwingsraging3044 i mean the books are a guideline, you can make your mimics however you want. :D such as herbavore mimics with little babies that the party kill the mom mimic and then have appolexy of emotion when they realise it was trying to hide from them not hunt and it had babies :D....
@NickCharabaruk
4 жыл бұрын
@@TheLearningDroid Duuuuude, you're evil :P
@TheLearningDroid
4 жыл бұрын
@@NickCharabaruk wait till you hear about my magical sword mimic the party carried round for 6 months out of game before it got hungry and tried to eat them
@gmradio2436
2 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the Dark Souls meme of the bonefire mimic.
@themadhacker9376
5 жыл бұрын
Hey bard, can you do a 'mimic check'? Bard: Hmm? oh sure *pulls out instrument, clears throat* WHERE DID YA COME FROM WHERE DID YA GO?!.........Chest: WHERE DID YA COME FROM COTTON EYED JOE! *murders chest*
@Andrew-ih2gz
5 жыл бұрын
I read this and immediately thought of the chest starting to bounce side to side while flapping it's lid to the music. Gorgeous.
@lemonlupinreuben5362
5 жыл бұрын
Why would you not try to tame a singing chest and ride around as a circus troupe?
@liquidchameleon5993
5 жыл бұрын
Bard: Mama just killed man. Put a gun against his head Chest: Pulled my trigger and now he's dead....fuck
@jirkau555
5 жыл бұрын
@SaiyanPride There is another way, your own songs/poetry
@blainewheaton9679
5 жыл бұрын
@@jirkau555 such performance takes great bravery, talent, and (dare I say) inspiration.
@Kydrou
5 жыл бұрын
I once had a Mimic Door appear in a dungeon. It ate hands of 3 players...
@unluckycatfish6866
5 жыл бұрын
"Ow I lost my hand trying to open this door" "Let me try. Owie." "I will open the door. Ow. It seems that we are dealing with a mimic"
@itsflyde
5 жыл бұрын
UnLucky Catfish They figured that out not because of the severed hands and now profusely bleeding stumps but because they saw the mimics teeth :p
@unluckycatfish6866
5 жыл бұрын
@@itsflyde "Whats with this do- OOH ITS SMILING IS A MIMIC"
@viix3815
5 жыл бұрын
I made one that took the form of a toilet for my campaign. Everyone was super paranoid for the rest of it. How many bars did they go to that everyone was giving them the weirdo eye cause they kept poking toilets with their swords.. (Repost).
@chairmanMeovw
5 жыл бұрын
I once had one appear as a door in the middle of a plowed field... ... Our mercenary soldier PC got uppity and burned it.
@TheTrueFeleas
5 жыл бұрын
Kobolds in 1 dungeon my party went through somehow figured out how to herd and trap Mimics inside a storage room that had only 1 exit with holes up in the ceiling. Our party being weary from adventuring through the trap-filled dungeon since Kobolds oh so love traps found the storage room filled with crates, barrels, and chests and decided to use the area for a long rest. As we slept Kobolds locked the storage room from the outside and started bombarding us with slings from the holes in the ceiling. Then the Mimics attacked. Half the objects in the room was Mimics....
@leyrua
5 жыл бұрын
If you ever come across a room full of perfectly identical chairs... run for your life.
@JCMPRadio
5 жыл бұрын
The Pathfinder Bestiary describes some rare mimics as being dungeon sized, mimicking dungeons.
@LordZonar
5 жыл бұрын
Fuck. That.
@theepicspy570
5 жыл бұрын
@@LordZonar agreed.
@AmaryInkawult
5 жыл бұрын
My Mimic Whisperer Sorcerer character: *heavy breathing intensifies*
@Jamesjones-hi5qu
5 жыл бұрын
Lea: The cave is collapsing! Han: this is no cave.
@aluksus9327
5 жыл бұрын
@@AmaryInkawult tame dungeon sized mimic and conqueror all world lol(you could also just live in it comfy)
@angelafwuffycuddles5806
5 жыл бұрын
Im just imagining a dnd session where everyone is a mimic working together to act as a single person.
