5% Suggestion: Doppelgänger

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5% Suggestion: Doppelgänger

Post by Dreams » Sun Dec 01, 2019 5:26 am

5% Suggestion: Doppelgänger

Base race human, skin changed to doppelgänger.

+12 Bluff
Gains -polymorph dope for Doppelgänger shape.
Gains alternate shape similar to how Rakshasa functions now.

Special Ability: 1/5character levels per day. The doppelgänger changes shape into another existing character (PC or NPC). It gains their base appearance, skin, hair, tattoo options, descriptive(STR/DEX/con/CHA) and name. Armour and clothing would need to be imitated manually. This lasts until the doppelgänger turns into its true form or into a generic form. During this special ability: no disguise tag is visible, but counts as a disguise for purpose of breaking the check. Feedback still given in examine window.

Alternatively: To add the option with minimal work for staff, you just make the base form Doppelgänger and it is effectively a Rakshasa that currently exists. The RP will be different, you can add/remove whatever.

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Re: 5% Suggestion: Doppelgänger

Post by The GrumpyCat » Tue Dec 03, 2019 8:22 pm

Rackshasa does this already and I'm not sure where this would 'fit' in Arelith. Further more I would be concerned about the lack of the (disguise) tag. So for now moving it to rejected
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