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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 5099689" data-attributes="member: 710">Didn't Mark have a Shapeshifter thread on a few days ago? I think deliberately (from a DM point of view) creating inconsistencies is a good way. For example, the shapeshifter might assume the role of someone else. But he has actually incomplete information about this one. For example, the person might have an "alibi" for something the shapeshifter did in his shape. Even if the alibi is only weak, like "I was with my girlfriend at the time", it can help. Maybe someone the shapeshifter had imprisoned escapes. Or the shapeshifter performed some action after the original person must have been dead. A shapeshifter might also have given the PCs (or one of their allies) false information, either due to not knowing or because he deliberately mislead them. If the supposed source of information can convince the PC that they couldn't have gotten the information from him, the PCs know something is amiss. If he can't convince them, they might choose to follow him, and depending on the shapeshifters knowledge of their plans, he might accidentally reveal himself. The important thing is probably to not play the BBEG as all-knowing in this case. Sometimes it might even be that he could have had the information he needed to avoid detection - but he was too arrogant to consider it relevantIf he is infallible and all-knowing, the only hope for the PCs would be a lucky die roll to beat his Bluff/Deception/Disguise check. It's more fun if they actually connect the dots and this leads to a discovery. (Even if they have the wrong suspicions. For example, they might think the informant gave them wrong information because he is in league with someone else. Following him in hiding they might spot the shapeshifter, or they hear of a sighting of their informant in a place where they knew he was not at that time.)That's at least basically what I am trying to do in my own campaign. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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