@dovakhiinmaster2967
3 жыл бұрын
This is a wonderful idea
@Voldrim359
3 жыл бұрын
I don't think that is how it works, mimics just wait until the prey come nearby, but doppelgangers don't
@Pip8448
Жыл бұрын
@@Voldrim359 A mimic is large enough, they could disguise themselves as large humanoids in full plate (but made of stone) and claim their low speed was due to the weight of their stone armor. Their size would easily account for them being able to swing huge weapons that do plenty of damage to be worth keeping them in the party. ?
@kawbmxful
5 жыл бұрын
This is just fueling the fire of me running an awakened mimic sorcerer. The chaotic-HONGRY good boy
@General12th
5 жыл бұрын
*H E H O N G R I*
@cameronscott9399
5 жыл бұрын
I'm in a party with a mimic bard :)
@itonieshi
5 жыл бұрын
@@cameronscott9399 Ahh yes, the fabled siren, luring people to their do... Wait that's no siren! THAT BE BOOTY!
@matteussilvestre8583
5 жыл бұрын
Sorcerer Mimic saves villagers' bacon. They pay Mimic later... with bacon.
@kawbmxful
5 жыл бұрын
I figure, human sized ball jointed doll, flowy robes, and coat tails hide the eldritch horror underneath, and a porcelain mask to hide the fact that instead of face its TEEF.
@olderon66
5 жыл бұрын
I always make the mimics bargain with the players. In low level parties it's always fun because they know if they don't, they're not gonna have a good time.
@shaesullivan
5 жыл бұрын
Mimic = Slime + Chameleon + Elmer's glue.
@retosius7962
5 жыл бұрын
ya forgot the artisan drunk as well!
@BrunhildrSquirrel
4 жыл бұрын
In my last D&D game we came across a trio of friendly, magically altered mimics! One was a chest but ate gold (this horrified me) one was a dagger sheath that ate iron daggers (this one actually accompanied my character after the campaign for tasty treats!) and the last one was a ring that ate fingers... (this one horrified me slightly more but as I said she was friendly!)
@HimitsuYami
5 жыл бұрын
I want to see "what they don't tell you about shadows" you know, that CR ¼ monster with the strength drain?
@lcronovt
5 жыл бұрын
The melee killer?
@CombatSportsNerd
5 жыл бұрын
That's a thing?
@CombatSportsNerd
5 жыл бұрын
@@jonnybrandony8242 WHAT?!
@lordhawkeye
5 жыл бұрын
Shadows on a successful hit also drain 1d4 str from a character. Once a character hits 0 str they are dead. A few hits from these guys with high rolls on the drain will kill any player. Good times.
@stockvillain
5 жыл бұрын
Don't forget, the bastards are also incorporeal, so they can pop out of a wall, drain strength, pop back into the wall, rinse and repeat and *never* give the PCs a chance at hitting it. They are brutal AF.
@sirxobsidian408
5 жыл бұрын
2:38 Rhexx: "The creature's basic color is that of a speckled gray; a color that looks very much like gray knight" Me: Wait, what *sees stones* HOLY SHIT HE MEANT GRANITE
@rogerwilco2
3 жыл бұрын
Yeah, he seems to have a weird way of butchering the pronunciation of some words.
@imchoosingnottoexist6894
5 жыл бұрын
A lycanthrope warlock in the game I run hits doors with a fish so he knows they arent mimics
@RaidianaS
5 жыл бұрын
He’ll never forget the day he saw a mimic door eating fish. Never.
@ArkGeo
4 жыл бұрын
Friend paid a silver piece for a canary bird, told him it was a waster of money. In dungeon, released it aimed at door... door ate canary. Murder "door" from 30 feet away... Best SP spent that campaign.
@noahjacoby-twigg6488
5 жыл бұрын
watching this gives me an idea: a common mimic that has been trained to protect an important character. it takes the form of a bed, and if someone tries to harm the character, the mimic attacks them.
@jackalope2302
3 жыл бұрын
I had mimic disguised as a weapon rack. Full of magic weapons.
