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[truetrue]

See I'd be tempted to go one bigger... the whole house is a mimic. Just a very sleepy one. Stay very quiet and they might survive long enough to figure that out (via clues such as furnishings that can't be moved, floors/walls that bleed if poked, basement rooms that are just vats of stomach acids, etc)... make too loud a noise and really hilarious instant TPK.

Ya I was thinking about that too. In that case the house would have been the wizard's pet mimic and now that it's master was dead it was teleporting around luring adventurers in and any time they got to the bed room they were far enough in they couldn't excape once it revealed itself so instant game over.

 

[AlBetGam]

Ya I was thinking about that too. In that case the house would have been the wizard's pet mimic and now that it's master was dead it was teleporting around luring adventurers in and any time they got to the bed room they were far enough in they couldn't excape once it revealed itself so instant game over.

...but in a twist, it's just trying to lure in a high-level cleric who can resurrect its beloved master!

(Though that kinda loses the Halloween one-shot angle. Unless the party just doesn't have a high enough cleric.

 

[uncbuck]

I always had an idea for a one shot Halloween episode where the party would be tasked with investigating a haunted house that suddenly appeared. However in the end it would turn out that the house belonged to a wizard who had a strange affinity for collecting mimics so wasn't actually haunted everything in the house was a mimic. Basically they could leave any time they wanted but if they made it all the way to the bed room where they find the wizards corpse (died of old age some time ago) and learned the truth the mimcs wouls all spring to life and it would be an instant TPK.

I have no friggen idea what any of this means

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[Captain Panda]

...but in a twist, it's just trying to lure in a high-level cleric who can resurrect its beloved master!

(Though that kinda loses the Halloween one-shot angle. Unless the party just doesn't have a high enough cleric.

Everything is a mimic be careful

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[truetrue]

I have no friggen idea what any of this means

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In DND mimics are creatures in DND that can take the shape of any object, limited by their size some are small others can be huge, in order to eat anything that gets too close. They're generally wild creatures hostile to other life but are intelligent enough they can occasionally form bonds with other creatures. In this case a wizard (I'm assuming I don't have to explain that one) had an unusual talent for befriending mimics and began collecting them as pets or familiars. Eventually the wizard died from old age but the mimics stayed in his home and began using his house's magic to teleport it around to hunt by luring adventurers into it and attacking when they got too deep to escape. TPK means total party kill.

 

[HarelM]

I always had an idea for a one shot Halloween episode where the party would be tasked with investigating a haunted house that suddenly appeared. However in the end it would turn out that the house belonged to a wizard who had a strange affinity for collecting mimics so wasn't actually haunted everything in the house was a mimic. Basically they could leave any time they wanted but if they made it all the way to the bed room where they find the wizards corpse (died of old age some time ago) and learned the truth the mimcs wouls all spring to life and it would be an instant TPK.

I doubt that I'd enjoy playing in a game like that. I play games to see all the options and to have the power fantasy of winning. I guess I need to fix that, since losing is necessary to advance the story sometimes, but I'm currently me.

I really don't like the inescapable set-pieces, and the dirty trick about the carpet of smothering would feel, to me, like a betrayal.

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[truetrue]

...but in a twist, it's just trying to lure in a high-level cleric who can resurrect its beloved master!

(Though that kinda loses the Halloween one-shot angle. Unless the party just doesn't have a high enough cleric.

That would be a good twist if I wanted to make it more than a one shot.

They get to the room, mimics come alive but instead of eating them they toss in a diamond worth 1000 gold (or what ever the cost was)

Option 1: cleric casts the spell and resurrects the wizard.

Option 2: Rogue pockets the diamond and ties ropes to the wizard and makes a performance check to turn him into a marionette while the bard makes a deception check to throw his voice so it sounds like the wizard is talking.

 

[Ewasuw]

As soon as I get my sleeping place back I'm going to bed.
Good night everyone and until Thursday.

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[truetrue]

I doubt that I'd enjoy playing in a game like that. I play games to see all the options and to have the power fantasy of winning. I guess I need to fix that, since losing is necessary to advance the story sometimes, but I'm currently me.

I really don't like the inescapable set-pieces, and the dirty trick about the carpet of smothering would feel, to me, like a betrayal.

