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Which was the first rpg that inserted chest trap enemies? Sure, Dragon Quest popularized it but I am pretty sure that kind of enemies already existed in older western rpg.

>> No.3156693

Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

>> No.3156707
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>>3156679
Dungeons and Dragons. They also weren't limited to chest mimics. There were wall mimics, floor mimics, ceiling mimics, door mimics, pillow mimics, bedding mimics with variants like killer linen and the flannel beast, backpack mimics, a whole room mimic, a beholder mimic that is actually an exploding gas monster that kills you with poison spores if you hit it...

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>>3156707
But does it have a mimic town where friendly mimics sell you shit and heal you and just talk to you?

>> No.3156841

>mfw there are people on /vp/ who don't get that voltorb/electrode are supposed to be a Mimic

>> No.3156848

such a simple gimmick to implement, too

>> No.3156870

>>3156778
I can't confirm pre-2nd edition AD&D, but in fact normal mimics are neutral in alignment and have human intelligence. Killer mimics are the ones that just eat everything that touches them.

>> No.3156879

>>3156707
And Mimics that mimic mimics, that are mimicing mimics?

>> No.3156880

>>3156879
I believe that's just a regular ol' chest.

>> No.3156881

>>3156880
That's what they want you to think.

>> No.3156892

>>3156870
I can, some mimics were intelligent monsters even then. All Cloakers, too.

>> No.3157770

>>3156841
>Implying that many pokemaniacs have played anything else apart from Pokemon and Kingdom Hearts.
I wouldn't get the reference either if I didn't played Dragon Quest.

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Post best retro mimics

>> No.3157868

>>3156707
You started out correct and then veered way off into Nonsenseville. Original Mimics, 1st and 2nd Edition are able to imitate structures made of wood and stone.

You could conceivably have Mimics placed into a recess in a wall or a floor, but they aren't capable of going two-dimensional, nor can they put a gaping huge hole in themselves to imitate a door jamb. It should also follow that seeing as they can only imitate wood and stone that bedding and linens and backpacks and everything else was utter quackery.

Your DM must have been extremely creatively-minded towards rules, or just batshit insane.

>> No.3158115

>>3156841
Pokemon is such a bog-standard RPG, I don't understand why people don't get it.

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I never realised until now that the Luggage is technically a mimic, even though it is not at all trying to disguise itself as a normal chest.
Pic related. It's the Luggage.

>> No.3158448

>>3157794
Is that a real blue chest!? Lucky bastard. Man those blue mimics used to annihilate my party.

>> No.3158480

>>3157794
Is that a real blue chest!? Lucky bastard. Man those blue mimics are crazy dangerous in ancient cave.

>> No.3158481

>>3158448
>>3158480
Gotta love a buggy captcha

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I first heard about Mimics 25 years ago in the Monster Manual. Neverwinter Nights had a pretty serious four-way war between the PC, a mimic, a demon trying to get back his missing hand, and greedy rats.


What's Dragon Quest?

>> No.3158493

>>3158482
Some irrelevant Japanese rip off of wizardry, nothing special.

>> No.3158519 [SPOILER] 
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Mimics, while cheesy, have always been kinda fun. Especially when just taken to the extreme (A dungeon mimic, where the whole dungeon is actually a mimic).

This is probably my favorite mimic though.

>> No.3158521

>>3158519
also forgot i'm on /vr/

I don't come here often and with DaS43 out theres been a lot of talks about mimics

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>>3158493
You mean Ultima.

>> No.3158594

>>3158523
>FM
The graphics whore in me wants to play this version.

>> No.3158595

>>3158594
What's keeping you?

>> No.3158730

>>3156679
Dark Souls III

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>>3156841
I feel like I sort of knew and never properly put it together

>> No.3160760

>>3157868
>I don't know what I'm talking about.

Look up Gas Spores. Everything that anon said was 100% correct.