@dave1411
4 жыл бұрын
that ship mimic at 9:31 just makes me want to have players learning of some sort of ghost ship that travels the water. It travels, some say it pilots itself, others that a crew of monsters serve aboard, but all agree that facing it is a true battle. Sounds like a fun story arc
@Snowmon89
5 жыл бұрын
Here's the thing about the glue. If the Mimic spreads itself enough then the glue might be able to hold it up because each section of the creature is excreating it AND spreads it out across it's body. Not to mention not every mimic is the size of a Rhinosaurus. (Aka their weights can vary.) Although, like you said, that was with the early editions. They probably changed it because this made the Mimics a tad TOO powerful for what they were/are. It's the same reason creatures such as Scarecrows were changed so that they tend to be solidary hunters instead of as packs. I think that we should all find ourselves lucky that it's not like The Blob, the Stuff, or The Thing. Those are greatly more terrifying than Mimics...
@nobodyimportant2470
5 жыл бұрын
Correct on spreading out. Surface area can make a huge difference in hold. You can lift a car with duct tape but you need to use a lot and have as much surface area contact as possible for the adhesive to hold for each strip.
@boxtank5288
5 жыл бұрын
They're Slimes, Mimics and Changelings at their logical extreme.
@acardboardbox3610
5 жыл бұрын
Adhesive? So throw rocks at stuff made of stone or wood and see if it sticks. If so, give it the player who tries to bang the monsters
@kacpercicharski3431
5 жыл бұрын
Why
@J0hnB09
3 жыл бұрын
@@kacpercicharski3431 what else are you going to do with a mimic? Actually kill it like a real adventurer?
@the_last_ballad
2 жыл бұрын
@@kacpercicharski3431 to get rid of them
@Jayrichman18
5 жыл бұрын
Woah, this is amazing. I have a tower dungeon campaign I’m about to start running and there will definitely be a “merchant” mimic on a floor.
@howler5483
5 жыл бұрын
I’m definitely using this in my next campaign thanks for the useful info😊
@TerrariaGolem
5 жыл бұрын
If you haven't since your first... It's too late to be a loving DM
@fran3ro
5 жыл бұрын
Some ideas this video gave me: - Mimic that pretend to be a statue, maybe near a Medusa or other petrifying monster - Mimic that pretend to be a tree near a cave entrance, maybe arranging the place to look comfy enough to camp. Player go take a piss, never comes back. - Mimic in cahoots with evil inn keeper. The inn keeper look if the client is wealthy or have something of value and offer him the best room. That room's bed is a Mimic that eat the client and the inn keeper keeps the valuables (only if client came alone)
@michaelwhit1059
5 жыл бұрын
People: Add - he - siv MrRhexx: A D E E S I V E
@xandan1668
5 жыл бұрын
Don't make fun of accents friend.
@billyrigby4839
5 жыл бұрын
People: Granite MrRhexx: Grey-night...lol I actually love his accent, and most accents tbh.
@K_i_t_t_y84
5 жыл бұрын
@@xandan1668 We'd never. We're enjoying his accent. We love them!
@michaelwhit1059
5 жыл бұрын
@@xandan1668 I would never :^)
@NathanTAK
5 жыл бұрын
I haven't been able to place his accent yet, but if he's French, he might not have the technique for /h/ down.
@Qardo
5 жыл бұрын
People dismiss the Mimic. Yet they stop laughing after the rogue in the party is eaten by a treasure chest. Or in my case my DP had a Mimic grapple my Halfling Paladin, punched him, and then processed to die after every ranger in the group started shooting arrows into it...I have a very ranger heavy party. Let us just say. The Door Mimic did not last half a round. By the way. My Paladin didn't feel the damn punch. Though did "Scare" him. As doors do not grapple. So after that moment. Every door met Mister Holy Axe. No, more Mimic Problems...or door problems for that adventure. Yes, even the Ranger/Rogue asked: Want me to lockpick it? I the Paladin: *Processed to hack the door* HEEEEEERRRRREEEE'S JOHNNY! *Confused screams in the room of evil monsters*
@Voldrim359
3 жыл бұрын
Even if doors aren' t mimic, they could still been warded, do you have a mage to check for it?
@InquisitorShepard
4 жыл бұрын
So a mimic need about two human size food to be sustained. Let me introduce you to Mordenkainen's Magnificent Mansion. For 15 gold worth of component, you can summon a place to rest and more importantly "It contains sufficient food to serve a nine course banquet for up to 100 people."
