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<blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 8637679" data-attributes="member: 7635"><p>My last Ravenloft game took place in Dementileu (the new VRGR one) where a new socialite was making the rounds. She was a poor girl who was given an evil artifact mask that turned her into a doppelganger (a dread doppelganger from Minsc's and Boo's Guide, to be exact). The mask also protected her with a Mind Blank spell, so no divinations or mind reading possible. She would kill anyone who snooped into her past to keep her secret, including her own parents. </p><p></p><p>The group eventually gathered enough info to go to her parent's house, where she set it up like a "haunted" house with a few traps and used her amazing stealth and a few spell-like abilities (phantasmal killer primarily) to sow confusion in the group. The cleric, hit by the effect of PK, ran out of the house with 4 hp left and the doppelganger took him down in one blow. She then assumed the role of the cleric. She also targeted the artificer PC whose player is always paranoid with a PK, so when he started accusing the cleric of acting weird, nobody believed him because he too had just been acting weird. </p><p></p><p>At this point, I had given the cleric a few quick instructions: he was unconscious, the villain had replaced him, and his primary goal was to convince them to leave as this was a dead end. The player did a good job of that, even if the other players weren't exactly buying the "let's look elsewhere" line. Eventually, the group did the unsensible thing of splitting up (it was a small home, so part of the group went upstairs while the "cleric" and the wizard stayed on the first floor to watch for ambushes. The upstairs team found the corpses of the parents, who had become home to a colony of rot grubs. As soon as combat broke out, the doppelganger makes her move and downed the wizard in one hit (sneak attack/ambush). She then went upstairs and downed the artificer who wasn't fully healed yet (the PCs were 3rd level). The remaining PCs (a sorcerer, bloodhunter, and bard) did their best to bring up the wizard and artificer while fighting the "cleric" who used mirror image to avoid several attacks. Eventually cornered, she used her final SLA (mislead) to plead for her life while trying to invisibly escape. The artificer was angry and not buying it put a bullet in the image, and the group quickly found the escaping doppelganger and ended her. </p><p></p><p>Outside, they found their cleric alive but out cold and tied up. They also recovered the mask but decided not to put it on in case it (corretly) would turn them into a monster like her. </p><p></p><p>But up to the point she was nearly dead and pleading, the PCs had no idea who they were facing, and the cleric PC did an excellent job of keeping up the ruse until she attacked. Even then, the idea he possessed or similar was the running theory. One of them afterwards commented that it was the scariest doppelganger encounter they had faced.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Remathilis, post: 8637679, member: 7635"] My last Ravenloft game took place in Dementileu (the new VRGR one) where a new socialite was making the rounds. She was a poor girl who was given an evil artifact mask that turned her into a doppelganger (a dread doppelganger from Minsc's and Boo's Guide, to be exact). The mask also protected her with a Mind Blank spell, so no divinations or mind reading possible. She would kill anyone who snooped into her past to keep her secret, including her own parents. The group eventually gathered enough info to go to her parent's house, where she set it up like a "haunted" house with a few traps and used her amazing stealth and a few spell-like abilities (phantasmal killer primarily) to sow confusion in the group. The cleric, hit by the effect of PK, ran out of the house with 4 hp left and the doppelganger took him down in one blow. She then assumed the role of the cleric. She also targeted the artificer PC whose player is always paranoid with a PK, so when he started accusing the cleric of acting weird, nobody believed him because he too had just been acting weird. At this point, I had given the cleric a few quick instructions: he was unconscious, the villain had replaced him, and his primary goal was to convince them to leave as this was a dead end. The player did a good job of that, even if the other players weren't exactly buying the "let's look elsewhere" line. Eventually, the group did the unsensible thing of splitting up (it was a small home, so part of the group went upstairs while the "cleric" and the wizard stayed on the first floor to watch for ambushes. The upstairs team found the corpses of the parents, who had become home to a colony of rot grubs. As soon as combat broke out, the doppelganger makes her move and downed the wizard in one hit (sneak attack/ambush). She then went upstairs and downed the artificer who wasn't fully healed yet (the PCs were 3rd level). The remaining PCs (a sorcerer, bloodhunter, and bard) did their best to bring up the wizard and artificer while fighting the "cleric" who used mirror image to avoid several attacks. Eventually cornered, she used her final SLA (mislead) to plead for her life while trying to invisibly escape. The artificer was angry and not buying it put a bullet in the image, and the group quickly found the escaping doppelganger and ended her. Outside, they found their cleric alive but out cold and tied up. They also recovered the mask but decided not to put it on in case it (corretly) would turn them into a monster like her. But up to the point she was nearly dead and pleading, the PCs had no idea who they were facing, and the cleric PC did an excellent job of keeping up the ruse until she attacked. Even then, the idea he possessed or similar was the running theory. One of them afterwards commented that it was the scariest doppelganger encounter they had faced. [/QUOTE]
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