Play Shattered Pixel Dungeon. You can get special mimics that can disguise as literally everything. A door, strength potion, the way to the next level, basically anything that looks useful. And of course they only appear as soon as you’ve forgotten to check for them.
having the table you are irl playing at turning into a mimic and having to roll stats for your irl person in order to continue sounds really fun
And then we have Starfinder where a mimic can disguise itself as an entire planet!
Mimic city; every building is a mimic, but they’re smart enough to eat the local population when they’re alone or in small groups. Every time people keep going missing, and the players will assume it must be some random wandering monster; they’d never think it’s literally the buildings and each room can start eating really fast. There’d be no pattern either, every building is alive and people go missing literally everywhere. Perhaps a clue can be a house that has no more people living in it and it starts to starve to death and starts freaking out, even endangering the other mimics’ secret.
I’ve always been a fan of mimics being ladders or bridges.
Teleportation mimic will teleport you. To its stomach.
Breastplate mimic just wants to sink its mouth on your breasts.
Saddle mimic wants to lick your lowers parts.
No comment on outhouse mimic. We don’t talk about it.
just wants to sink its mouth on your breasts.
Get in line, mimic.
The rope mimic has some more specific tastes.
Abomination Vaults has a mimic encounter where one is pretending to be a door and the other is pretending to be a weapon rack with a nice axe on it. Gets them either way.
You might also want to look into Rotgrind’s Mimouthouse. It’s exactly what it sounds like.
I never got to run this, but I remember after playing Prey putting together a dungeon themed off of mimics and getting really nasty with them. I imagined that after a couple rooms the players would adopt a policy of preemtively fireballing every new room before entering it.
Not my menstrual cup!
Cover your phb in spray adhesive and leave it sitting on the table. As soon as someone touches it, shout “ROLL INITIATIVE!”
Actually, apply this to other random objects at the game table. A bag of chips, 1 can of soda in the fridge, every 3rd pencil, whatever.
This is similar to the premise of Prey.
[This post is not a mimic]
That seems like something a mimic would say.
That’s why you need post it on your stuff.
All fun and games until the mimic pretends to be a post-it note
I like to think mimics cant replicate text. If not I’m gonna need a fancy mimic lens or start tapping my stuff with a wrench before I touch it.
They can replicate text, but it’s not very good, like AI pictures. This has led to many of them having a text phobia, so make sure to carve your name into everything.
Safety fact!
The player handbook isn’t a problem, no one reads that thing.
It’s a good way to get rid of your rules lawyer. Everyone hates that guy anyway.
I’ve often thought it’d be fun to let a party have a tame mimic as a pet. Not helpful in battle unfortunately, unless one of your opponents decides to take a looting break.
The Flee, Mortals! book has a mimic companion stat block. It can cover you and act as active camouflage.
Thrown weapon mimic, like a javelin. Enemy picks it up to throw back and bam, surprise bite!!!
My party do have a pet mimic. He’s called Philip and is mostly there for comic relief although he has been known to help with puzzles and things occasionally
