I'm currently working on a back up character for a campaign where we're likely to get a character death soon. Our last session got pretty close. I'm hoping to do a changeling for this character and I want both the party AND the players to believe that he's human (or whatever race I want to mask him as) but on the campaign page my character would still show up as a changeling even if I put on the privacy settings. Is there any way we could get something like this? It'd make things really interesting for the campaign, especially since we all have a tendency to meta-game and this would allow there to be some secrecy that will provide a really cool surprise for when its finally found out that my character is a changeling.
There is no way to do this, although I would prefer this to be a feature. There should be a way to keep the whole sheet, even the name, hidden from other players but still be accessible by the DM. Fortunately, I'm in a group who are good on avoiding metagaming. But there is a solution you can use - it's a bit tricky though:
Add character to campaign, create it there to take advantage of any content sharing then remove it (or make it outside of campaign if there's no content sharing).
Create a homebrew copy of the Human (standard). Name it "Human (Changeling)". In the racial traits where it shows the ASI, edit it - leave the description and everything but remove the modifiers that actually adds any bonuses. Make a new racial trait, name it Changeling, check the boxes to hide it from the sheet. Add the modifiers to add the +2 Charisma, the +1 of whatever other stat you chose, and the proficiencies for the two skills you chose. Save it.
Create a new character, mimicking everything about your real character, and for race choose the Human (Changeling). Once your character has been made, go back and edit the homebrew race and rename it "Human", save. Reload your character sheet and it will now say Human. Add this character to the campaign. When you play keep both the "Human" and "Changeling" character sheets open on separate tabs and track what you need on both. It's a lot of duplication but if the party ever discover your character is actually a changeling, then you can swap the sheets in the campaign and track only the one, deleting the other and it's homebrew Human race if needed.
This has been asked for a few times. It is still a rather niche feature, but it wouldn't hurt to support it. Maybe it can be an option the DM can enable in the campaign.
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but I'd be surprised if they ever implemented this since it's such a niche, edge case-y scenario. I'll add a +1 here for it, though, simply because in the campaign I started at work, one of the original players went with a changeling but was a little miffed that in D&D Beyond it clearly stated the race as he wanted to keep it under the hood to start with.
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but I'd be surprised if they ever implemented this since it's such a niche, edge case-y scenario. I'll add a +1 here for it, though, simply because in the campaign I started at work, one of the original players went with a changeling but was a little miffed that in D&D Beyond it clearly stated the race as he wanted to keep it under the hood to start with.
I've played with a changeling player, we knew but our characters didn't. Simple as that. The player never did anything with it though.
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I'm currently working on a back up character for a campaign where we're likely to get a character death soon. Our last session got pretty close. I'm hoping to do a changeling for this character and I want both the party AND the players to believe that he's human (or whatever race I want to mask him as) but on the campaign page my character would still show up as a changeling even if I put on the privacy settings. Is there any way we could get something like this? It'd make things really interesting for the campaign, especially since we all have a tendency to meta-game and this would allow there to be some secrecy that will provide a really cool surprise for when its finally found out that my character is a changeling.
There is no way to do this, although I would prefer this to be a feature. There should be a way to keep the whole sheet, even the name, hidden from other players but still be accessible by the DM. Fortunately, I'm in a group who are good on avoiding metagaming. But there is a solution you can use - it's a bit tricky though:
Add character to campaign, create it there to take advantage of any content sharing then remove it (or make it outside of campaign if there's no content sharing).
Create a homebrew copy of the Human (standard). Name it "Human (Changeling)". In the racial traits where it shows the ASI, edit it - leave the description and everything but remove the modifiers that actually adds any bonuses. Make a new racial trait, name it Changeling, check the boxes to hide it from the sheet. Add the modifiers to add the +2 Charisma, the +1 of whatever other stat you chose, and the proficiencies for the two skills you chose. Save it.
Create a new character, mimicking everything about your real character, and for race choose the Human (Changeling). Once your character has been made, go back and edit the homebrew race and rename it "Human", save. Reload your character sheet and it will now say Human. Add this character to the campaign. When you play keep both the "Human" and "Changeling" character sheets open on separate tabs and track what you need on both. It's a lot of duplication but if the party ever discover your character is actually a changeling, then you can swap the sheets in the campaign and track only the one, deleting the other and it's homebrew Human race if needed.
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This has been asked for a few times. It is still a rather niche feature, but it wouldn't hurt to support it. Maybe it can be an option the DM can enable in the campaign.
Not to be a Debbie Downer, but I'd be surprised if they ever implemented this since it's such a niche, edge case-y scenario. I'll add a +1 here for it, though, simply because in the campaign I started at work, one of the original players went with a changeling but was a little miffed that in D&D Beyond it clearly stated the race as he wanted to keep it under the hood to start with.
I've played with a changeling player, we knew but our characters didn't. Simple as that. The player never did anything with it though.