@roibenblitz6863
5 жыл бұрын
what are these "Add- eesive" and "gray-knight" you speak of edit: apparently this joke could have been longer.
@DrewBorrowdale
5 жыл бұрын
The Tiny Mimic in pathfinder is a familiar :D
@thegeniusdumbass4491
5 жыл бұрын
I need to play pathfinder now
@Andrew-ih2gz
5 жыл бұрын
Once had a party enter a town where there were an inordinate amount of people missing fingers. Not caring so much, the party's rogue saw a flashily dressed wizard bending over, perusing an alchemist's market stall; his coin purse out for everyone to see. Our rogue "bumped" into him in an attempt to pilfer the poor man's purse. Upon retrieving his hand he was taken aback in great horror that his index finger was missing alongside half his thumb. Our friend, the wizard, stored his coins in his pet mimic's mouth. Anyone other than him who placed their fingers inside, swiftly had them removed. Our rogue fainted. Lmao
@DrewBorrowdale
5 жыл бұрын
i once ran a 2ed game that mostly took part in a mansion, inside there was ornate furniture and sometimes things would move rooms, or not be in the same place as expected from the night before. The players where tasked with finding out what was going on here as towns people had been going missing, leaving behind only the odd shoe or hand basket in and around the mansions grounds. the players spent some time within the house expecting demons or undead. they put the moving objects and chairs down to spooky goings on. turned out the mansion was in and of itself a giant mother mimic and all the chaise lounge and trouser presses were its little mimic young.
@leyrua
5 жыл бұрын
My party's druid adopted a tiny mimic that was imitating the cash-register in a shop. She taught it to become a chandelier and drop on people. It was also a kleptomaniac, so occasionally she'd wake up with more gold then she started with...
@jberrethful
4 жыл бұрын
Everybody gangsta, till the chest starts laughing.
@troyskeete8372
5 жыл бұрын
I watched this video in my new house in the living room with my friends. My friends laughed, I laughed, the table laughed... We killed the table. It really was a good time!
@Beigemage0621
5 жыл бұрын
7:15 "Now that ... is a Sh*t eating grin" Edit: Also, that moment when you realize Marvel's Venom is a mimic... Mind blown.
@kennethultimate02
4 жыл бұрын
I have the same thoughts. Selena of mobile legend has a symbiote that looks like a mimic
@AkuTenshiiZero
5 жыл бұрын
I've had my campaign on the sea for the past few sessions, and I had the idea of having my group come across a giant mimic disguised as an abandoned ship, even found a great CR11 stat block. I'm thinking something that has been roaming the seas for a long time, growing and becoming more intelligent, gathering up objects like crates and furniture to make it seem more normal. I'm gonna lure my group onto the ship and let them be paranoid for awhile until it just opens up this massive maw in the deck and tries to swallow them. A few clues might tip them off, like a slightly sticky slime on the surface, and a lantern in the crows nest which, if examined up close, turns out to be a bio-luminescent organ like an angler fish.
@Tofu-4-You
5 жыл бұрын
I remember adventuring and coming across a house in the woods along a relatively main path. We inspected it to see if we could rest there for the night. Turns out the house itself was a mimic, and the furniture was it's babies.
@sainttan
5 жыл бұрын
MIMICS inspired Prop Hunts, and the monster (Mimic, Typhon Cacoplasmus) in Prey.
@wont_judge6746
5 жыл бұрын
My Story with a Mimic. “The Biter” So I was playing a game of D&D a couple weeks ago and we were running through a custom Campaign forgot what it name was. So we were in a cave and saw some crates in a corner so I went over and looked through. I opened the crates and all I found was food such as Pumpkins, apples, Pears, Grapes... lots of Grapes and Bananas. I was hungry so I reached for a pear AND THEN! An apple WAS A MIMIC and Bite my finger not taking it off BUT HURTING LOTS! Killed on my turn by ripping it off which took my skin and threw it at the wall with a 18 (16 +2) it died. So watch out for mimics always second check. To say.... “Mimics can be anything from Grapes to Lakes or Ponds so always watch out.” -My DM So any Mimic can be small to Like Castles! We laughed the whole way out of that session!
