Playing Changelings in Eberron

[@howelx]

Be a changeling, multiclass into all classes, build each class into another character.

[@neurotypicalkirby1344]

Howel Octavion I love it

[@andrewwelker7287]

GENIUS

[@alanschaub147]

Be sure to take cantrips that level so that all the multiclassing does not decrease your character’s overall power!

[@saraneff6831]

I'm playing a multiclassing changeling. They've got two personas, a male teifling wild mage and an agender copper colored dragonborn bard. Each persona is ONLY its own class (outside of passives) because they really believe they are separate people training separately

[@owr7702]

@@saraneff6831 that's dope mate. I'm playing a multiclass changeling too, but I had not thought of that

[@waaurufu]

A changeling bard that's a one-man theater, plays every role in a play by shifting back and forth, sticking on different hats and putting on different voices.

[@insamity6143]

When he was talking about every doctor looking the same all I could think was nurse joy is a changling

[@Javierm0n0]

Insamity omg ditto really are vastly evolved

[@scottmcintyre2809]

All I could think about was how the Changelings are damned lucky to have The Doctor looking out for them, and where would you hide a Tardis in Sharn?

[@halabackatchya]

When your characters get into character…

[@jgr7487]

make a Changeling Assassin, so your Character's character can have characters!

[@acorneroftheinternet4179]

Changling bard LETS GO MATE

[@tis3947]

@@acorneroftheinternet4179 I just started with a changeling bard of the whispers.

[@breandanburke7383]

I like his explanation of how he came up with the changelings, it reminds me of a story I ran for my group where they went to a village that wasn't a village at all. It consisted of 20-30 Doppelgängers, Oni and other shapeshifters who acted out 250 people, changing into a new person everytime they left the party's view. The building and items in the village were all mimics.

[@noname-do5wo]

And that's how I gave my players paranoia and trust issues

[@tophatoctopus1997]

Wait are the dopplegangers' clothes mimics?

[@awesomechainsaw]

Breandan Burke Reminds me of a similar story but the DM made the PC’s check their weapons, and armor in with the “Guards” so they could go meet with the “Mayor.” And ultimately where attacked with their own weapons and armor.

[@Erik_Armando_123]

Man! It sounds awesome.

[@bleddynwolf8463]

how did they feed the mimics? they get hungry.

[@TheGoodluckjonny]

We're actually gonna have two Changelings in our party... Who are siblings. This'll be fun

[@ItsJustGhosty-ttv]

...are they...twiiiiinnnsssss????.... lmao

[@beastwarsFTW]

Whole party is changlings or has some sort of illusion or disguise but no one know the other is.

[@JohnSmith-xm4dk]

This reminds me of the water dragon heist run on arcane arcade

[@AlphaOrion98]

I’m currently doing that in the campaign I’m in. Me and my sister are twin changelings

[@axelz4316]

I have two players that are “brothers” that have grown up as orphans together where one is a changling and the other doesn’t know it.

[@MisterSmith00]

Prior to the official release, I had created a Changeling from a homebrew, named Gin. Initially, the party didn't know he was a changeling...he assumed the identity of a half-elf named Tricky Nym Suda. Little things tipped them off, though...the fact that he couldn't see in the dark with Darkvision, which he brushed off as a phobia of darkness. When it was revealed that he was a changeling, they realized that "Tricky Nym Suda" was actually a "tricky pseudonym"...or fake name. He'd developed multiple aliases of other races, with each name being another word for "fake": Tabaxi Cleric: Mirageh of Lys - or, "Mirage of Lies" Human Wizard: Declan Stein - or, "Clandestine" Dwarven Merchant: Yuri Goodforge - or, "Good forgery" Foreign Royalty: King Phoebus Ubaxta - or, "Backstabbing Fake" Human Performer: Torstun Jack - or, "Just an actor" Loving the new skill that allows changelings to impose disadvantage by making themselves look frightening...it appeals to the more alien nature of their race.

[@peterosborne8315]

Tony Favilla I have Glib Shallowmouth. My party knew about him (it?) from basically the start. I also had magically shifting clothes and the actor feat so I could suddenly be anyone

[@Ethereal_Echo]

I am actually currently running a changeling, and only I and the dm know about it. It will be interesting to see how they react when they find out my true identity. It is quite fun, especially as I created a few other identities that there are rumors about, and that the party has heard of.

