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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8956140" data-attributes="member: 6796468">The campaign is only meant to go to around level 11, so I decided to pack in some gameplay tests and went Mindhammer for archetype. As for heritage, the game is 90% 5e rather than A5e so I wound up doing a changeling that presents as human with a twist:The Esper Class -can- take Arcana (and the Psionics specialty) but doesn't do so by default. So I'm playing her as unaware of the true source of her powers. All raw emotion into power, especially fear. She was also swapped as a baby and her family never found out in the classic changeling tale of a fae child and a stolen baby. So she grew up with these strange powers and the ability to change her appearance and doesn't know -why-.She's unaware of the greater truths about herself and I'm hoping it comes out in play for some interesting reactions from both my party and my character.Her parents were likewise unaware of the greater truths... so they called in exorcists and stuff to try and "Cure" their child. Lots of trauma around that, and eventually she fled her home.So she hides herself, multiple aspects of her identity, to avoid backlash from others, essentially doing the whole Eberron "Becomer" version of a changeling. And in order to protect herself from people learning things about her she pretends to be a wizard. No Arcana skill, but a high enough intelligence to fake some finger-wiggling and higgledy piggledy magic word sounds...But not enough that the party's two artificers are going to be fooled for long. It's a race of opposed Arcana and Deception Checks 'til they learn THE TRUTH and her world crumbles...MUAHAHAHAAHAAAAAAA!For added fun: I used Midjourney AI to create my character image... and created 16 variants that are all really similar but not the same. Each week I'll use a different image in the cycle. Wonder how long it'll take people to notice she's a changeling that doesn't -quite- get it right.</blockquote>

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