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Clicking Mimic




The goal of every mimic is to devour prey, but to do so as lazy as possible. If there is one thing dungeoneers cannot withstand touching besides treasure, its traps, especially traps with big, bright levers. Growing into a wall or another room feature, the clicking mimic presents levers (pseudopods) and secret compartments (mouths) that are hard to resist. It can even attach itself to actual traps in the room to set them off for added flare.

Clicking Mimic

Large monstrosity (shapechanger), neutral

 Armor Class 11 (natural armor)

Hit Points 75 (10d10 + 20)

 Speed 15 ft

Str 18 Dex 10 Con 14 Int 16 Wis 14 Cha 8

Skills Stealth +6

Damage Immunities acid

Condition Immunities prone

Sensesdarkvision 60 ft, passive Perception 12

Languages -

Challenge 5 (1,800 XP)

Shapechanger.

The mimic can use its action to polymorph into an obstacle with multicolored or symboled levers or back into its true, amorphous form. Its statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn't transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies

Adhesive (Object Form Only).

The mimic adheres to anything that touches it. A Huge or smaller creature adhered to the mimic is also grappled by it (escape DC 15). Ability checks made to escape this grapple have disadvantage. The mimic can activate and deactivate this ability at will.

False Appearance (Object Form Only).

While the mimic remains motionless, it is indistinguishable from an ordinary obstacle with multicolored or symboled levers.

Grappler.

The mimic has advantage on attack rolls against any creature grappled by it.

Lever Trap (Object Form Only).

The mimic always makes levers out of its pseudopods. Anytime one of these levers is pulled, the mimic can make a clicking noise as a free action. In addition, the first pseudopod attack against a creature grappled by a lever-pseudopod due to touching it has advantage.

Actions

Pseudopod.

Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 8 (1d10 + 3) bludgeoning damage. If the mimic is in object form, the target is subjected to its Adhesive trait.M

Bite.

Melee Weapon Attack: +5 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 12 (2d8 + 3) piercing damage plus 4 (1d8) acid damage.

Reactions

Razored Receptacle (Object Form Only).

The mimic is riddled with small receptacles when in object form. This could be sliding panels in the wall it is flush with, pockets within the door it pretends to be, or niches in a central pillar. In truth, they are all mouths. The mimic can safely story items of Small or smaller size within each receptacle, but whenever a creature reaches into a receptacle, the mimic may use its reaction to make a Bite attack against that creature.

Trip Wire.

The mimic sets off a trap it is aware of within 10ft.
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