[@kylepessell1350]

I'm currently planning a Changeling in a campaign myself. He's a Warlock with the Seeker Pact. In his backstory he was a member of a wandering tribe of Changelings but was abandoned by the group when he refused to give up a Persona named Muse that he'd created and grown quite attached to using. He'd become a rather good Entertainer and he enjoyed the attention he got as a beautiful half-elf girl but his growing fame threatened both himself and his people with exposure. For some time, he continued his travels alone and eventually almost forgot he was a Changeling altogether. One day he almost dropped his shapechange after a grueling performance and fled to a nearby moonlit hill for some privacy. It was there that he met the goddess of magic, Mystra, in the form of an enigmatic young woman. She chided him on hiding the truth from himself and made an offer to help him find it. He now travels around to uncover ancient arcane secrets and long lost lore on her behalf in exchange for a suitably epic journey of self-discovery. It's a rather simple story but it makes him pretty unique among Warlocks. He didn't make his Pact to gain power. He made the Pact to grow as a person. "There is nothing outside of yourself that can ever enable you to get better, stronger, richer, quicker, or smarter. Everything is within. Everything exists. Seek nothing outside of yourself." -Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi

[@KetchupRocket]

My current character is very slightly similar! She uses a disguise of her former mentor, a middle aged high elf, and our party is currently in the dark about her real identity. I use the fact she's "middle aged" as to why she can't see well and play off her not knowing some things to her being "old and forgetful." Changelings are great if you really want to do some fun RP stuff. Not always going with the most optimal race for your class can be hellllllla fun.

[@AfroLedge]

Hey quick question, making a character sheet for a changeling atm I thought you can't change the height or size of your original form?

[@flibbernodgets7018]

The tattoo idea is really clever

[@fredslipknot9]

Flibber Nodgets 100% using it for the Changeling I am playing. It’s brilliant.

[@-Siculus-Hort-]

A missing digit....

[@elvinestrella5895]

I'm gonna play a changling who is really into roleplay, and likes to play tabletop roleplaying games like "Cities and Citizens", where he plays with his changling friends and assume different personas on the table as they role dice.

[@aidangraef5725]

Ooh I love cities and citizens! My favorite class is Pizza Delivery Guy

[@newbestfriend5867]

@@aidangraef5725 I'm more of a drug-dealer myself, but I see your point.

[@RealXibaZulu]

Librarian is a fun role too

[@jgr7487]

a Changeling & a Kenku enter a bar...

[@InquisitorThomas]

A Changeling and Kenku buddy cop adventure would be awesome.

[@brandongalvan6603]

*_Are you a Changeling who has trouble disguising as others because of your equipment? Don't know the Disguise Self spell to deal with that issue? Hat of Disguise ruffle your hair too much? Well have I got just the thing for you: Glamoured Studded Leather! That's right, for the low cost of only 1,000 gp, you finally pull off that city noble look that you've always wanted without having to worry about royal threads. Complete your devious infiltration missions today with Glamoured Studded Leather!_* -Glamoured Studded Leather does not protect against seeing through illusions or the dispelling of magic.-

[@andrecravo3774]

I love this comment

[@nekoali2]

I really love the ideas of Changlings, they have so much an such varied potential in a game. That's why it's one of the races I absolutely knew I wanted to bring into my homebrew setting.

[@ZenodudeMC]

I'm making a changeling warlock that has amnesia and wears a mask to hide there face as it constantly shifts every second unless they try to focus on it using the changeling ability to keep one form. Think that could be a fun idea for a changeling

[@shawnhowe7311]

ZenodudeMC hmmmmm.... Clever

[@Gryphon2026]

Yeah that does sound very fun! ;-)

[@oracleofvideos5220]

That's a really cool visual; an evershifting face that slowly melds into one if they concentrate and focus.

[@Aplesedjr]

Does that mean that it’s entire faces every second, or it’s kind of just a mass of different parts?

