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Changelings gonna change!
>Changelings gonna change!
Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch--
[Your changeling encountered a problem and stopped responding.]
[Reboot?]
Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch--
[Your changeling encountered a problem and stopped responding.]
[Reboot?]
Or have high level mages of some kind that shapeshift to a changeling!
Hee hee, now that sounds like a good time messing with a villain NPC!
You know what that means, Twi.
Time for super-embarrassing super-private questions only Cadance of your childhood would know the answer to. :)
Time for super-embarrassing super-private questions only Cadance of your childhood would know the answer to. :)
Twilight: "How many punches can the real Cadance take before dropping?"
Imposter!Cadance: "Wait, what?"
Imposter!Cadance: "Wait, what?"
If it's Twilight doing the punching, 3
One to confuse her
One to stun her
One to faint her
One to confuse her
One to stun her
One to faint her
Twilight: pupils shrinking "ohno"
That's true, Cadence doesn't know it's the real Twilight Sparkle.
I don't think the comic is going to go this route, but I do think there might be an interesting story in "The character that everyone knew and loved this whole time was the imposter living out the life of someone they thought had died, but now the other person is back and wants revenge on their imposter"
(I mean, it's kind of the plot of a recent movie, and I've seen something like it in a video game, but I haven't seen it in a D&D context and that might be neat.)
(I mean, it's kind of the plot of a recent movie, and I've seen something like it in a video game, but I haven't seen it in a D&D context and that might be neat.)
It's also the plot of a simpsons episode if i remember correctly.
(also which movie is that cus it sounds interesting)
(also which movie is that cus it sounds interesting)
It's a film that released on March 22nd, 2019, from a horror director who surprised everyone when they stepped into the scene in 2017.
The whole thing I mentioned is kind of a massive spoiler for the plot of the film, so I'm trying to keep it vague for the sake of not messing with other people's experience.
I'm sure there are other examples too, the "kill and replace" trope is common enough. But that was the example that occurred to me.
The whole thing I mentioned is kind of a massive spoiler for the plot of the film, so I'm trying to keep it vague for the sake of not messing with other people's experience.
I'm sure there are other examples too, the "kill and replace" trope is common enough. But that was the example that occurred to me.
That's the plot of the Nightmare Time episode "Forever and Always".
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Elvis. He's the Schrodinger's Cat of potentially dead celebrities.
Let's be fair, by now he's almost certainly succumbed to age, but for 50 years he was the one
Let's be fair, by now he's almost certainly succumbed to age, but for 50 years he was the one
Reminds me of a really, really weird Wh40k Black Crusade campaign I ran, with players wholey unable to play scumbags.... Instead of becoming Daemon Princes they ended up becoming imperial saints instead...
As for WHY it reminds me... There was a Arc where a Inquisiter they inexplicably sided with sent them to infiltrate a Tau city on some planet, and foun a EPIDEMIC of bootleg Polymorphine created from some byproduct of a local sea creature that was totally not space Ilithids.
Who was really who and doing what was intentionally impossible to track, but seemed like it COULD be figured out, but I designed it so that whatever they ultimately decided to do was right...
One of the PCs barely managed to make a compound that causes Polymorphine is o Explode on contact... And we're so annoyed by the shape shifting that the fact it was a horridly painful, scarring acid on anyone NOT using Polymorphine was an acceptable side effect, and the players and the NPC sidekicks were all required to carry some at all times...
THE FACT IT WAS EXTREMELY PAINFUL ORGANIC ACID actually came in handy fa, far more then once... So many ruined eyeballs...
As for WHY it reminds me... There was a Arc where a Inquisiter they inexplicably sided with sent them to infiltrate a Tau city on some planet, and foun a EPIDEMIC of bootleg Polymorphine created from some byproduct of a local sea creature that was totally not space Ilithids.
Who was really who and doing what was intentionally impossible to track, but seemed like it COULD be figured out, but I designed it so that whatever they ultimately decided to do was right...
One of the PCs barely managed to make a compound that causes Polymorphine is o Explode on contact... And we're so annoyed by the shape shifting that the fact it was a horridly painful, scarring acid on anyone NOT using Polymorphine was an acceptable side effect, and the players and the NPC sidekicks were all required to carry some at all times...
THE FACT IT WAS EXTREMELY PAINFUL ORGANIC ACID actually came in handy fa, far more then once... So many ruined eyeballs...
I've never had a shapeshifter in my game, but I HAVE thrown Mimics at the party! Would that count as thematically relevant?
Honestly, mimics are a lot of fun all 'round, I highly recommend them! They're not grievously difficult, but they throw a wrench into combat that forces them to think and improvise, at least a little. And there's so many options! Give a mimic the Giant or Young template so that the PCs can't even judge by size whether it's a mimic or not! (I had a Giant Mimic that was disguised as a four-post canopy bed. Lots of fun!)
Alternatively, throw a mimic WITH a mimic. My party was kind of expecting the suspicious chest to be a mimic, and was prepared to grab a big keg of ale to destroy its sticky ichor... but of the two available, they picked the wrong one... it was ALSO a mimic. TWICE as much fun!
Other mimic ideas: test the party's memory, have a "door" slam in what used to be an empty narrow archway! How many chairs were around the dining table? For bonus confusion, mimics are smart enough to move other objects to throw you off the scent!
Honestly, mimics are a lot of fun all 'round, I highly recommend them! They're not grievously difficult, but they throw a wrench into combat that forces them to think and improvise, at least a little. And there's so many options! Give a mimic the Giant or Young template so that the PCs can't even judge by size whether it's a mimic or not! (I had a Giant Mimic that was disguised as a four-post canopy bed. Lots of fun!)
Alternatively, throw a mimic WITH a mimic. My party was kind of expecting the suspicious chest to be a mimic, and was prepared to grab a big keg of ale to destroy its sticky ichor... but of the two available, they picked the wrong one... it was ALSO a mimic. TWICE as much fun!
Other mimic ideas: test the party's memory, have a "door" slam in what used to be an empty narrow archway! How many chairs were around the dining table? For bonus confusion, mimics are smart enough to move other objects to throw you off the scent!