"The Awakening" OCC

Oo...you dastardly DM. You DASTARDLY dastardly DM...how ookily awesome of you!

This is truly a life for a life, though I wonder all the ramifications of the situation...

Definitely not! Keep up the ooks, and I'll try an' keep up with the shifting personas.

I definitely see him gaining a level in fighter soon, with the way he's entered combat-though I'll still keep up the MS and Hide, cause those have proven useful for this sort of foray.

Thank you for the fun game! Cya around Sigil.

Improve Change Self

You have honed your inherent ability to morph so that you acquire more of the creature's traits.

Prerequisites: Change Self ability

Benefit: You gain one of the creature's Special Qualities, such as damage reduction, scent, or tremorsense. This follows the same restrictions as for the creature, except that the save DCs are modified using your ability scores.

Normal: You can only gain the creature's natural and extraordinary special attacks.

Special: This feat can be taken multiple times. Each time it increases the number of qualities you are able to use.

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Inherent Supernatural Ability

You are able to tap into the creature's supernatural talents.

Prerequisite: Improved Change Self

Benefit: You can utilize the creature's supernatural special attacks.

Normal: You can only use a creature's natural and extraordinary special attacks.

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Just a couple of the ideas floating in my head. Wanted to balance it so that he couldn't get them super quick, but not so much that a doppleganger couldn't develop anything else relating to his class, either.

Let me know what you think and we'll go from there.

Just wondering exactly what the gametime difference between Aras and Argint is... as in how far behind am I?

Woot, time travel even!

Hahaha. jk. Glad to see you're still with us Cernunnos; I think we'll have fun as a party.

Is Eastern Standard Time five or six hours behind GMT?

And yeah, I'm looking forward to Aras and Argint meeting back up

Thanks! It certainly has been!! I thought it was funny when I DMed a little one-on-one with a guy as an intro to DnD and used the session as inspiration for part of my tale...I still get a kick from telling my pal his character has to die before the story ends.

Cern, I'm thinking our characters will make an interesting and malleable team--poss. two assassins, if we wanted to take the PrC.

I have a bunch of inspiration from the Live Free or Die Hard movie that I watched last night...expect some ranks in Intimidate soon.

Trias,
If okay with you, I will await a response to the PM I just sent in reply to your PM. (depending upon your answer(s), her course of actions may change. (also relative to Xasskorn/X'boryn's decision).

Benyamin (& Trias): you should consider looking into the "Monster" feats in the Savage Species book -it has a lot of official feats that would increase/expand the doppleganger abilities.*

As for PrC's: Assassin is an excellent choice -so is Mindspy (or coupling the two).*

*I'm willing to post/pm either for you if desired.

Indeed, the three of our characters would make an extremely potent espianoge/assassin squad. (Aras included due to his hobgoblin sneakiness and class abilities). Even Xasskorn as an extremely dexterous drow with magical abilities would be an incredible smooth addition.

(Of course having such an allied assassin/espionage/infiltration group would indeed be sweet satisfaction to The Whitewhisper -Trias, you especially know why).

Indeed, Phaed'dyiin will most pleased to see Aras again. Also, (making some assumptions on Argint's alignment/ethos here from the posts), it seems that are alignments all seem very compatable -rather than the previous group that had a CN in the group. (Nothing against Jasper or Dolmen, the concept was awesome -though someone like Phaed'yiin could only loathe the disgusting compost pile).

Trias: sent a new PM.
I'll post the Mindspy within the day or tommorrow. (Do you want the official doppleganger-ish feats as well?)

Well, good news: I believe that X'boryn is going to come back and play as well (he also mentioned that another friend might like to join, but that is uncertain and is ultimately up to Trias).

Benyamin, here are those official feats and the Mindspy PrC:

ASSUME SUPERNATURAL ABILITY [GENERAL]

You learn to use a supernatural ability of an assumed form.
Prerequisite: Wis 13, ability to assume a new form magically.
Benefit: You learn to use a single supernatural ability of another kind of creature while assuming its form through polymorph spell or similar effect. The saving throw DC against this ability is based on your ability scores, not those of a standard creature of the kind whose form you have assumed. For a breath weapon, the saving throw DC is 10+ your Constitution modifier + 1/2 your HD (rounded down). For all other supernatural abilities, the saving throw, if any, DC is 10 + your Charisma modifier + 1/2 your HD (rounded down).
Using this alien ability is disorienting. You take a -2 penalty on all attack rolls, saving throws, skill checks, and ability checks. Additionally, in a stressful or demanding situation (such as combat), you must succeed on a Will save (DC 19) or be unable to use the ability.
Normal: Without this feat, you cannot use the supernatural abilities of a creatue whose form you assume.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times. You cannot apply it more than once to the same ability in order to improve the Will save DC. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a different special ability.

IMPROVED ASSUME SUPERNATURAL ABILITY [GENERAL]

You gain skill with using a supernatural ability of an assumed form.
Prerequisite: Wis 17, Assume Supernatual Ability, ability to assume a new form magically.
Benefit: This feat functions like Assume Supernatural Ability, except that you do not take the -2 penalty on all attack rolls, saves, skill checks, and ability checks when using it.
Special: You can take this feat multiple times, but you cannot apply it more than once to the same special ability. Each time you take the feat, it applies to a different special ability

QUICK CHANGE [GENERAL]

You can shift to an alternate form faster and more easily than you otherwise could.
Prerequisite: Dex 15, alternate form special quality.
Benefit: The time it takes for you to change forms is reduced as follows.

Normal: Standard Action -reduces to: Move-equivalent action.
Normal: Move-equivalent action -reduces to: Swift-action.

This feat cannot reduce the time it takes to change forms less than the time required for a swift action.

So good news is that there are some cool Doppleganger-gravy feats.

Bad news is that you can't already be doing supernatural abilities (such as a Half-Dragon's breath weapon). Also, you can't even assume the form of a Half-Dragon -its against the rules since the Doppleganger's Change Shape ability does not allow it to take the forms of Templated creatures (see the SRD for reference or the MM index/glossary).

Not trying to burst your bubble -Argint is still super-cool. (But he's even cooler when he accomplishes what he does fairly and by the rules).

I'll post the Mind-spy later (its in the Complete Warrior if you have it). It has a sample Doppleganger for it too! (I'm saying you should pick up the PrC, but might want to take a look at it).

Ah, now I see the restriction. Thanks, Dialexis, for the heads up. Guess I scanned over that section and read the bullet points more closely, as they had the pertinent in-game break down. Anywho, guess Eldreesh won't be coming around any more.

True, though never quite understood the size restriction on dragon wings when half the other temps had wings.

Anywho, that sounds good, 'cept the Wis restriction would be a problem. Ol' Argint doesn't have that high enough at the moment. Such is the life of a character.