Sandbox / Nightmare Fuel Advanced Dungeons And Dragons1st Edition

• The mimic is a shapeshifter which can disguise itself as anything made from stone or wood. Traditionally depicted as chests, they can also appear as doors or stonework. Touch them and you're stuck to their natural adhesive, and they beat you to death with their pseudopods. Metal Mimics can imitate metal as well, illuminate themselves, and disguise themselves as valuable artifacts. Thankfully, their "eyes" are vulnerable to sunlight. House Hunters don't have the sunlight vulnerability, and can disguise themselves as a building, including light and noises. Several usually work together to form a "village". And then 2nd Ed rolls around...
  • Even worse in 4th edition. Item-mimics are the juvenile stage. Adults pretend to be people.