Good evening Hive mind, need some advice on an encounter I'm planning for my party.
I'm incorporating my players backstories into our campaigns, and would like to throw in some mimics. They are getting to the level where True Seeing is becoming available, and I was trying to see if this spell would see through a mimic's disguise. I'm thinking so, but hoping not. What do you think?
True seeing counteracts illusions and transmutation effects. Object Mimicry is a polymorph without those traits, so True Seeing doesn't effect it.
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True seeing counteracts illusions and transmutation effects. Object Mimicry is a polymorph without those traits, so True Seeing doesn't effect it.
While this is technically correct, the mimic's ability is literally the only subtle shapeshifting that lacks the transmutation trait, so some GMs may decide that the mimic lacking such a trait is a typo rather than intentional, and make True Seeing work nonetheless.
That doesn't effect you, since you're the GM, and is, I think, wrong (the mimic's shapeshifting is entirely physical, with no magic involved, explaining why True Seeing fails, IMO), but seems worth noting for those reading the thread.