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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EP" data-source="post: 2946474" data-attributes="member: 41744">Don't forget the detect thoughts ability - it can be used at will as a free action and you can come up with some tricky ways to get into an opponent's head and play tricks with them pretty fast, I'd wager...1.  Walk into a room and switch on detect thoughts.  If someone within your range is there and has an INT score, you'll know about it.2.  Check with your DM on his/her interpretation of "surface thoughts."  If you can get that to mean you can sense their intentions just before they're about to perform them, you might be able to get an initiiative bonus or gain the Improved Initiative feat as a bonus feat when using your detect thoughts ability.  You could also gain a bonus to Sense Motive or Bluff, which comes in handy to feint an opponent.3.  Using detect thoughts to pick up an image of a person very important to your opponent and shapechange into them.  That should freak them out and give them a penalty to attack you, especially if you shapechange into someone dead.4.  Detect thoughts can act as a type of blindsight but better - you can detect intelligent creatures through stone or metal walls.  Once again, very handy.The detect thoughts spell (and hence, the supernatural ability of a doppleganger) leaves plenty of room for interpretation.  Take advantage of it and use that if the shapechanging comes up weak for you.</blockquote>