This Video is definitely NOT a MIMIC

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  • @ByTheTrowel
    @ByTheTrowel Před rokem +49

    I threw a mimic at my party. They adopted him. He is now a very happy member of the town and is the garbage man. I ended up adding the homebrew twist that he will only grow larger if he eats magic so they feed him cursed items in the hopes of growing him to become a bridge.

    • @Malvisk
      @Malvisk Před rokem +6

      Oh a nope bridge? Heheh no thank you.

    • @skeyedrake5929
      @skeyedrake5929 Před rokem +3

      Thats a bridge best not crossed

    • @derekstein6193
      @derekstein6193 Před rokem +2

      @@skeyedrake5929 Would you say it is a... bridge too far?

    • @jgr7487
      @jgr7487 Před rokem +2

      so did I. the CE necromancer ran away with it & decided to make an army of Undeads & Mimics.

  • @DWSP101
    @DWSP101 Před rokem +24

    The mimics that can erase memories that sounds like the false Hydra

    • @O4C209
      @O4C209 Před rokem +4

      That was my thought... perhaps it's a mimic impersonating a false hydra.

    • @RuneGM
      @RuneGM Před 10 měsíci

      The blackweald is mcdm’s version of a false hydra

  • @geoffgodofbiscuits
    @geoffgodofbiscuits Před rokem +3

    I once made a mimic NPC who was business partners with the party’s patron. It has spent years stowing away on cargo ships learning the intricacies of trade before opening its own trading coster with the group patron. Always amusing to pay them for a job with a bag of gold covered in sticky drool.

  • @thactotum
    @thactotum Před rokem +3

    I had an idea for a campaign I called 'Oops all Mimic' where the players (I was contemplating doing a solo runthrough on my channel) are things like a suit of armor, a dress Mannequin, a statue. And they become semi-heroic characters that want to help their people by trying to start a town of mimics where the mimic citizens are the shop owners and some of the buildings and workers. Not everyone of them is particular bright, and some are struggling to civilize.

  • @tracyburnham604
    @tracyburnham604 Před rokem +12

    Planescape had a mimic city, Nimicry. I think it was a floating island in the Abyss

  • @Griffingterra
    @Griffingterra Před rokem +5

    8:30 wait that's just a flasehydra?

    • @Jorphdan
      @Jorphdan  Před rokem +2

      Yep, he based or off that idea

  • @daviddaspit4166
    @daviddaspit4166 Před rokem +2

    We just took on a mimic that was shaped as a pile of gold from a dragon's hoard. There was a hoard there, but about half of it was a mimic :-)

  • @robodad1
    @robodad1 Před rokem +2

    I’m doing a pet mimic that’s always a door. It’s called Jim because it has a sign from a kids room saying JIM’s RoOm on it.

  • @Mr_GoR_
    @Mr_GoR_ Před rokem +6

    ROFL, got me chuckling right away with the Transformers schtick.

  • @Hakaanu
    @Hakaanu Před rokem +2

    There’s a real fun use of mimics in Wild Beyond the Witchlight in a hag’s house.

  • @zombietoothache
    @zombietoothache Před rokem +9

    Now I want to modify Jublix into a demon lord of mimics.

  • @jt8568
    @jt8568 Před rokem +2

    Someday I am going to throw a mimic tavern at my party. They try to open the door and find an open maw!

  • @RodrigoKuerten
    @RodrigoKuerten Před rokem +8

    Trappers are in 5th Edition! They appeared in Volo's Guide.

  • @liamspinage
    @liamspinage Před rokem +2

    Best mimic I ever threw at a party... grand piano.

  • @josuesepulveda6850
    @josuesepulveda6850 Před rokem +1

    The Blackweald adventure looks very interesting,the main villans are mimics,great video!

  • @gabrielrussell5531
    @gabrielrussell5531 Před rokem +1

    The main thing that distinguishes D&D mimics is the sticky part. That got lost in adaptation.

  • @garryame4008
    @garryame4008 Před rokem +10

    Hey Jorphdan, Have you heard of the second edition adventure Reverse Dungeon? it's really novel cuz the players play as the monster residents of a dungeon and must fight off increasingly stronger adventurers

    • @AnnoyingNewsletters
      @AnnoyingNewsletters Před rokem

      I love Reverse Dungeon. It was one of the last products before the switch to 3.0.

  • @nerdaccount
    @nerdaccount Před rokem

    Good rhyme! Let me try... "A treasure chest and a DM frown, wonders unbound, A treasure chest and a DM smile, player ... they are both just mimics, they are all mimics, including the gold, the stones in the floor and the air."

  • @mjolasgard2533
    @mjolasgard2533 Před rokem +3

    The Mimic is the larval stage of a doppleganger...

  • @dragonflyradio127
    @dragonflyradio127 Před rokem +2

    I ran a mimic colony once. It was a warehouse in a city, but also appeared as human assassins who were mysteriously identical. Not coalescing in one place Bd looking the same made kt hard to tell just how many kf these assassins there were. At some point the paladin decided to follow one of them back to their hideout, at which point they were inside a mimic colony. That was the first time the paladin died.

  • @MinscFromBaldursGate92
    @MinscFromBaldursGate92 Před rokem +2

    Ed Greenwood looks like Elminster.

  • @qzbnyv
    @qzbnyv Před rokem +8

    Super strong recommend for the LitRPG novel series called “Everybody Loves Large Chests”, which features a Mimic as its main character.
    Specifically get the audio edition via Audible as the main narrator Jeff Hays (and the rest of performers in the later books) do an amazing job. Seriously, Jeff has the best voice for this crazy mimic main character “Boxxy T. Morningword”.