@CaptainSpanky96
5 жыл бұрын
Seeing that table mimic makes me want to have a campaign where the party has a tamed one in their home. The party comes home from a long day adventuring and just have a chat around 'Jub Jub' the talking table. They use him to guard some of their valuables, and if he isn't fed in a long time, he starts nipping at people's shins until they get the idea.
@angryduck5
5 жыл бұрын
Your videos are always such good inspiration for dming. I just ran a game where there was a massive war between the good and evil dragons and my players loved it and particularly got a kick out of the lore I knew about the dragon types because of your videos
@arcturus8896
5 жыл бұрын
I've never played D&D but my first exposure to weird fantasy world stuff was the mimic and I immediately fell in love with it. It's my 2nd favorite fantasy creature right next to goblins.
@DamnCyberSquatters
4 жыл бұрын
That bit about the strength needed to pull away from a mimic versus the fact that they can suspend their own body weight - I think that can be reconciled via two words: "surface area".
@DominicCuda
5 жыл бұрын
MrRhexx, thanks for another great video. I gotta say though, I'm surprised nobody has mentioned my boy, Boxxy T. Morningwood, the awakened mimic warlock and chosen champion of the god of chaos, nor even a single comment about tasty and/or shiny things.
@ItsAVolcano
3 жыл бұрын
Used this video to help my friend set up an encounter for his DnD group. They stumbled upon an old worn-down village and could only find a handful of people throughout, although they would hear frequent hushed conversations behind nearly every closed door they found. It turned out the buildings in the village were all mimics faking voices with the handful of real people being a group of bandits who'd developed an uneasy alliance with them, bringing in adventurers to feed to the mimics while they looted the bodies.
@simcptmike
5 жыл бұрын
This was really interesting. The change process especially, in reference to the amount of time it could take.
@MisterDantastic
5 жыл бұрын
I really like how you say "Mediocre at best!" Makes him sound like the f*cking boss.
@fortatom118
5 жыл бұрын
Once I delt with a mimic, I used magic to bring the ceiling down on it. Killed it instantly
@harbinger8208
5 жыл бұрын
Man I love these video, it's like reading 5 versions of a monster out of the MM with Lore to boot. Thanks for making them.
@petranadon6324
5 жыл бұрын
You should check out the book "Morningwood: Everybody Loves Large Chests"
@ninjabaiano6092
5 жыл бұрын
Yup great book. Very funny but the succubus part is kinda irky to me.
@blindlibrarian8956
2 жыл бұрын
In an old dungeon magazine there used to be a listing for a group of house size mimic(s) that formed an inn or small village along deserted stretches of roads ...always loved that idea
@Laoruperteen18
5 жыл бұрын
I used a fireplace mimic in my story :P go on, light it up, be warm and comfortable.
@someguyinjeans5273
5 жыл бұрын
2:23 So it looks like the blob that ate everything from the goosebumps show
@iridadene4344
5 жыл бұрын
One of my better mimics disguised itself as a magical dress, when the parties sorceress put it on, things took a strange turn. Never before had I seen a DND combat about trying to get someone out of a dress go so hilariously thanks to bad rng. This was meant to be a combat encounter for a spooky mansion, but the spectral haunter of the mimics home was so entertained by the horrible flailing of the entire party that she actually passed on from laughter, for story related reasons.
@hoi-polloi1863
Жыл бұрын
I can just see it... Sorceress: Aaaah! I can't get out of this dress! Bard: THIS. IS. MY. HOUR.
@johnzambrano3722
5 жыл бұрын
mrRhexx can you do a video about what they don't tell you about character races. what i mean is like all the playable races in the game. I love the one you did about the dragonborn.
@elricengquist9989
5 жыл бұрын
Had a fun adventure with a group of players going into a massive abandoned manor that people were going missing in, as such the local mayor contracted them to investigate what was going on there, and if it was possible put a stop to it. It was fun as for the first long while as they investigated the manor they found it pretty much perfectly intact (mind you the town people said that it was abandoned for ten years), and had them make wisdom an con saves every 5-10 mins of in game time tallying the failures an successes up. Then they start to have to deal with the furniture and what have you in the rooms attacking them, and finding their getting penalties based on how many failures they had to their con saves. In the end they find out the manor was one huge ancient mimic filled with baby mimics that had split off from it, and the massive mimic was slowly digesting them as they investigating the manor.
