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A metal mimic can also create a magical illumination from itself or from any nearby object. The metal mimic can take on the shape and appearance of items of any raw or finished metal, which includes the color, luster, and texture of any pure metal (such as iron, gold, silver, or platinum) except for adamantite, but cannot form into any alloy. The entry states that a metal mimic is a more powerful relative of the 'ordinary' mimic, with all of the mimic's basic abilities and characteristics, but being able to imitate metal, in addition to being able to imitate wood and stone. 101 (September 1985) featured a creature by contributor Gregory Detwiler known as the metal mimic. The monster collection 'Creature Catalog III' in Dragon No.

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Austin Wood of PC Gamer described Greenwood's article as 'probably the closest thing to science to ever come out of D&D'.

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The article also describes how a mimic observes its surroundings through its very sensitive 'eyespots' (patches of pigment that are sensitive to heat, light, and vibration) all over its skin bright sunlight effectively blinds a mimic by overwhelming these sensory spots, which is why mimics are almost always found in areas where the sun never reaches. A mimic is amorphous, able to alter the external configuration of its form at will, and the more intelligent ones can even assume the shape of a partition wall, overhanging arch, or rough rock wall this feat is accomplished by the creature's mode of travel, which involves extending its strong pseudopods, which exude a sticky 'glue', and pulling itself along ('unsticking' its own glue at will), traveling on walls and ceilings as easily as it can on floors. The article states that a mimic's hide is naturally gray in hue, with a smooth very hard outer skin that appears stone-like a mimic is able to change the color and texture of its outer surface to resemble wood-grain by shifting a brown pigmented liquid between its interior and exterior body cells to fill the many capillaries lying just beneath the skin surface, while the creature can empty these capillaries to revert to its normal stone-like appearance. This article provides additional in-game descriptions of the mimic, with the information purported as having come from 'the Journals of Maerlun the Scholar'. 75) featured the article 'The Ecology of the Mimic', by Ed Greenwood. The July 1983 issue of Dragon magazine (No. As part of his review, Turnbull comments on several new monsters introduced in the book, referring to the mimic as a thing which adventurers from his Greenlands dungeon 'are not going to be best placed to meet'.

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The Monster Manual was reviewed by Don Turnbull in the British magazine White Dwarf No. This creature does not speak, and will attack anything which is nearby. The book described the larger variety of mimic as a carnivorous creature called a 'killer mimic'. These creatures have their own language and can usually speak several other tongues. The slightly smaller version is more intelligent, and is generally friendly if offered food, usually telling a player character about what it has seen nearby. The Monster Manual mentions that there are two types of mimic encountered in the game. Mimics are described as neutral in alignment. The book states that all mimics move about constantly in search of prey. A mimic excretes an adhesive glue to hold fast whatever touches it. They are able to perfectly mimic stone or wood.' According to the book, mimics thus pose as items such as stonework, doors, or chests when a character or creature touches the disguised mimic, the mimic can lash out with a bludgeoning pseudopod. This book described mimics as 'subterranean creatures which cannot stand the light of the sun. The mimic made its first appearance in the original Monster Manual (1977), by Gary Gygax.

1.2 Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd editionĪn original creation for the game's artificial underground environment, this 'iconic monster' looks like a treasure chest and is designed as a trap for unwary player characters.

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