[@ZenodudeMC]

TheReal RedWolfofDeath I’m pretty sure that there are different forms of amnesia, so I would play it that aside from remembering his or her gender(not sure which I’m planning yet) that they still remember that there one or the other, and that just the face will shift primarily

[@beastwarsFTW]

Rouge: The changeling could be anyone of us. He could be in this vary room! It could be you it could be me, it could even be "Crossbow bolt in the rouge's face" Monk: WHOA WHOA WHOA! Fighter: What? It was obvious. "Cocks crossbow" Fighter: He's the Changeling.

[@danku1122]

I understood that reference :D

[@nickm-s]

Meet the Changeling. Dun dun dun dundundundun

[@weariestlion8150]

Fighter: He'll change back any second now... look see! grey skin! Oh no that's blood loss

[@josharko111]

@@weariestlion8150 Monk/changeling: right behind you

[@gregoryfloriolli9031]

I shall create a Changeling Rogue Inquisitive and call him Odo.

[@brotherofAnubus]

Gregory Floriolli and I shall create a Goblin Bard to be his best friend

[@palidansghost]

you should also sue the city watch or far traveler background

[@scottmcintyre2809]

You'll need to find someone to play your kind of dopey Goblin Artificer brother though.

[@AbsoluteMongoloid]

I shall make a Yuan-Ti Assassin and name him Garak.

[@liammorais1259]

I kinda like the idea of a changeling that changes forms in response to their emotions

[@shawnhowe7311]

BloodHawk Nice interesting

[@nickm-s]

That would be terrifying to get into an argument with them. You start yelling back and forth, they get up set and their face shifts into some horrible demon looking thing.

[@liammorais1259]

Nick M-S lol or when they're neutral they look like some edgy male drow but when they're happy they become some cheery human girl

[@nickm-s]

BloodHawk I will say I do like the idea of intense emotional outbursts messing with their ability to maintain their chosen face. Like being so happy they just drop it all together and show their true face. (I’ve got this imagine in my head of some guy that’s so angry his face is shifting and bubbling almost as he struggles to keep it together.

[@Emm107]

It’s literally Hades but with more forms

[@gelatinousnewb8368]

Absolutely relate to the idea of a Doppelganger society. In my current setting I have a deity of lies and deception they can become affiliated with that essentially allows them to become a version of a Simulacrum. Full access to memories, abilities and spells but cannot heal (and other drawbacks) in order to set them apart from the "lazy personality" of the Monster Manual stat block. Among other traits they tend to appreciate creatures like Mimics and Quasits that can change their shape as well usually keeping them as pets, familiars and companions. Can't wait to incorporate some of these ideas, Eberron is quickly becoming a favorite of mine.

[@jgr7487]

we usually look at the Changelings' relationship with other races, but can you imagine how crazy it is to live within a Changeling city? if C1 accepts a bribe while in his shift being Bob the North Gate Guard, but the invaders come back in C2's shift, both the party & C1 are in a pretty hard place. another instance of that is when a customer breaks a deal with Mike the Apothecary in C3's shift, but they'll come to pay get the Healing Potion in C4's shift, everything must be well written down.

[@ybba7444]

All DM's are secretly Changelings! :0

[@liminalheadspace5624]

Person - Hi! Who are you? Changling - Hello! Today I am Fred.

[@alexheman7344]

Changeling Theif named Task. Because he has a pitiful memory, his name reminds him he should be soing something.

[@harryrcarmichael]

Very illuminating - ty ! just got tossed into a campaign as a Changeling - never played one before. Thinking of running Eberron when the plague passes.

[@Aevum13th]

I can see people being very suspicious of twins...

[@shawnhowe7311]

Connor Smith hmmmmm....

[@vasudean]

I love the Changeling myself back when they were Doppelgangers in D&D and when I found one could play that race, I immediately jumped on it. My first was a Wizard(he died from a sword through the face by a comrade), now I have a Bard in a campaign where there are few of his kind left and the main bad guy would love to have him as a personal saboteur, which he is not keen on becoming.

[@VillianousKitty]

My changeling bard is my favourite character I've ever made, I will wallow in despair the day she dies. I made her an abandoned orphan so she has no idea what the hell she is, which is real fun as all her personas are similar to the changeling look as she's studied each race that's similar ie. Greyish skinned tiefling. It's also a lot of fun playing numerous different personalities under one character depending on what persona she takes on, it's helped me hone my role playing skills.

