““It says human when you look at me because that’s what I’m trying to emulate. Before Mordecai helped me with my ears, it said my race was ‘What the f-word?’ so we are making progress.” Katia [1]
Doppelgänger is a race a crawler can choose upon entry to the Third Floor. It is a race of shape shifters, similar to Changelings, but they can shape their body mass into any shape or race. They do not gain the properties of the new race, but can retain the properties of whatever their body mass is made of. [2]
Appearance
Doppelgänger can change their form at will, but the overall appearance of the individual is up to their own skill. The description of who they are given by the System AI is directly related to how good they form their intended shape.
Description
Mordecai describes the limitations of the race: “If she’s 90% flesh and 10% metal, she can make herself to look like a regular, unarmored human, but what you perceive as her bikini, or her feet, or her hands, can really be the material from the helmet. As long as it’s 10%, and it’s continuous. You can’t break up the item. Also, there’s some elasticity issues with certain enchanted materials, plus certain limits still exist, like she’s not allowed to grow four arms so she can wear forty rings, but you get the idea.” [3]
Doppelgängers can only add the mass of anything that is equipped. If an item is shaped like armor but the system does not recognize it as armor, it does not count as equipment that can be added as mass. [4]
It hurts to change their shape. [2]
Story
Book 2
Katia Grim chooses this as her race on the Third Floor. She isn't very good at the skill at first, with Mordecai giving her tips to practice with since he was a similar Changeling shapeshifter when he was a crawler. [2]
Book 3
“Just be yourself,” I said.
“That’s terrible advice, Carl,” Donut said. “She’s a doppelganger. It’s her job to be someone else.” [5]
References
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Chapter 19)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Dinniman, Matt. Carl's Doomsday Scenario (Chapter 21)
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 1)
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 12)
- ↑ Dinniman, Matt. The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook (Chapter 6)