Mimic!!!

[Ziindarax]

Is Lamannia up right now for testing U10? I keep getting something about a resources couldn't be found error. :/

[brlftz]

"Is the chest safe?"
"Well, that's one of them there philosophical questions...."
"Gah! Just let us know if it's trapped or not!"
"Nope, not trapped. Doesn't mean it won't try to eat your face, though."

argh, brenna, wracking my brain trying to remember what that's from...

- steppenwolf

[Anarkius]

REALLY awesome. I love classic D&D additions. Not sure I'd like a chest to be a mimic though, because of the loss of the chest. If the chest spawn after you killed the mimic though, that would be fun.

Speaking of older D&D, I'd love to see old D&D adventures get a DDO version. Ghost tower of Inverness, Against the Giants, Demonweb Pits, and especially Barrier Peaks, etc etc. I know these are in other settings, but an Ebberon version could be worked up for DDO.

Speaking of Old School D&D ... why do we have owl bear hide armor but no owl bears?

Back on subject - am looking forward to the addition of mimics, yes they can take many forms...chests, doorways, etc.

I don't want to risk losing any loot but would love to see some 'know it all noobs' get incapped or beat down by the chest they are racing to (myself included)

Now instead of ransacking a chest it turns into a mimic with a CR based on the level of the dungeon .. and the loot farmers shall lament

[Memnir]

Would Crateos from The Snitch count as some kind of Mimic ?

Crateos is a Construct, being that it is an Animated Object(s) as Knockback said.


Mimics are Aberrations.

[QuantumFX]

"Is the chest safe?"
"Well, that's one of them there philosophical questions...."
"Gah! Just let us know if it's trapped or not!"
"Nope, not trapped. Doesn't mean it won't try to eat your face, though."

Is it safe?

[donfilibuster]

Speaking of Old School D&D ... why do we have owl bear hide armor but no owl bears?

Because X'endrik isn't a good place to live, horses and deer get eaten and anything with wings left the continent ages ago.

It's obvious the current generation of monsters feed on scorpions, you can find about that here.

[Xenostrata]

Now all we need are randomly placed stone golems with little blue moons etched on their chests....

[Aashrym]

Now all we need are randomly placed stone golems with little blue moons etched on their chests....

well, that and dinosaurs.

[ka0t1c1sm]

Unbound crafting!

Wait. What? Mimics?

[FranOhmsford]

Surely Carrion Eaters are Otyughs in disguise - They're certainly not rats.

[Zectarash]

Pardon the slightly off-topic set of ideas, it rolls away from mimics FAST.

Stunjellies. They are PART of the wall, from AD&D. They grab you as you pass by and eat you.

To add some more electric enemies, here's one I based off a real (long-extinct) creature...

Thunder Scorpion. In DDO it would be about the size of your average Giant, with Poison and Electricity. Huge tail, hugae outer claws, inner (attackable to destroy, loss does not harm creature) claws that shoot huge bolts of lighting (think Meteor Swarm thickness, truckload of damage, let alone if it hits water... it would easily deal THOUSANDS of points of damage to those in water up to their knees or more, hundreds in ankle-depth, and it's an AoE that effects the whole body of water, and it lives in the ocean, so when ships pass by...) and are really tough to kill.

Also thought of a quest for Tiamat.

Kill the 7 Red Dragons (lists the names, all make Velah look like a Kobold child!)

(Optional) Slay Tiamat (Good luck, fools!) (350k/450k/550k HP for norm/hard/elite, all heads deal about the same as the Red Dragons from the quest, each head has breath weapon for the same amount, DC 35/40/45 and a batch of eggs behind Tiamat occasionally spawns a new dragon that's randomly determined, Tiamat can cast any spell at the caster level 35/45/55. The loot would be outrageous, assuming you survive to get it. Something like an ultimate Tower Shield and large pieces of the Staff of Many Morals which I'll outline below.)

Blue= not on the objectives screen.

Staff of Many Morals: a super-powerful staff that begins as 27 wands: Good (x3) Neutral (x6) Evil (3) Law (3) Chaos (3)
Each wand gives the alignment spell Clerics get at level 7 (4th level spell)
Combine a "legal" and "moral" wand to make the Scepters of (LG, NG, CG, LN, NN, CN, LE, NE, CE) which combines the effects of the 4th-level spells. Provides the effects like "Pure Good" which only allow characters of that elignment to wield them.
Combine scepters of the moral algnments to make the Quarterstaves of (Good, Neutrality, Evil) which combines the spells again and gives the Moral effect (Greater Stability for the Neutrality) of Holy or Unholy + Pure (alignment type).
Combine to create the ultimate weapon: the Staff of Many Morals. +5 Staff (treat as Quarterstaff with the damage of a Greataxe or so), Holy, Unholy, Anarchic, Axiomatic, Greater Stability, Absolute Good, Evil, Law, Chaos, Superior Aligning 9 (3 min 75% boost to alignment spells), Aligned, Unaligned (all negative effects don't apply and requirements are not needed, so everyone gets the effects of the Greater Stability and anyone can wield it). Maybe Metalline.

[Zectarash]

Surely Carrion Eaters are Otyughs in disguise - They're certainly not rats.

I'll "rat" you out for that!

[SableShadow]

argh, brenna, wracking my brain trying to remember what that's from...

- steppenwolf

Stop wracking; every now and again, once in a blue moon, I *do* have an original thought.

Though of course the "them there philosophical questions" line was swiped from Neuromancer.

Pardon the slightly off-topic set of ideas, it rolls away from mimics HERE.

Fixed!

It is not a tease. Word on the street is that in U10 every chest in game has a chance 5% chance to spawn a mimic instead of loot. raid chests included, and the %chance may increase depending on the quest.

Yeah, I heard that too, from a reliable source. Should be an interesting mod.

[Robi3.0]

So I was logging in, like I do, when... OMG!!!!!!!
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This had best not be a tease.

It is not a tease. Word on the street is that in U10 every chest in game has a chance 5% chance to spawn a mimic instead of loot. raid chests included, and the %chance may increase depending on the quest.

On a side note in U10 the DDOstore is going to start selling mimic begone trinkets. they will reduce or remove this chance depending on level of the trinket. They will be one time use and have to be equipped at the time of opening.

[Eelpout]

Now if we can get the Devs to insert some code that gives a small % chance for any static, non-boss related chest in ANY quest to be a level-appropriate mimic...

That would be true awesomesauce.

I truly love this idea. I also love the insane giggling in my head thinking about the first forum thread created once it goes live.

"W.T.F. Devs, went to open Shroud end chests, no ingrediants, but at least they tried to eat the party"

and the dev battle cry of "Oops".

[Rian]

AL1 UR L00TS 4RE B3L0NG TO MEEE3EEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

Time for:
http://www.duke.edu/web/DRAGO/humor/gazebo.html

cautious players beware

[SableShadow]

AL1 UR L00TS 4RE B3L0NG TO MEEE3EEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

Time for:
http://www.duke.edu/web/DRAGO/humor/gazebo.html

cautious players beware

It all depends. Is the gazebo...deadly?

[doubledge]

It all depends. Is the gazebo...deadly?

nope, that's the explorer in haven.

[Rian]

it All Depends. Is The Gazebo...deadly?

it's A Gazebo!!!!!!!

[SableShadow]

it's A Gazebo!!!!!!!

rotflmao!