Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common and two other languages of your choice. You stay in the new form until you use an action to revert to your true form or until you die.Ĭhangeling Instincts : You gain proficiency with two of the following skills of your choice: Deception, Insight, Intimidation, and Persuasion. Your clothing and equipment aren’t changed by this trait. You can’t duplicate the appearance of a creature you’ve never seen, and you must adopt a form that has the same basic arrangement of limbs that you have. You can make yourself appear as a member of another race, though none of your game statistics change. You can also adjust your height and weight, but not so much that your size changes. You determine the specifics of the changes, including your coloration, hair length, and sex.
Shapechanger: As an action, you can change your appearance and your voice. Speed: Your base walking speed is 30 feet. While a changeling can transform to conceal their age, the effects of aging affect them similarly to humans.Īlignment: Changelings tend toward pragmatic neutrality, and few changelings embrace evil.
In addition, one ability score of your choice increases by 1.Īge: Changelings mature slightly faster than humans but share a similar lifespan - typically a century or less. Your Changeling character has the following racial traits.Ībility Score Increase : Your Charisma score increases by 2. Their true names are usually simple, monosyllabic, and genderless.Ĭhangeling True Names: Aic, Arx, Bic, Duc, Dug, Hukt, Im, Jik, Jirx, Mas, Mis, Nug, Oz, Pags, Pim, Sirs, Tors, Vaen, Von. However, there is a true name to every changeling, and it is usually only shared with other changelings or those it has absolute trust in. Changeling NamesĪ single changeling might be known as “Captain Jackdaw”, “Old Lady Withers”, “Knuckle Sandwich McGee” and “Steve”, but to a changeling a name is just another trait to be traded out like an old coat. These are appearances that have little to no thought put into them, and don’t usually withhold the force of thorough scrutiny. A thing to be put on or taken off like an accessory. When they’re just tricking a guard or using a face for a little while, they call it a “mask”. Keeping their true nature a secret can become all-consuming in these situations, especially if they’ve married. For many changelings, a persona can become their real life, and become who they are. Changelings put a lot of thought and work into these personas, and in ideal circumstances they can last a lifetime and form real relationships wearing these personas.
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They’re typically thin and gaunt, and their hair is usually silvery with an occasional green or pink tint.īut what are you doing wearing your “true” face? You can be anyone you want! Changelings can reshape themselves to look like anybody, there’s a few minor limits there but for the most part you can look like whoever you want!Ĭhangelings tend to form “personas”, full identities that they live with for extended periods of time.
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Their true skin is usually grey or pale white, and their facial features are blank slates to an unnerving degree. Obviously, a changeling’s appearance can change at any moment, but they do have a true form. Such situations are sadly few and far between, persecution of changelings is rampant as it’s hard for many to accept a people that can be anyone. Or rarely, some communities accept changelings whole cloth, and the shapeshifters are simply regarded as regular members of society.
These tribes will sometimes take the guise of thieves’ guilds, or entertainers, or thieving entertainers. There are also roaming changeling tribes, caravans living the life of their traveler god and never staying in one place long enough to be discovered. Most human settlements have at least a few changelings hidden within them, living their lives or even multiple lives with their neighbors completely ignorant of the deception. Originally, they were descendants of doppelgangers (which makes total sense) but the current lore leaves their real origins a mystery beyond a legendary blessing of a mysterious traveler.Ĭurrently, changelings are a scattered people without a strong culture to build upon, rather they usually disappear into other cultures. Changeling CultureĬhangelings cropped up way back in 3rd edition and they’ve gone through a few lore shifts since the olden days. So, stick with us as we delve into the hidden world of changelings and go through everything you need to know.
Their origins are mysterious and secretive, and so are they most of the time. Changelings get to re-sculpt themselves like Clayface whenever they like and if you can’t come up with some shenanigans with that you’re just not trying hard enough. Image licensed from Improvise, Adapt, OvercomeĬhangelings hide right under our noses, sometimes while wearing our noses.