@Randomdudefromtheinternet
4 жыл бұрын
Maybe a small or tiny sized mimic could be persuaded into helping by changing into tools (stuff like binoculars and weapons), but I wonder if they could become stuff like wings or tentacles (or at the very least a gliding suit). Medium size seems too much mass for what it's needed, but maybe the players could sever a small/tiny sized chunk of it and train it/deal a bargain (probably no one will miss those bandits)
@erberor8007
5 жыл бұрын
...Are you saying there could be drop mimics?
@itsashane1552
5 жыл бұрын
Daniel Early chandelier mimic
@Atamosk-bu7zt
5 жыл бұрын
@@itsashane1552 ceiling mimic, twice the weight of chandelier mimic, half the thiccness. one could say that's two tons of fun!
@mentalrebllion1270
Жыл бұрын
Decided to watch this video because I adopted a pet mimic last session and named it Munchie. Befriended it with lots of food (just had gone hunting recently so I had quite a lot of rations made). My character knows undercommon so they had a conversation and the previous “owner” was not well liked by the mimic and so my character, with way too high rolls, quickly befriended it. The construct pseudodragon my character picked up now uses the mimic as a place to put their hoard (a bunch of dog toys, mostly) inside the mimic and since it is a construct, not organic, this is a cute arrangement between the two pets of my character. Mostly use the mimic as security but also spend time talking with and making sure to regularly feed it too. Sometimes it turns into a backpack and gets taken with my ranger on hunting trips so it can do some actual live hunting too. The two got a good relationship so far and I hope it continues to be good. Still, I wanted to research some lore so I am watching this video.
@Bofrab
5 жыл бұрын
Are you able to talk about either Giants, Hags, Lizardfolk, or the Phoenix please?
@SkeletonwithaController
Жыл бұрын
Bro I don’t think you understand how much we love you man
@DemonKingVI
5 жыл бұрын
Ha! "If you find a medium sized mimic, it probably is one that just came out of a seperation" yeah! That Bi*** took it for everything!
@allenkeith7160
Жыл бұрын
I remember that Mimics could burrow their bodies into the ground or a wall so that only part of them was visible, thus allowing a 2-ton Mimic to imitate a smaller chest (or a door) and be less conspicuous.
@ironrose6
5 жыл бұрын
1) make a cave with a big pit 2) make a large mimic 3) insert large mimic into pit 4) insert alchemy jug into mimic 5) have mimic use the alchemy jug to make its max amount of acid each day 6) have mimic pretend to be the ground and an inconspicuous journal or something innocuous but intriguing in the center 7) party walks onto mimic to investigate book 8) mimic opens mouth, party falls and is grappled in a pool of acid 9) change your name, move towns, and find a new hobby to escape the wrath of your players
@Ryusuta
4 жыл бұрын
I actually had a cleric in Pathfinder that ended up befriending a mimic during an adventure. She's very pure-hearted (and charismatic) and when she found the mimic, instead of trying to open the chest, she returned it where it belonged to. When the chest was revealed to be a mimic, the party drew their weapons and got ready fight it, but Sapphire (the cleric) refused to fight the mimic, as it had done her no harm. The mimic had an eccentric personality and decided to tag along, being both an asset as well as an occasional nuisance to the party. I could tell a lot of anecdotes about Mimic. Suffice it to say, it's definitely become one of my favorite stories. =) Edit: Keep in mind, Mimics have a much higher intelligence rating in Pathfinder, are somewhat smaller, and are considered True Neutral.
@kinagrill
Жыл бұрын
I've had a group where I put a whole dungeon of mimics - even goldpiles and gembundles were mimics! but primarily it was the drapes, the curtains, the rugs, etc. that were the enemies that the players after a while finally figured out how to deal with. :p Although it was more of a mix of regular Mimics and other likewise monsters like the.. what, cloaker I think it's called? and those animated armors.
