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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reveal" data-source="post: 2336815" data-attributes="member: 1236">Recently, a player has expressed interest in playing a different character. He's level 12 and has said that he has "done everything he can do" with his current PC. Since the party is in down time, I told him it would be the perfect time to do it. But here's my conundrum; he wants to play a Changeling. For those of you unfamiliar with Changelings, they're basically watered-down Dopplegangers who have an ability to change their appearance as though they used disguise self. It only affects their bodies and not their possessions.The problem is the characters have two different groups who want to kill them. One is run by a Changeling who has, in the past, changed himself to look like one of their closest friends and then tried to kill them. This group also hired a troupe of assassins to kill the party. The assassins failed and the PCs saw that one of the assassins was a Doppleganger when they, the party, killed him.The other group hired a Doppleganger to pretend to be the party cleric's long dead husband. He walked through the town square, making sure the cleric could see him, and led her to an ambush which almost killed her and the party wizard.So, knowing the parties experience with shapechangers, I need advice on bringing in this new Changeling so that party will trust him. I know I could just say "Here's the new PC" and everyone would trust him, but the party likes to RP and wouldn't enjoy it as much as they would RPing something to have him gain their trust.Two ideas I've come up with so far:1) The parties sponsor in House Cannith could send the Changeling to help them. The party might trust him since he is trusted by House Cannith. The party will be asked by their sponsor to visit Istivin (see Dungeon #117) so this would be a logical way to fit him in.2) Have the party ambushed (which is a plan anyway because of, well, see above <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=":)" />) and have the Changeling wade in to help them.Does anyone else have any suggestions? I would really appreciate them. <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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