[@iam_darthk]

Wait. How do we know this Keith wasn't a Changeling this whole time?

[@thomasjoychild4962]

He had the hat, the real Keith would never let it out of his sight. Unless the changeling incapacitated him somehow and stole it...

[@AwesomePyro]

Or, unless it was a Changling the whole time and it lied about the hat...

[@faolan1113]

@@thomasjoychild4962 the hat is a mimic

[@legallytired110]

I have a ranger changeling named Paik. Paik is an orphan born in a small town, everyone knew he is a changeling so noone adopted him (since noone likes them) and grew up in the orphanage. He always liked animals, reading books and woods. Once he was in the woods and a bear attacked him but a tiefling ranger saved him and (basically) adopted him. The tiefling (his name was Reinor) taught him how to use crossbows, short swords and a spell 'talk with animals'. On one day, when they were walking through the woods, two orcs attacked them. Paik managed to escape them, but the orcs killed Reinor, ever since that day he had his tiefling mask. Paik was alone again until he met a family of four raptors. The mother raptor named Zora adopted him and 'raised' him with her three other children. When Paik grew up he left his raptor family with his raptor brother Nox as a companion/mount and became an adventurer.

[@theusfilipe]

The last few minutes have been edited wrong. It shows Todd Kendreck in a really small square in comparison to the screen

[@zanthox]

SAVE US TINY TODD

[@feralart]

My changeling rogue never would let his party see his true face. He had an arabesque-human look that he would wear full time, unless he was using his abilities to disguise himself to get close to a target or run a deception. Though one member of the group could see his form with a gem of true seeing. Though he did work around the issue of his gear not changing by having his armor enchanted with the Glamour ability and having an eversmoking bottle strapped to his belt (combined with blindfold of darkness for ultimate "I can see you but you can't see me").

[@GixtheDragon]

Finally.... I can now recreate my 3.5e Changeling character with 5e rules

[@PuppyLuvU2]

In one blooper episode a few days layer he came on set without a hat on. Next thing you know a strange man looking like him with his usual hat on came on and attacked him. They fought off screen but then he came back on screen adjusting his hat having blood on his face and clothing then continued the episode.

[@nickm-s]

I’ve been thinking up a changeling character recently (haven’t ever played a game myself but I’ve been interested for a while). The changeling was rescued from a group a people that found out what they are by a monk training at a nearby school who then took them on a student for their final test. (Prove your knowledge by teaching it to someone else). During their training the changeling started to fall for the young monk. After a couple months of the training the school and the village was attacked and burned down. Upon the changeling finding their monk lover dead amount the ruins they take on their likeness and use the skills learned to hunt down who ever was responsible, all the while hiding what they are from the rest of the group at all costs because of what happened last time they were found out. This is my first attempt at a character backstory any thoughts, advice or criticisms are more then welcome.

[@joeljohnson3365]

this is actually an interesting take on the dead lover trope, where you actually take the role of the lost loved one, which could be interesting

[@nickm-s]

Joel Johnson Thanks, did you have any thoughts on how to improve what I have here? Any help would be appreciated. I’m kinda new to character building.

[@joeljohnson3365]

I mean the backstory so far is pretty intriguing, I am not sure if you have or haven't yet but fleshing out the specifics about the relationship, like what it was that your character liked about the monk that made them fall in love with them. this could also be explored in how the changeling plays the part, would they act as the monk how they remember them, focusing on the traits about them that made them fall in love? would they act very defensive of anyone who insults them, not because they are offended themselves, but because they take it as the person insulting the monk they love? so tldr the backstory is fine, you just need to flesh out the reasoning behind choices and the consequences of those choices.

[@nickm-s]

Joel Johnson that’s a interesting idea, playing the idealised person they remember acting how you hope they’d act not how they might actually. And the defensive thing could be interesting if I could pull it off without coming across as whiny. I’m also thinking maybe it wasn’t necessarily a shared love, maybe the changeling had feeling for the monk but they didn’t reciprocate those feelings. Maybe something is discovered down the line and how would the changeling react to that?