@frosttroll3411
5 жыл бұрын
I walked into the library, and the librarian said to me Librarian: why do you have weapons Me: mimics The librarian told me to The book laughed,we laughed, I killed the book
@jan_harald
5 жыл бұрын
you broke that joke
@dallen3000
5 жыл бұрын
I'm so confused, could you retell the joke, but... Better? I'd the librarian a mimic? Why would they ask, if they're the one who told you to bring weapons? But if the librarian is a mimic, why is a book laughing? Are there 2 mimics?
@zwii_819
6 ай бұрын
this gave me the idea of mimics dropping from the rafters disguised as chests that fall and hit the party knocking them out then eating them
@russmastermasterofrusses7463
2 жыл бұрын
I once saw a piece of fan art for a massive tower mimic, and I had the idea for a session. Your tasked with searching a mysterious tower, where it shows around the continent, and nobody has ever managed to fully explore it. Outside, you see a few trees with corpses lying besides them, only for them to attack if you get to close. the tree trunk pulls the corpse inside it, and is actually a mimic. Afterwards, you go inside the tower, and the door shuts behind you. Inside, you find adventurer corpses, a lot of weapons, and a suspicious number of health potions. You encounter multiple mimics in the tower, and when you try to drink a potion, it reveals itself to be a parasitic mimic, that functions basically like the face hugger from alien. Eventually, the tower starts rumbling around you, and as you escape, the tower reveals itself as a massive mimic.
@blackopszombiehunt10
5 жыл бұрын
Since we're on the road of Dark Souls, please do myceloids/mushroom people next.
@shapeshifterstudios884
3 жыл бұрын
I don't have the band width to get lost in D&D lore as much these days. Your channel helped me deliver a 🔥 gaming experience & even told me things I didn't know. Even had our own real bard & a cooking pot for visual aid 🤣 Ty
@thecakewuzalie
5 жыл бұрын
its skin looks like Grey Knight ...by the emperor
@tracey5324
2 жыл бұрын
I still remember a campaign where we had a 'domesticated' mimic with us because it had realised we fed it daily if it let us carry it around. The DM would have us roll perception each morning for what it had decided to be that day- then we would have to argue about how to lug said item about (thankfully a smaller-than-average one). His crowning achievement was when he was sleeping as a spare adventurer's pack and ate a burglar. There was a lot of discussion about trying to train it to take certain shapes, but he was either too stupid or simply refused to follow instruction most of the time (or the DM liked to watch us drag a boulder through the town trying to explain to innkeepers why it couldnt be left in the stable)
@coltindreger
5 жыл бұрын
I would like to see a rust monster :p
@sea_triscuit7980
3 жыл бұрын
In the Icespire Peak book, the Gnomengarde Quest uses a Mimic. The weight of it never crossed my mind. It's absolutely terrifying haha
@soulfood2473
5 жыл бұрын
I run a half mimic character in dnd and this video makes me wanna rewrite some checks for him, thank you. If you could do a kitsune one as well id love to see it :)
@khemeher
3 жыл бұрын
If you really like mimics, there is a series out there called, "Everyone Loves Large Chests" and the main character is Boxxy T Morningwood, a mimic.
@migueldelmazo5244
5 жыл бұрын
Mimic toilets. You're welcome DMs.
@chaosmastermind
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, too bad literally nobody ever takes a dump in D&D, like ever.
@rossnorris2351
4 жыл бұрын
I learned things...about the Mimic that I didn't know before. And one that makes a plan one of my characters had much more reasonable. Thank you.
@christopherconard2831
4 жыл бұрын
Mimic paranoia is fun. I had a group that found a large chest. The contents were valuable, but heavy. So they left it until later. When they went back the chest was gone. One player shouted "It was a mimic", and the rest bought in. In fact they were being followed by a pair of thieves who planned to attack when the party was weakened. But instead just stole the chest. There was no attempt at stealth for the rest of the session. They were beating on every wall, ceiling, and door they passed. Everything within hundreds of yards heard them.
@SkywalkerWroc
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for using metric units as well. Really helps with understanding the content and happens too rarely among American KZitemrs.
@michaelw.5890
5 жыл бұрын
"Graynight" d-do you mean granite?
