• Infynis@midwest.socialEnglish
    441·
    1 month ago

    If you’re playing D&D 5e, no perception check, no matter how high, will let you notice an object is actually a mimic.

    False Appearance (Object Form Only). While the mimic remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary object.

    • dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world
      441·
      30 days ago

      Still, as a DM, it’s far too tempting to give a little bit of this away and join in on the hijinks.

      Me: You find yourselves in a hidden library. On one shelf you see a series of tomes named “How Not to be Seen”, volumes I-XX.

      Newbie Fighter: Oh sweet, those look handy.

      Seasoned Rogue: Aw fuck. NOBODY TOUCH NOTHIN’!

      Ten minutes later:

    • FilthyShrooms@lemmy.world
      22·
      1 month ago

      Yea and the pile of bones and gore next to the chest is purely coincidental

    • Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      29 days ago

      What about the kind of evidence that leaves marks on the floor around where the mimic has been moving? Seems to me that’s fair game