[@Ragarolli]

I’m playing a changeling who was being taught to be an assassin, but before he could finish training he ran away. Basically during training, him and other changeling were punished if they were to change form without an order. He was taught like this basically since birth and when he ran away as a teen, it was weird for him at first. And now he has a few personas for certain things. (Being a smuggler). Would be interesting to see if he encounters another changeling again. Changelings are rare in the world my DM made.

[@ddqfpluskick]

Changling with glamorous leather armor best magic item ever I am playing a changling in the mad mage and did play it in waterdeep heist. My backstory was I was born in sigil from changlings that got stuck there. I go out and I am surviving in waterdeep. I spent the entire water deep campaign avoiding letting my party know I was a changling.

[@ybba7444]

This is very interesting to me because I'm going to play a changeling in a campaign, so this is very helpfull!

[@estelle7021]

A changling bard was my first character ever 10+ years ago. Can't wait to play one again in adventures league!

[@Breland1976]

Love Eberron!

[@billyrigby4839]

Me too! I literally made a Twitter called EberronFor5thEd because I wanted it in this system so bad. So happy about this!!!

[@caos1925]

I've been wondering though, is there any reason for a changeling, to ever wear its true skin, really how would anyone ever find out? Like those trading caravans, say all of them disguise as humans, how would people in the cities find out the truth, and therefore be paranoid of them? And one more thing, can changelings, especially mages, fight in one of their disguised forms, or do they have to take their true form to fight all out?

[@jime7001]

If I'm not mistaken, there are a few things that would force the Changeling into their "true" form, like a failed save on Moonbeam. But no, there is no real reason for the Changeling to willingly spend time in their "true" form, as far as I can tell.

[@birb125]

From what i hear around, changelings get exhausted keeping their form Aand they can use their true form to scare monsters and such

[@wilsan806]

@@birb125 While 5e doesn't penalize changelings for staying in a persona, it is a very neat bit of flavor for them to exhausted over time.

[@Yoshwayy]

"l'm the dude, playing the dude, DISGUISED AS ANOTHER DUDE"

[@spectranwolfinfusion]

My idea for a character was that they were caught and tortured with magic which broke their mind and fractured into the initial character and three other parts of the characters conscious and unconscious that is determined by a D4 roll as to which comes out

[@riograndesam3540]

Came to this video to do a bit of research for my new character, she is a changeling warlock who when she made her pact the price she paid was her sanity, now her two most used personas sort of took on a life of their own and as such she randomly becomes one of three personalities, her base one, and both of her two most used personas, her mind is broken to the point she only actually knows she's a changeling if it is her base personality, I am translating this to game mechanics my rolling a d12 with a 30% chance for each after each long rest. I must admit I am quite excited to se how this character turns out.

[@Themagfairy]

For the campaign my crew are currently doing I am a Changeling named Una and I was discovered alone in the woods and an ambitious priest found me and raised me as his own. So my character has no idea about other Changelings so we dropped the whole personas thing and much of the cultural things, we also made it so I can only change into a person I've seen before and only exactly as I saw them, so if someone is dying of pox and I change into them, I will also appear to have pox. We also made Changelings outlaws and the church is in charge of hunting them down and drowning them in a sacred lake so my crew has to try and keep my identity secret from any NPCs we come in contact with (which hasn't really worked out well. I have also run into people whos face I was wearing, VERY AWKWARD!) And the DM created a metal that dispells magic when coming in contact with a mage or Changeling, so they revert to their original form (which we made really grotesque) also a lot of magical effects and visions and levels of exhaustion force me to revert. So we kinda nerfed Changelings really good lol

[@eveescastle5866]

I have a changeling warlock who is under the guise of a Human woman name Liliana because she wants to leave her old life behind and doesn't want anyone from her past coming back. She has done a lot of things she is not proud of and has built up this persona as an attempt at starting anew because she wants to do better. But of course old habits die hard and she sometimes gets caught in the middle of sticky situations.

[@denieruleo]

Keith I'm with you on the hat. I've got a similar hat of my own that I almost always have on.

[@BrockitGaming]

Yes my favorite race for my Ninja-like, telepathic Warlock illusionist character!

