Requested by someone who chose to remain anonymous
Chris and Liam Hemsworth were coming back from the day at the beach, unaware they had a visitor waiting for them in Chris’ house. The pair were laughing and joking as they went inside, not realising they’d locked the door when they’d left but it was definitely unlocked now.
The familiar intruder grinned as the pair failed to notice him behind the door. With a swift movie he reached out and put a hand on the brothers’ shoulders. Months and months of unnoticed, subtle programming kicked in and the pair stood there in a trance, their minds firmly switched off as the intruder revealed himself to be a more muscular but otherwise exact copy of Chris himself.
“There we are, good boys, so deep in trance, isn’t that right?”
“Yes Sir, so good, so deep.” The pair replied in unison.
“Good, now listen closely. You love me, you obey, you believe every word I say, you’re mine, got that?”
“Love… obey… believe… yours…”
“That’s right, good boys, now this next part is very important. I am Chris’ twin, I always have been, you remember me being there your whole life. I’m a professional body builder but you both are kind enough to provide me with everything I could ever need, I even live here with Chris, understand?”
“Twin… provide…”
“Good, good. Now when you come out of this trance these changes will root themselves so deep in your mind there’s no way to ever get rid of them. Now wake up.”
And with that Chris and Liam instantly returned to their new normal, laughing and joking with their new brother.
idk I’ve never seen any episode of Supernatural and I don’t know anything about the Übernatürlich stuff but I want the main characters to go to an Ostalgie Party and meet an Erich Honecker doppelganger but it’s a literal Doppelgänger as in Germanic folklore
One of the first things I noticed about Richard Armitage was his ability to change his look. My goodness at times I was asking myself if the guy who played Guy of Gisborne was the same guy who played John Standring. For the new fans, I think you are about to experience the same.
The photo above is a very different look from what we have seen recently. Could it be that Richard has so immersed…
I don’t wanna bug you guys, but for any fanfic writers/readers that follow me, could I get some words of encouragement to keep up with my stories? I feel like people don’t care to read them. Especially anyone that might have read Pain or The Unknown Doppelganger before, could you let me know what you think of them so far?
So I was going through the monster manual, trying to plan for upcoming D&D games, and as I was reading the Succubus/Incubus section something suddenly hit me… when they shape change their attributes don’t change at all. Now obviously the mental attributes would remain the same, and I’ve seen good arguments for Con being the same (just makes calculating HP easier, also there’s fun stuff like how in Palladium doppelgangers are super vulnerable to alcohol). But Strength and Dexterity is always the same? Wouldn’t… wouldn’t that make their job needlessly complicated in some situations?
As an example, the Paladin/Bard in my campaign’s adventuring party is into very strong women. He’s show interest in every barbarian and warrior woman he’s encounters (He’s especially fond of the one that put him through a table during a bar fight). Succubi and Incubi have a Strength score of 8… so even if they could look like one of these characters all he has to do is bump into them (with his strength of 20) and they’d probably collapse. Doppengangers are the same with a slightly better default strength of 11. Basically limits both when if they ever want to invade any sort of warrior culture, or powerful monster race, they are limited to taking the form of children and the elderly and sick (which raises all sorts of extra problems for the Succubi and Incubi).
In my mind if taking another form doesn’t change your stats at all that should be more of an illusion (and not a transformation). I can kinda understand this sort of thing in maybe more of a sci-fi setting (the shapeshifter has to keep to the same physical mass), but this is Fantasy and their abilities are magical. Druids don’t keep the same physical attributes when they wildshape, spellcasters don’t keep the same attributes when they polymorph… so Doppelgangers and Succubi/Incubi (and I imagine there’s others) keeping the exact same attributes feels more like… 5th edition overdoing it a little with trying to keep the rules simple.
So here’s just a small adjustment I think, to keep the shapechangers from being found out by something as simple as an arm-wrestling match. (It also gives them extra options for combat, which I think is always good for creative DMs).
Replace the original Shapechanger abilities with these:
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(Doppelganger) Shapechanger. The doppelganger can use its action to polymorph into a Small or Medium humanoid it has seen, or back into its true form. While in this form it has the natural Strength and Dexterity, size, movement speeds, and natural weapon attacks (such as claws or a bite) of the creature. Its other statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies.
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(Succubus / Incubus) Shapechanger. The fiend can use its action to polymorph into a Small or Medium humanoid, or back into its true form. While in this form it has the natural Strength and Dexterity, size, movement speeds, and natural weapon attacks of the creature. Its other statistics are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed. It reverts to its true form if it dies. If the chosen form does not already have wings, or if the chosen form’s flight speed is less than that of the fiend’s, the fiend can sprout the wings of its true form (destroying and replacing any other wings) as a bonus action and may fly with its normal flying speed.
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Obviously it’s up to DM discretion on how they want shapechangers to work, but I think the above gives a little more variety into how they can act and the ability mostly just makes them harder to figure out (combat wise it’s only a small bonus for their Challenge Rating, they now just have the option to use a form with a good strength score. Not like they get any extra attacks, just maybe some claws or a bite to use instead of a weapon).
I think we need “Greater” versions of all the the shapechangers too. Who’s going to seduce and deceive giants if you can only turn into Small or Medium humanoids? (Actually for that matter I still think it’s weird that Giant is a different creature type from Humanoid. An ogre that’s brought down a size category would still be a giant, but a human that’s brought up a size category is still a humanoid.)
ALSO! While we’re at it, up the Strength score of Succubi and Incubi to AT LEAST 10. 8 strength isn’t sexy. I don’t want to swoon and fall into the arms of some seductive Incubus only for him to fall over because he’s built like a twig. The incubus in the picture has way too many abs for a strength of 8!
