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[-] The_Cleanup_Batter@ttrpg.network 54 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

A changeling might use a different name for each mask and persona and adopt new names as easily as they change faces. The true name of a changeling tends to be simple and monosyllabic; however, there are often accents to a changeling's name that are expressed through shapeshifting, something single-skins will likely miss. So, two changelings might have the name Jin, but one is Jin-with-vivid-blue-eyes and one is Jin-with-golden-nails.

I'm more concerned about why your changeling father is trying to conceal the fact that he is your father from you. It's not like changelings pick a shape and then stick to it forever. He could literally just flick his blue eyes or golden nails or whatever and you would know that it's your dad.

Edit: Wait is this a meta meme about some dude banging his dad?

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 9 points 11 months ago

You would know because you communicate with other changelings through the bond. They know everything about each other.

[-] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 11 months ago

Finally a proper use of this meme

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 14 points 11 months ago

Why do shapeshifters need a family?

They could do a mitosis.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 months ago

Can they recognize their mitosis sister?

If not, the worst case scenario would be an entire city taken over, Invasion of the Body Snatchers style, but every shape shifter thinks the rest of the city is normal people.

[-] Makeitstop@lemmy.world 42 points 11 months ago

Wait, I've seen this one before.

[-] SheDiceToday@eslemmy.es 8 points 11 months ago

Lol, that was my first thought when I saw the OP. Oglaf is great.

[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

And here I was thinking I had an original thought... /s

Is that Oglaf? It looks like Oglaf...

[-] squaresinger@feddit.de 11 points 11 months ago

It's Oedipus with a single parent playing both roles.

[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Its just smells

[-] s12@sopuli.xyz 6 points 11 months ago

According to Pathfinder lore for changelings, it is unlikely that your dad would have also been a changeling (but I guess it could work).

Also, it would be just a difficult to tell as any other being that gained a transformation spell/ability. Being a changeling doesn’t necessarily give any kind of transformation ability.

[-] stankmut@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Pathfinder changelings are very different from D&D changelings which is what the meme is referencing. D&D changelings are a race of shapeshifters from the Eberron setting. Pathfinder changelings are the children of hags and are overall closer to the actual folklore of a changeling.

[-] Amaltheamannen@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago
[-] Zehzin@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)
[-] Senex@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago
[-] Lag_Incarnate@ttrpg.network 3 points 11 months ago

This is why I like the idea of monster languages. All the changelings can speak changeling, which while it isn't used for full conversations, they might go "y'know, the... er-uh, boss?" and it's slipping in a codeword like "trust?"

[-] Tarkcanis@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago
[-] Archpawn@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

D&D doesn't have incest rules, so it doesn't matter.

this post was submitted on 17 Nov 2023
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