[@infinitemind3719]

Here’s a Changling character persona I want personal opinions on. A half elf who constantly wears a mask who was raised by Changlings after being left out on the streets as a child, most likely using the basterd rout, they sort of adopted him for a number of reasons. Sympathy, could make it so they seem like a actual regular family, and a sort of practiced or their actual children to disguise themselves as. He would constantly play a Changling game with his adoptive siblings using a plain mask. Practicing acts as different people and scenarios with it on. Later in years the Changling family is discovered and skinned by wizards/hunters to make disguise self items, shout out to Monty on unexpectables, except for the half elf boy. They just beat him to a near bloody pulp, red hot poker to the eye, scaring across the face and body, maybe a missing ear or toe, and slit of the throat scar. Then thrown into the gutter to die but saved by a cleric. And now continues the way of life of his adoptive family of impersonation, spying, forgery, and such; class is rogue assassin. Constantly wearing a mask to hide he scars and a reminder of his family. Personality: Hides pain and sadness with a smiling optimistic actor, with a little sadistic side, kinda feel. Truth be told half that story is actually true. Except: he and two of his siblings survived because they were rescued by a neighboring kingdom, I was kinda thinking a sorta warrior princess kinda deal to add a bit of romance to the character’s backstory and future story plot, and now works as a spy/assassin for said kingdom to repay a the debt that is owed and to give his younger siblings protection and a normal, if not wealthy, life. I couldn’t decide to go assassin or mastermind because both seem similar in their roles of espionage but the assassin had much more perks for that role. By the way the character is not evil or anything mischievous in anyway. If I had to describe the personality he is actually a kind dude, no need to worry about betrayals or stealing from the party. He fits in moral lines gray but leans towards good. Neutral good or lawful neutral is where I would generally put him. I want to play a Changling character that blurs the lines of what is good or evil. Make player characters who believe Changlings are pure evil or selfish question their beliefs. I won’t tell the party that my character is a Changling until I can truly trust them and know how they feel about Changlings and their actual plight. And until I’m sure they won’t immediately murder me for being a Changling, for lying, or for just being a rogue. I’ve heard way to many stories of PCs being murdered for being a rogue or necromancer. Even when they’ve proven that they are not evil in anyway. Think it’s a good persona? Good cover story/disguise from the party believing my character is a Changling? Any suggestions or tips for playing a Changling?

[@Ray-hk1zm]

Honestly, I love that??? Go for it! I actually was thinking about playing a changeling character, but I have an issue (I dunno if you'd be a good person to help or not, but I'll ask just in case): I'm kind of interested in a changeling character who's very fluid - in gender and physical form, but not in name or personality. Basically, they'd wear different forms like clothing, picking whatever they feel like being - whether it's a male tiefling, a non-binary water genasi, or a female human (or anything else - those aren't the only options). Literally whatever. It isn't a lying thing, or an issue of identity (aside from the gender thing obviously) it's just a form of expression. My worry is: 1: As a cis female, is it even my place to play a genderfluid character? 2: Is it in any way offensive or harmful to have a character who can shapeshift be genderfluid? Sorry if these aren't questions you know the answers to, but I figured I'd try! If there isn't an issue, do you like the concept? I have a more in-depth backstory idea for them that doesn't really involve all that stuff, but this is the issue I'm a little worried about.

[@CovertPheonix]

Anyone else curious that a changelings true form would look like? Like as a baby do they just immediately morph into what ever their parents look like? Or are they like a grey mannequin type creature. I haven't seen official artwork yet, so maybe there's an answer I'm just not aware of.

[@calvinbridges-avalos9911]

Shawn Ski look a little like doppelgangers but with more human features. Of I remember correctly they are naturally hairless, but some choose to give themselves hair even if they don't take on a face. Changeling babies aren't in control of their abilities so they usually copy parts of whoever they can see in front of them. This sometimes causes their parents to abandon them if the parents aren't known to be changelings and are scared of being found out.

[@cjthemisfit]

My changlings original form has grey skin with jet black hair, one yellow and one green eye.