  • @myths_and_Legend
    @myths_and_Legend Před rokem +1

    2:20 There's the usual trick with the chain to determine if its a mimic, but there is also a way to disable it. While the mimic is inert, throw a Lyod's Talisman at one and it will open up and give you the loot it would usually drop. (at least in Dark Souls 2)

  • @AndreComtois
    @AndreComtois Před rokem +1

    In my campaign the mimic was a toilet seat in an outhouse.

  • @TomatoTerminator
    @TomatoTerminator Před rokem +1

    I think I've had a 3rd party book that made mimics some ancient shapeshifting armor gone rogue, originally created so their aboleth masters can walk and breath on land. Which I thought was pretty cool, lots of hooks built in, many factions secretly tracking mimic sightings and hunting/protecting the original progenitor.

  • @BrotherSkodidi
    @BrotherSkodidi Před rokem +2

    I had a mimic house for the party in my game. It was awesome!

  • @CelticCubby
    @CelticCubby Před rokem +1

    I used to consider Mimics to be immature Doppelgangers both aberrations, but I considered Changelings to be fey.

  • @orcwarchiefreviews
    @orcwarchiefreviews Před rokem +2

    I do like my little mimic Griffith the mimic that somehow got the soul of a wizard he's been a little prick the party's been trying to kill him for a while

  • @DavydAtkins
    @DavydAtkins Před rokem +1

    That Arcadia adventure sounds suspiciously like the False Hydra encounter idea

    • @Jorphdan
      @Jorphdan  Před rokem

      you are correct! Based on that, he mentions it in the adventure.

    • @DavydAtkins
      @DavydAtkins Před rokem

      @@Jorphdan Does he credit the original writer of the false hydra?

  • @dracosdiabolis1769
    @dracosdiabolis1769 Před rokem +1

    Mimics are cups and plates, bowls. Lol the house is a mimic and the serving dishes are the children. The house acts as a nursery for a colony. Lol

    • @AnnoyingNewsletters
      @AnnoyingNewsletters Před rokem

      *Laughs in Beauty and the Beast*
      They should be glad Belle broke the curse; otherwise, the entire castle 🏰 would have uprooted itself and devoured the town and all of its provincial life. 🎶

  • @joesgotmore
    @joesgotmore Před rokem

    The eating of memories makes me think of the false hydra.

  • @jack-rh8me
    @jack-rh8me Před rokem +1

    Maybe you could do mini doc's on individual monsters...5 minute shout outs from the monster manuals old school stuff
    \

  • @Tengu125
    @Tengu125 Před rokem +1

    I was a bit disappointed that there aren't any mimics in Elden Ring.
    To me it feels like there's a void there, like something is off.
    Along with a boss that grants a weapon or other piece of equipment for cutting of the tail, I hope a future dlc will introduce some kind of mimic.
    And no, I don't count the Jars as mimics.

  • @legithopecrew
    @legithopecrew Před rokem +1

    In my setting I like to play with the idea that changlings are descendents of mimics while doppelgangers are descendents of intelligent oozes. In practice they are very similar but it creates a space with a lot of nuance.

    • @AnnoyingNewsletters
      @AnnoyingNewsletters Před rokem

      I'd strike that; reverse it, with changelings remaining as descendants of doppelgangers and mimics as descendants of oozes (or vice versa). Either awakened oozes became mimics, or less intelligent mimics became oozes.

  • @user-tj3oc1xb8x
    @user-tj3oc1xb8x Před 3 měsíci

    Now, imagine this a player that’s whole gear made up of mimics that follow the players command

  • @ericgonzalez934
    @ericgonzalez934 Před rokem +1

    Love the video , thank you for the amazing work

  • @derekstein6193
    @derekstein6193 Před rokem

    8:35
    Sounds kinda like a false hydra by your explanation.

  • @ashb8036
    @ashb8036 Před rokem

    A mimic familiar can be a lot of fun

  • @orlando72az
    @orlando72az Před rokem +1

    I have been so scarred by mimics that, to this day, I still shoot every chest with an arrow first.

  • @1991zaw
    @1991zaw Před rokem

    Great video!

  • @joshpwnsnoobs
    @joshpwnsnoobs Před rokem

    thanks for the video

  • @DWSP101
    @DWSP101 Před rokem +3

    Is anybody else thinking that the wizards of the Coast are a bunch of Mimics!
    Especially with that contract they tried to pass?! The party rolls a 20 on perception we see wizards of the Coast as a Mimc!

  • @FallenRingbearer
    @FallenRingbearer Před rokem

    Imma still poke the vid with my sword.

  • @zeugenberg
    @zeugenberg Před 5 měsíci

    So... a giant mimic got together with a False Hydra?

  • @scasimir1000
    @scasimir1000 Před rokem

    What if a large enough mimic replicated a prison in a town? The town just assumed it was built and didn't really pay any mind to it. So when this prisoners in it every once in a while the mimic will eat the person and people just assume that the criminal broke out and got away. Now what made the mimics was a trickster god he thought it was funny to have a creature that can change himself. Surprise someone and then eat them. Thought it was a funny joke he has ever made

  • @samuelteare8160
    @samuelteare8160 Před rokem +1

    I like telling my players that there is one mimic in your adventure, but not telling them where it is...

  • @Toast_Deletes
    @Toast_Deletes Před rokem

    How many mimics are too many mimics in a game I'm playing... 1 lol. I was a second edition player who had a lot of "DM vs Players" DM's and that continued through all my play to my 1st DM in 5e, after that, it was like every 3rd or 4th 1, new players just don't know the struggle, nor should they.

  • @user-uo2bj3rd6b
    @user-uo2bj3rd6b Před rokem +1

    мне понравилось ! лайк и комментарий , для алгоритмов ютуба =)

  • @misomiso8228
    @misomiso8228 Před rokem

    8:34 what de who episode is that?