Boiled Mimic Leftovers

 Are you full of boiled mimic, Dungeon Meshi Maniacs?  I hope it wasn't too rich.  Then again, if you can kill the mimic typically you are rewarded with treasure!  So you'd not only enjoy a rich taste but a rich hoard.  While I know such hard hitting comedy such as that is why you read this blog why don't we take it serious today and really look at the mimic.  What is a mimic?  A monster that looks like a treasure chest?  What's that all about?  Where did this idea even come from.  That's the goal for today, DMM's! We are going to open the box of the mysterious mimic!

Ah the mimic. An idea invented by a madman cooked up in a crazy lab part of a greater insane experiment.  By that I mean the creators of Dungeons and Dragons who wrote the first Monsters Manual in a place called Lake Geneva, Wisconsin!

Looks like a perfect place to create an influential table top role playing game.  I mean, who would go out on a boat when you can sit around a table for four to six hours playing a half orc ranger?  Thankfully the creators of D&D were not sailors or else we wouldn't be talking mimics today.  Why? Because the mimic dates back to the original Monsters Manual from the funky year of 1977!  Just look at the guy!

"Hold up, you impassive slime. That chest is punching the would be thief, not eating him!"  I can hear you mumble from a fevered dream.  Correct!  The original mimic didn't swallow their victims.  They attacked with a pseudopod dealing bludgeoning damage.  So they were like a mighty slime that can look like wood or stone.  Good for them!  But like all things someone eventually came along and asked, "What if we made this a little more EXTREME!?" and we are left with the modern mimic.

That's the one!  All teeth and ready to eat some unlucky thief while a wizard and warrior point and laugh.  And the mimic has since grow to become one of the more memorable monsters from all of Dungeons and Dragons showing up in non-D&D video games.

Charming!  And they are a running gag in another hot manga property.

By the by, I do love seeing Frieren cosplayers that come with a mimic to get eaten by.  That's dedication!  Mimics have become so famous they should change the name of Dungeons & Dragons to Mausoleums & Mimics.  It's always fun to see creations burst from their humble beginnings and run around the world.  Mimics should be wild and free!  But that fame comes with consequences.  I cannot remember a single time in any Dungeons & Dragons game that I've been in where a mimic showed up.  They are too famous!  Thieves all carry ten foot poles to poke treasure chests so the mimic can't even do what it was created to do.  Make players throw dice at the DM for killing them with a monster that looks like something else.

That's it for the mimic, DDM's.  I will see you in two weeks as I will be far away from any computers for a while.  That's right!  This slime is getting out of the dungeon to get some much needed fresh air.  I hope to see you then!