Mimic

Aberration (Shapechanger) · 2 hexes · SM +1 Mimic (Enraged Eggplant; answers SRD 3.5, SRD 5.1)

In its resting shape, a heavy iron-banded chest of dark oak, indistinguishable from the real thing until the lid seam opens into a mouth. Two adhesive pseudopods come out of the sides and take hold, and once stuck to it a person is not simply pulling free.

Attributes

ST16

DX10

IQ10

HT12

HP16

Will10

Per10

FP12

Basic Speed5.5

Basic Move1

Dodge8

DR1

Melee attacks

Usage	Level	Damage	Reach
Sharp TeethSharp Teeth (14): thrust 1d+1 cutting, Reach C.	14	thrust 1d+1 cutting	C
PseudopodPseudopod (14): thrust 1d+1 crushing + adhesive, Reach C-1.	14	thrust 1d+1 crushing + adhesive	C-1

Traits (17)

• 360 Vision (Panoptic I)
• Bestial
• Constriction Attack
• Extra-Flexible Arms
• Double-Jointed
• Immunity to Noxious Acidic Effects
• Infravision
• Injury Tolerance (No Eyes; No Head; No Neck; No Vitals)
• Internal Sealed (Acid-Resistant Only)
• Invertebrate
• No Legs (Slithers)
• Odious Racial Habit (Eats sapient beings)
• Reduced Consumption 4
• Restricted Diet (Carnivore)
• Sealed (Acid-Resistant Only)
• Social Stigma (Monster)
• Universal Digestion

Skills (3)

• 14Brawling
• 15Disguise/TL3 (Objects)
• 14Wrestling

Notes

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/mimic.gct
• Source template total: 263 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 263 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Review attacks, special abilities, encounter frequency, treasure, grappling, and GCS modifiers before approval.
• GCS template includes a -4-point reconciliation child requiring decomposition.
• Size 2 hexes; Weight 4,500 lbs.

Encounter rating

CER29

Offense20

Protection9

Threat tierstandard

Appearing1

Wandering3

Tags

• srd-3-5
• srd-5-1
• aberration
• shapechanger

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Where this one came from

Source record

Mimic

Source system

gurps_4e_fan_conversion / author_permission

Released under

cc_by_4_0

Conversion

0.2.0-reviewed

Review status

approved

Credit

Original GURPS conversion by Enraged Eggplant, from Monsters (May 11, 2024); adapted and republished with permission.

Description

Written by Dungeons on Automatic, released under cc_by_4_0

• GCS ancestry draft: gcs/mimic.gct
• Source template total: 263 points.
• Library-rebuilt template total: 263 points.
• CER was computed from parsed Typical Stats using the Dungeons On Automatic baseline CER path.
• Issue #5: 0 special ability construction(s) restored and 1 annotated with the source's stated cost. 1 save-or-disable construction(s) are scored through the affliction term at the source's stated point cost, or at Binding ST where the source builds the ability as a Binding.
• GCS ancestry reconciliation adjudicated: the published template total is 263 points and the parsed source children sum to 267, a difference of -4. Classified as small arithmetic residual — a small residual consistent with rounding and per-level arithmetic in the published total; the rebuilt template keeps the author's total and carries the difference as an explicit reconciliation child. The authorized source total is preserved; the remaining manual step is opening gcs/mimic.gct in GCS to replace the reconciliation child with native constructions where the grouped ability can be decomposed.
• CER recomputed from the reviewed Typical Stats through the canonical Dungeons on Automatic CER path: OR 20, PR 9, CER 29, threat tier standard.
• Conversion baseline reported OR 9, PR 9, CER 18 (tier minor). The reviewed values come from the consumer CER implementation, which rounds damage once after the damage-type multiplier and credits ranged accuracy; the conversion baseline ceilinged the damage base first and ignored range.
• Encounter metadata derived (solitary): average number appearing 1, wandering weight 3. Encounter metadata derived for 0.2.0 from the reviewed threat tier and creature class (appearing: minor 4 / standard 2 / major 1 / severe 1, forced to 1 for solitary classes — including swarms, which are a single multi-body creature — and raised to 6 for gregarious minor creatures; wandering weight: minor 4 / standard 3 / major 2 / severe 1). The fan-conversion source states no appearing-in-numbers or wandering values, so these are derived, not source mechanics.
• Lair, treasure, and grappling remain unpopulated in 0.2.0 by package policy: the authorized fan-conversion source states no lair, treasure, or grappling values, and review declines to invent them. See review/policy/0.2.0-empty-field-policy.md.
• Description text is original Dungeons on Automatic prose written from this record's own converted statistics and from the project's art direction for the creature. It is not derived from the authorized fan-conversion source, which states no creature descriptions, and not from any SRD. It carries its own authorship and CC BY 4.0 terms in the description field. See review/policy/description-policy.md.
• Review approved by automated-mechanical-review on 2026-07-26 (batch ee-2026-07-26-b2-gcs-reconciliation); GCS fidelity check passed, DOA playability check passed.
• The source-total difference is classified and documented in conversionNotes; the authorized published total is preserved and the residual stays visible as a reconciliation child.
• Visual GCS verification of the .gct is not claimed by this decision; checks.gcsVisualPass is false.