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Well that's why it's more of a one shot. Or groups usually did high lethality one shots on Halloween or other holidays for fun. We went in knowing our characters would probably not make it back out. How it turned out would also change depending on how the players played. I mean casting fireball in the first room would likely cause every creature in the room to fly around in a panic causing the players to figure out what was going on, so who knows how it would turn out.

 

[Ciri]

What's up everybody ?
I love you

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[HarelM]

That would be a good twist if I wanted to make it more than a one shot.

They get to the room, mimics come alive but instead of eating them they toss in a diamond worth 1000 gold (or what ever the cost was)

Option 1: cleric casts the spell and resurrects the wizard.

Option 2: Rouge Rogue pockets the diamond and ties ropes to the wizard and makes a performance check to turn him into a marionette while the bard makes a deception check to throw his voice so it sounds like the wizard is talking.

FTFY (sry if Rouge is a character's name... uh oh I have to make a rogue named Rouge and then claim that her name is pronounced the same as rogue.)

I'd think that mimics would be connoisseurs of deception... and with so many observers, that check would seem to be quite difficult. But I ain't played 5e yet...
I last played 3.5 a coule years back, and still miss some of the features of 2e...

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[truetrue]

As soon as I get my sleeping place back I'm going to bed.
Good night everyone and until Thursday.

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knight ewak...ewesan....ew*cough*uw have a good sleep

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[MattShizzle]

If that is the case I'll probably tell my player to git good or lower the difficulty because so far this playthrough sucks.

I think overall in my life the difficulty was set on the hardest possible level with lower (by a lot) than normal stats on everything but intelligence.

 

[truetrue]

FTFY (sry if Rouge is a character's name... uh oh I have to make a rogue named Rouge and then claim that her name is pronounced the same as rogue.)

I'd think that mimics would be connoisseurs of deception... and with so many observers, that check would seem to be quite difficult. But I ain't played 5e yet...
I last played 3.5 a coule years back, and still miss some of the features of 2e...

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I always miss spell rogue as rouge and sadly they're both words so spell check never catches it
edit: FTFY? don't recognize that one.

What's up everybody ?
I love you

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Morning Ciri how's it dripping *lewd grin*

 

[AlBetGam]

That would be a good twist if I wanted to make it more than a one shot.

They get to the room, mimics come alive but instead of eating them they toss in a diamond worth 1000 gold (or what ever the cost was)

Option 1: cleric casts the spell and resurrects the wizard.

Option 2: Rouge pockets the diamond and ties ropes to the wizard and makes a performance check to turn him into a marionette while the bard makes a deception check to throw his voice so it sounds like the wizard is talking.

Option 3: Rogue pockets diamond, Bard starts Performance checks and Prestidigitation to pretend he's a Cleric casting the mother of all resurrection spells, Wizard quietly prepares Mass Teleport.

And of course lets a little slip of paper fall from his sleeve...

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FTFY (sry if Rouge is a character's name... uh oh I have to make a rogue named Rouge and then claim that her name is pronounced the same as rogue.)

Or make a homebrew class called Rouge... and have one of them go rogue

 

[Ciri]

As soon as I get my sleeping place back I'm going to bed.
Good night everyone and until Thursday.

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Good night Ewasuw

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Well.....saw your message in the game room. Early tuck time it is



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Hi Bonk

hello, how is everyone this fine wednesday

Hi mike

Welp, off to bed.
Bye everyone, have a good rest of your day/night!
See you all tomorrow!

Good night Slum

Hi there! I've been gone for a while but now I'm back.

Hello vidilo

I always miss spell rogue as rouge and sadly they're both words so spell check never catches it
edit: FTFY? don't recognize that one.

Morning Ciri how's it dripping *lewd grin*

Hi, what's up?
When will you become P5

 

[truetrue]

Hi, what's up?
When will you become P5

still weeks away at best even with my post spamming

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[hangdangle]

still weeks away at best even with my post spamming

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I'll do my best to lend a helping hand.

 

[katmoxxi]

Some ninjas for today's theme.

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[mikeross]

still weeks away at best even with my post spamming

You could always try to find a sponsor...