A large mimic consumes 1 Adventurer on average per week. Scale that down to a 1/4th for a small, or two sizes down, mimic, and realize I can't be overfed. An average adult is about 150 lbs divide that by 7 than 4. Or about 6 lbs of meat per day. Anything over and I can use it for other things.

Edit: Calories amounts to about 4500 calories.
This message was last edited by the player at 02:09, Tue 10 Oct 2023.

So 6 lbs of meat a day. That's er, a goblin arm. Doable. I don't see a big problem.

Hmmm... pokes chat thread...

Define dead? I'm still here, I've just talked to death the only concept I have any authority over.

I didn't think so. Tell me how you plan to handle combat and situations like traps and locked doors. Kick it around a bit before we get into the game, as it were.

Well, combat is grappling an enemy, and nomming them.

Traps and Locked doors are the more interesting places. That's more of a question: how much shapeshifting can I do?

I will assume I'm relying on 5e shapeshifting from here on out until told the contrary.

This means I need to be one coherent object or set of objects, and can't do something like a partial shapeshift.

I give birth to a baby mimic about the size of a coin and make it turn into a lockpick or key. It depends, on if I want to help someone or If I'm sticking to a solo adventure-type deal. Solo adventure allows a bit more wiggle room in my experience.

Trap? What kind?

let's go with a floor trap, I turn into a straight beam-like object, let people walk over me, and then using my adhesive abilities, I simply move forward.

Let's go with a tripwire that's say a foot off the ground, I turn into a carpet and simply crawl forward.




We stand before a cliff, I turn into a rope, use my adhesive abilities and climb, and then use my rope body to help others climb up the cliff.

We encounter an object on a pedestal, and we need a replacement to stay on there, I create a mimic child with the same approximate weight as the object, based on, my assumptions, and let it stay there, as we steal the object.


I walk into the city, I stay in teddy bear form because it's the most nonthreatening clearly nonhuman shape I can think of that's a pure object.


I find a field of lasers each one activating a deadly trap. I turn into a rope and slither forward relying on my adhesive abilities, if needed to cling to the walls, to ensure my entire body goes through.

I find a turret, it only detects movement, I figure out the fastest an object can pass through its range, and then crawl forward, as a mimic, I'm slow, and steady.

You've thought this out. Sounds like a good addition to the party. Ponder (the original) started life as a thief then converted to mage. Early editions don't allow for more than one switch and that's really tough to do. The DM allowed me a small update to "dead class" skills as we went along but Ponder never really stopped being a thief at heart, of hearts.

In reply to Ponder Kresh (msg # 113):

Yeah that makes sense.


I've thought about this a lot. In every oddball scenario, I've thought of something, but It's not always nice and neat.


Social encounters are my real bane, It's hard to convince anyone that a mimic's trustworthy, and whenever I think of even buying something I have to rely on someone else actually doing the buying.

And while I can fight, mimics are best as a sneak attack option, something I doubt we'll be seeing too often.

Which is why, their real purpose is out of combat utility. Even in those cases, A Grappling hook and rope, a set of lockpicks, I always base it off of something, because a mimic is fundamentally just a creature that replicates other items. It's just a lot of items tend to be useful when you apply them creatively.

If you ever encountered shapesand, I'm effectively just a variant of that, in some places I exceed it's utility, In others, I am inferior to it.
This message had punctuation tweaked by the player at 23:38, Wed 11 Oct 2023.

This is starting to sound a lot of fun.

Also, here, here's a class, that i'm just strictly inferior to.

https://dndtools.org/classes/sand-shaper/

In reply to Mimi (msg # 116):

I wouldn't say that. Sand shaping? Sounds like it gets into everything!

It has been a little bit.

How are things looking for game start GM?

Waiting for Annastarria to post her description & Scriostus to do the same & get back to me on something...

Need a day or so. Took a fall at work and had to be seen in my own bloody trauma unit which was embarrassing g. Right now I am flying from the meds they gave me so anything I did now like either be rubbish or quite funny. Probably the former.

Not going to lie, that sounds absolutely awful. I've had an experience like that.

However, from personal experience if you react to those kinds of meds like I did.

You might want to write something to yourself, not something you need to share with anyone else. But if your in an altered state, your unlikely to remember it, and it might make your day in the future. I know I did.

But that's a personal anecdote, not a doctors opinion.

In reply to Annastarria (msg # 120):

Sorry to hear this! My X (a nurse) had a similar mishap and wound up downstairs in the ER. Fortunately, there were no direct witnesses, so her humiliation was minimal. The incident was revisited two weeks ago when she had surgery to (finally) repair the foot. Happily, she's doing well.

And yes! you should write something in private. The mind does some odd things when it's in an altered state, you might have a good idea or three.

So, Annasstaria is injured, how about Scriostus? Anyone know something about them?

Ok, so i had planned to start the game today - however, my laptop said "The f&%k you are" and now am in the midst of a System Restore.

Hope it works because doin stuff on a phone is not practical and a bit annoying...

Appreciate the update!

I'm not really sure what you were waiting on me to reply to. I'll go work on my description now.

I've updated my description. And yes, he is essentially a house cat.

It was going to be longer, but it required The Character sitting on me, doing something. As in Shandri noticing the shifting of the chair, and having Mimi be aware of that before she could react. So, I figured it would be best to just keep it short.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:46, Wed 18 Oct 2023.

No worries.

Reaction to Mimi has been posted and you may continue with your plan.

Alright, Second posts, posted.

Description added. Apologies for the delay but I knocked my wee melon a bit harder than first thought.