The card explaining the gift will go under the tongue.
(For those of you who don’t play Dungeons and Dragons: a mimic is a dungeon monster that looks like a treasure chest, but will attack and try to eat you if you open it. The joke is that this looks like a present, but is a lie: the present isn’ here yet. Now that you have read this explanation, I trust you will understand that this joke is hilarious. Thank you).
the joke is totally hilarious. I trust the spouse plays dnd!
I laugh each time I run across the “Chest with Teeth” in the catalog as I go back and forth between “why didn’t they just say Mimic” and “ah yes, when you can’t come up with the word ‘Mimic’ how would you describe that?”
In our last campaign we rolled super well and used some telepathy to befriend a mimic and keep him with us. The rest of the campaign was in large part spent trying to keep him from eating all of our friends.
I think it definitely has spread far beyond dnd, AFAIK it was created by Gygax back in the 70s. It doesn’t have to look like a treasure chest - it can mimic any inanimate object - but that’s how it first appeared, so it’s the iconic form
Isn’t that what they called the creatures in Edge of Tomorrow or whatever that Tom Cruise / Emily Blunt movie was called? I’m guessing it’s used elsewhere, too, or did they steal that from D&D?
the joke is totally hilarious. I trust the spouse plays dnd!