[@messiahnyx971]

Would love to play this outside of eberron

[@MUETZE198]

I'm currently play a changeling monk. She grew up in a monastery which was a facade for a secluded changeling community. After her brother got killed she assumed his persona and hopes to lure out his killers. She is pretty clueless about the world outside of her monastery and often messes upher backstory One time she has a brother the other time it is a sister. Until now she was not forced to reveal to her party that she is a changeling and I'm kinda curious how long my party will think that she is her brother

[@davidragan9233]

I was thinking of a character (For Forgotten Realms, hoping a hard-copy of Eberon comes out) who finds out they are a Doppelganger I figured the best way would be to break up the abilities Transform and the persona of the Changelings at creation, with the Telepathy at 8 0r 10? before that they might hear echos or the random doublespeak (People saying one thing and thinking another but having no control of it.)

[@E3AloeLi]

I have a changeling who grew up in a human cominity and never learned how to change, whats always interesting is taking their natural cultural thing, and meeting it out of them

[@Candied.Carrion]

One time, the dm forgot I was on the team, and she shifted a tattoo of immortality onto her wrist, some fights later, she dies, and then she is revived by it.

[@andrewwelker7287]

That secret changeling code could be inspired by the quilt pattern code used by the Underground Railroad in slave-era United States.

[@dirtydan5679]

Can't wait to play the race

[@Rh3ttD4v1s]

Todd Xen'Drik

[@billyrigby4839]

YESSSS!!!!!! Best comment of the day... but only because I am an Eberron nerd!

[@markburns3476]

Could a changeling grow wings I'm not asking if they can be used just I'm my campaign my character died and house dimir has been keeping track of this group of adventurers previously we saved a group of angels I'm thinking about becoming a angle version of myself to trick the party

[@ThiccBane]

A man has thought of a great RP idea. Time to serve the many faced god.

[@wynnefox]

Reminds me of Changlings from Palladium Fantasy.

[@tinysneakybagel782]

Okay, but I think about doppelgängers :( I’ve been trying to create a doppelgänger character since forever but I can’t find any stats

[@beastwarsFTW]

I think dogs can tell if your a changeling, the nose knows thing.

[@NirousPlayers]

Makes total sense

[@AfroLedge]

Hey quick question, making a character sheet for a changeling atm I see alot of people talking about their changeling characters having personas at different heights (one human persona, one Dwarven persona, but I thought you can't change the height of your original form? Just wanna know if I can actually have differing heights or not

[@JustaBea]

From everything I've read, as long as the size of the humanoid race you're shifting into is also medium, you can change to any hight within the range. The smallest my changeling went was 3'11" and the tallest 7'9"

[@LuusiWolfe]

OMG! A race that is basically Scanlan Shorthalt. love it!

[@thechosenjam]

Could you be half changling and half something for example half changeling and half high elf and have both abilities/statistics

[@charliescheirmann2926]

So you're asking to get multiple races at once? I mean anything is possible with a DM that allows it. But I don't think anyone in their right mind will just let you pick and choose pieces of different races that you like.

[@thechosenjam]

@@charliescheirmann2926 ok so you could be but how much of much of limitation

[@charliescheirmann2926]

@@thechosenjam whatever the DM allows

[@RexYoung206]

lol proficiencies (like medicine) being tied to the individual identity, at the time it was learned

[@kguy2249]

Could a changeling technically change into a warforged, or something close to it?

[@ethenk9797]

A changeling can appear as any race, as long as it stays a medium size. They’d still keep their normal stats though.

[@S4M4R1T4N]

You're talking about piercings, fillings, and implants in the movie The Thing. Except changelings can't destroy your entire planet in a matter of weeks though I guess.

[@LokNWykLeer]

I'd play Yugi Moto and choose playing cards to double for my persona.

[@bencarroll8336]

LokNWykLeer lol everytime before you start a game of cards you shift to look a foot taller.

[@LokNWykLeer]

Exactly! Also, for the American release, I replace all my weapons with me just pointing my finger at the enemy.

[@BrockitGaming]

Its time to d-d-d-d-dule!

[@Bluecho4]

A deck of playing cards could easily act as an Arcane Focus. Run the Changeling as a Wizard Conjurer, so you're flashing cards and literally summoning monsters to fight for you.

[@jt_myth]

gf's making a changeling, when he mentions if others would trust you...why would you reveal you're a changeling? I guess it depends on if changelings are frowned upon

[@shawnhowe7311]

Jared .Tisher Good to know if they are in your party

[@Naqaj]

The other players in my party didn't know my character was a changeling for 7 sessions. Revealing that can be a great dramatic turn, your GF is going to have a lot of fun with that character if she really leans into that. Good luck.

