Doppelganger

"Sometimes monsters are good."

## Background/Society

While it isn’t completely known where they come from Doppelgangers are usually born into the Fringes of normal civilized societies. Typically found living in the slums or less populated towns as unwanted orphans or vagabonds. Often they are left with nothing more than scraps that they have had to beg for. Due to their almost alien looking natural physique It is common for them to experience much mistreatment during their formative years. This often leads them to be distrusting of others. However should you earn their trust, it is not uncommon for them to treat you as if you were family. While they have no predisposition toward any particular alignment, due to their upbringing they often have trouble with the law. However for those of these creatures that do reach adulthood they are often able to evade arrest due to their natural abilities that appear when they reach physical maturity between the ages of ten to twelve. Given their ability to change into the shape of almost any civilized race, They quickly learn to adapt into the very societies that had previously shunned them. Some Doppelgangers choose to adopt a new Identity for their entire lives, while many others choose to change their identities fairly regularly. Due to their natural talents at deception and their desire to elevate their social status.

The life of these lesser humanoids often tend to push them into a more chaotic and evil way of life simply from the reasons of how they were usually murdered and distrusted thanks to their deceptive skill set. Unlike most adventurers, these doppelgangers tend to aid their own kin, hoping to assimilate them and even offer more power and wealth in hopes of constructing an even deeper and more wealthy position of their own.

Their own magical abilities are perfect for assisting in their lifestyle, at least to living longer than the age of thirteen if they have already managed to remain hidden for so long. Many of their kind are naïve and less wise in the art of deception and often create large gangs. Using stupid tactics such as mimicry of a single person within a party as oppose dispatching and replacing that member for longer periods of times. This race is a highly despised and hated group, due to this power as people tend to find someone where their face is an imposter when clearly it's just because they haven't seen anything more ravishing or useful than the one they currently wear.

This race often seeks higher power or forms of wealth, unwilling to stoop back into their previous lives that generally start in poverty. Doppelgangers often seek the love and praise that they never were able to receive when they were children. Most parents, in this race either leave their children on the streets hoping for others to pick them up or sell them into slavery if they have already earned their way life. They are a deceptive and greedy race fitting a rogue well.

## Physical Description

Doppelgangers tend to look more alien than humanoid underneath all their magic and parlor tricks. If they are playing their roles properly, a doppelganger usually disguises themselves after a deceased homeless man or someone they managed to dispatch without anyone ever realizing had disappeared. Due to this, their usual appearance is a rather gangly anorexic appearing humanoid long gangling arms that are almost meat upon bones depending on how well fed they are. The diet being a rather difficult one being as they mainly tend to eat the prey they catch treating them to a mostly carnivorous diet which sometimes sets people off to their true nature while in disguise and also making their rib cage and bones more pronounced beneath their pale clammy grey flesh. This boney structure resembles more of that of a skeleton with a skin suit pasted over bones. A natural form of the doppelganger is completely void of hair as they tend to alter their appearance to mask this more horrific form and disguise themselves in beauty as even their own race find their natural form rather disgusting.

## Standard Racial Traits(Rp Values)

Type: Monstrous Humanoid (3 RP)

Speed: Normal Speed (0 RP)

Size: 30ft Medium (0 RP) no size bonuses

Languages: Standard(0 RP)

Standard Ability Scores (0 RP) +2dex +2cha -2con

Change Shape, Greater (6 RP) Benefit: Members of this race gain the following supernatural ability: a member of this race can assume the appearance of a Small or Medium humanoid as the alter self spell, save that it does not adjust its ability scores.

Steal Identity (3 RP) When the Doppelganger uses their Change Shape ability they can attempt to assume the form of a specific individual Granting them a +10 Racial bonus to Disguise as that individual. This does not grant the Doppelganger the abilities of the individual they are imitating, and does not change the clothing the doppelganger is wearing.

#### Claws (2 RP)

Prerequisites: None.

Benefit: Members of this race receive two claw attacks. These are primary natural attacks. The damage is based on the creature’s size.

#### Stalker (1 RP)

Prerequisites: None.

Benefit: Perception and Stealth are always class skills for members of this race.