@tezla6332
5 жыл бұрын
And the way he said delicacy
@tlozfreak888
3 жыл бұрын
A note about glue; depending on how it works, it can be very easy to remove a glued object from another. Some glues are not very strong in some directions, or rather, against specific forces, such as shear force vs compression. Glues tend to be VERY good at compression, but not so much at shear. That is to say, pushing it sideways would do more than pulling it off.
@darcraven01
4 жыл бұрын
I had an idea where a mage took dns from the mimic and from spiders and mixed it with gold ore and created small mimic spiders that turns into gold coins... then loaded a chest full of them (like, hundreds) as a trap for bandits and the like.
@IICubeII
5 жыл бұрын
“Day-lick-a-sees”
@Kyser666
4 жыл бұрын
these are some of the best Videos about D&D i have ever seen, i wish you did a series from A to Z from the monster Manual+more
@techpriestemily
5 жыл бұрын
... this gives me an idea for an encounter. Especially the common mimic part.
@zodbones
5 жыл бұрын
Quite interesting. Never thought mimics could be so tough, smart, and huge.
@techpriestemily
5 жыл бұрын
Same. I thought they were a lot dumber, smaller, and weaker.
@Nazo-kage
3 жыл бұрын
I actually had this idea of a ghost ship, The standard look, (ripped sails, no crew, foreboding presence.) slams into the ship the heroes are on and become stuck. The heroes board the boat, expecting animated skeletons and ghosts, but they instead discover that the ghost ship is actually a giant mimic. Even the cannon balls are individual mimics. (The ship actually fires them whenever it comes near land as a way of reproducing.
@lifeafterreset2051
3 жыл бұрын
Wish mimic colonies were mentioned but like all the others, loved it
@perigrin6
5 жыл бұрын
From stereotypical gameplay, I always assumed the bargaining mimics were the really rare type. I might try to make a dungeon with a few mimics that have a hierarchy and give a quest to get rid of one of the rare killers.
@annabellethepitty
5 жыл бұрын
Granite is prounounced "gran-it."
@jigokusagent
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks to the awesome information in this very well-researched video, I have decided to homebrew my slimes/puddings and mimics a bit. I took the basic facts and combined them a bit with the Kandra/mistwraiths from the Mistborn series: A slime spends its young life mindlessly consuming organic matter and storing the non-nutrient-rich parts of their meals as a sort of bone structure. After a slime reaches a certain critical biomass of nutrients and proteins, they begin to develop a primitive brain of some sort and come to a basic level of consciousness. At that point, they become the combat mimics, and have the necessary abstract intelligence to lure victims into a trap by becoming treasure chests or whatever. They use the matter stored from all of their previous mindless consumption to create a form that looks like the things they wish to replicate, and pigments from whatever they've digested to color it. As they get older and eat enough brain matter or whatever, they become a full fledged sapient mind as intelligent and capable as any humanoid. Those are the ones who can speak and bargain and stuff. Then when they get big enough, they can split off a small piece, their children, who start out as little puddles of pudding or slimes to begin their own journey.
@oniro2620
5 жыл бұрын
Thank you SO much! I asked my DM about the mimic, but he had no wisdom about it D: What he told, made no sense.... Thank you :3 You answered all my questions, the monster Manual didn‘t answered to me
@demogorgonzola
4 жыл бұрын
- You have awakened the gazebo... - I knew it, it was a mimic all along!
@fylondpettyloaf2972
5 жыл бұрын
I greatly appreciate the use of the 2e MM. The lore in the 2e manuals was awesome.
@hylianarmy0
4 жыл бұрын
Anyone want to mention that mimics could be much, *much* larger back in the 2000s? When using the rules to advance a critter in the d20 System ruleset (the system used in 3.X and 1st Edition Pathfinder), most grow larger when they attain a certain number of Hit Dice. A base mimic starts at 7 HD, and it's size is Large; however, if you were to use the rules for advancing creatures found in the Monster Manual and give it more than 10 HD, it grows from Large to *Huge*. Remember, a Huge creature takes up a 15x15-foot space on your typical dungeon grid; it did even twenty years ago. A Huge-size mimic could assume the form of even larger things like fountains or, as MrRhexx says, small cottages, or even small rooms in dungeons.
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