[@liger04]

I think it just depends on how much trust the character trusts the party and vice versa. Would you rather tell them and be able to explain while they still have some small amount of trust in you, or would you rather they discover much later it and become suspicious of you for hiding it?

[@jhinpotion9230]

Jared .Tisher Wouldn't it be a huge weight off your chest to be able to be open about who you are to someone?

[@jt_myth]

Jhin Potion she kinda made it a thing to kill anyone who finds out...so...

[@charliescheirmann2926]

A changeling on the run from an old life they had, but they are being hunted as they hold secrets of important people in their old life. So they are constantly being tracked and followed by bounty hunters specializing in hunting changelings with items such as glasses that allow them to see changelings in their true form, and manacles that force changelings to drop their disguise.

[@jackservans6906]

What if a changeling was insane and actually adopted a different personality for every form they take like Jeckel and Hide.

[@VillianousKitty]

My changeling bard is purely unhinged, she was raised to be nothing more than a weapon and uses her personas to express herself. Her personas are neutral or good as she protects her allies and runs a business, but when in her usual form she'd snap your neck for sneezing near her no matter who tf you are, even if you were a childhood friend... I purposely made her an absolute sociopath at heart who is trying to navigate through emotions and society by mimicking others... And only "takes the faces" of those she's killed. My DM made essentially made her a boogeyman within her city, an urban legend designed to keep children in check. "If you don't behave the Lady of Faces will take you away and steal your face" 😏😂

[@ItsVikVaughn]

Wow nice hat; glad I play a race created by someone in a cowboy hat.

[@MKPwrz]

Do changeling take on the voice of someone or their races voice

[@jime7001]

Changelings can change their voice however they please, shapeshifting their vocal chords to suit their desires

[@andrewharding5173]

i wonder what his hair looks like

[@mooshy2]

Just made a Changeling Illusion Wizard and named him “Action.” “Mr. Action.” Say it fast.

[@-Siculus-Hort-]

What about a changling that is "the thing"....

[@ymir6843]

He kept saying you can't change your equipment, well yah logically no but can you change into equipment? Like changing your entire appearance to a guy in a trench coat of a rock

[@jime7001]

That might pose a problem if you want to wear any armor...

[@samgafford2371]

Dude... What if Doppio/Diavalo was a Changeling

[@lookerl1900]

Bro, Todd looks si hot. So he actually had hair.

[@markbyrd7710]

You guys left an "i" out on the title. Haha changelngs

[@frankgross5598]

Now say one of persona is a elf who happens to be good with a crossbow. So when im using a crossbow would i get the bonus

[@iconocast]

odo from ds9 basicly

[@Paultimate7]

Is it raining a lot where he's from? Why is he wearing that hat?

[@madmachanicest9955]

I think a changeling with stat shefting and mass shefting power of palymorfesom wow be super cool reshaping there bodys in to waepions

[@Horrorpilled]

I'm playing a changeling is a realm were magic is outlawed...... HAH

[@shawnhowe7311]

Interesting

[@gossamera4665]

It's interesting, you could have several personalities but in the end you're just noone, none of those personalites are yours, you're always pretending so what reason could anyone have to trust you once they find out. I suppose philosophically one could argue that humans are the same in some respect, putting on different masks with different people, you probably don't act the same when you're with your parents, versus friends and strangers, but obviously that's to a lesser degree, hopefully. I keep thinking attack of the bodysnatchers, they move in, they take over some identities, they lay eggs and their population secretly grows. That's why I wouldn't want to put them in any campaign I'd make, because once you've experienced that how can you ever trust anyone ever again. And how could you ever hope to stop a threat like that. Kinda like the illusion, dream scenario, where you defeat the bad but turns out you were just dreaming you did and you're still within a dream. Once you go down that rabbit hole it all becomes pointless because now you can never truly know if you're awake or forever trapped. I wouldn't mind trying to play one for the opportunity to play several characters at once but I would never include them in any worlds I make, they're just too big of a threat to be allowed to exist and breeds excessive paranoia.

[@RustyyFork]

If I was Hasbro I would sue this person

[@user-xq8ir9mw3r]

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