[RPG] Does attacking a mimic stick your weapon to it

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Gearing up to have my players beset by a mimic. I noticed their Adhesive trait says that anything that touches them sticks to them, as quoted below:

Adhesive (Object Form Only): The mimic adheres to anything that touches it. A Huge or smaller creature adhered to the mimic is also Grappled by it (escape DC 13). Ability Checks made to escape this grapple have disadvantage.

My question revolves around a fighter making a melee attack against the mimic. Would the weapons stick to the mimic? and if so, would you have to make a strength (athletics) or dexterity (acrobatics) check to free your weapon after successfully hitting it each time?

The rest of the block is pretty clear that if you grab it or if it attacks/touches you that you are grappled. So I am assuming it would play the same for weapons, but I also feel making an escape roll after every swing of a weapon will get tedious during game play.

What is the RAW for this?

Best Answer

RAW, weapons stick to the mimic

The ability you quote does say that mimics stick to "anything" that touches them. Moreover, the description of the mimic specifically states (emphasis added, MM220),

When it changes shape, a mimic excretes an adhesive that helps it seize prey and weapons that touch it. The adhesive is absorbed when the mimic assumes its amorphous form and on parts the mimic uses to move itself.

Therefore, RAW, any weapon that hits the mimic will stick to it. That will make fighting it with a melee weapon pretty annoying, but PCs generally have access to attacks that aren't affected by this ability, such as spells and ranged attacks. Also, it's only sticky as long as it's mimicking something, and loses its stickiness in its amorphous form.