Homebrew Doppelganger Species Details

Doppelgangers are devious shapeshifters that take on the appearance of other humanoids, throwing off pursuit or luring victims to their doom with misdirection and disguise. Few creatures spread fear, suspicion, and deceit better than doppelgangers. Found in every land and culture, they can take on the guise of any individual of any race.

Doppelganger Traits

Stealing Secrets, Darkvision, Ability score increase

Stealing Secrets

A doppelganger’s adopted form allows it to blend into almost any group or community, but its transformation doesn’t impart languages, mannerisms, memory, or personality. Doppelgangers often follow or capture creatures they intend to impersonate, studying them and probing their minds for secrets. A doppelganger can read a creature’s surface thoughts, allowing it to glean that creature’s name, desires, and fears, along with a few scattered memories. A doppelganger impersonating a specific creature as part of a long-term plot might keep its double alive and close at hand for weeks, probing the victim’s mind daily to learn how to behave and speak authentically.

ability score increase

your strength score increases by 2 and your constitution increases by 2

Darkvision

Accustom to lurking in the dark you have gained a keen sense in dark and dim conditions, you can see in dim light as if it were bright and in dark light up to 60 feet but you can not distinguish colours in darkness only shades of grey

languages

you can speak read and write in common as well as one other language of your choice to better blend in with the humans and other creatures you may be forced to come into contact with

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