statting a doppelgänger

muduri · 02-11-2019, 04:20 AM

It's great to have totally new-to-the-game players sometimes because they make decisions like, "a doppelgänger ate our companion and assumed his identity? He just needed friends - let's adopt him!" Who am I to object? So now we have a doppelgänger PC.

What I haven't totally figured out yet is how to stat the shapeshifting ability. The initial premise would be that on consuming a humanoid, he takes on all but their IQ and magical abilities (and maybe even those on a critical success - perhaps on Cooking, haha), irreversibly for say a week unless consuming someone else, but then reverting over the course of a day to his initial form and starving after another few days.

That sounds like a variation of Shapeshifting with Retains Shape - but with some important differences. Any thoughts? Curious also if being able to switch back to his doppelgänger form at will would make it a much simpler Shapeshifting with some unusual Limitations. Thanks for the input!

02-11-2019, 04:20 AM	#1
muduri Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Harlem, New York	statting a doppelgänger It's great to have totally new-to-the-game players sometimes because they make decisions like, "a doppelgänger ate our companion and assumed his identity? He just needed friends - let's adopt him!" Who am I to object? So now we have a doppelgänger PC. What I haven't totally figured out yet is how to stat the shapeshifting ability. The initial premise would be that on consuming a humanoid, he takes on all but their IQ and magical abilities (and maybe even those on a critical success - perhaps on Cooking, haha), irreversibly for say a week unless consuming someone else, but then reverting over the course of a day to his initial form and starving after another few days. That sounds like a variation of Shapeshifting with Retains Shape - but with some important differences. Any thoughts? Curious also if being able to switch back to his doppelgänger form at will would make it a much simpler Shapeshifting with some unusual Limitations. Thanks for the input!