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You wouldn't lose banish by soaking your stealth into melee and keeping your psionics, hell the psionics would be a great addition to your melee skills.

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Originally Posted by The Racial Information

Doppleganger
Home: Unknown
Description: A doppleganger is a creature of unknown origin. Some hypothesize that they were created by evil magi long ago, but no one is certain that is the truth. Whatever the truth is, dopplegangers are feared, respected, and mistrusted by all races. Humans have a great disdain for them, and would enslave them, were it possible to enslave a creature that can take on any form at will. They generally find work as assassins or thieves, using their ability to change form to it's greatest, although some also become fearsome warriors, taking the shape of other more savage creatures for this purpose.

Stat Potential
Str: Low
Agi: Low
Dex: Low
Con: Low
Int: Low
Wis: Low
Wil: Low
Per: Low
Cha: Craptacular
Size: 6'
Weight: 125

Maximum Age: Ageless
Dietary Requirements: Needs no food.
Number of limbs: Variable
Natural Armor: Variable
Natural Weapons: Variable
Poison Spread Rate: Average
Vision: All light conditions

Advantages: Can shape shift, and can use metabolic psionics freely when in their natural state (but not while transformed.)
Disadvantages: Many Variables
Miscellaneous: May change into any race or anyone it knows, with that race's base stats at a slight loss to all of them.
natural terrain: None
Resistances and Vulnerabilities: Vulnerable to true sight or other such effects, for it reveals them as dopplegangers
Immune to: None
Disease Susceptibility: 100% physical/mental/magical

Damage Regeneration: Below Average
Mana Regeneration: Below Average
Endurance Regeneration: Below Average
Psionic Regeneration: Excellent

I'd like Demetrius's version of the racial abilities, because krylo's seems to have a glaring omission of such memory-taking abilities.

What confuses me is... would they have all psi abilities or only the few people choose? I want to hear it from the GM... this is getting more confusing each post.

Here is what I say.

Fuck Dopples.

Edit - Also, Banishment would only get rid of bodies/people for X amount of time (Depends on how good at Banishing one is). Living things break out faster. We can't have insta-kill after all.

No mind sucking, and IHMN is right about banishment, and the metasciences being not really psionic but just natural abilities to a doppleganger in their natural form.

Here's what I would do for your character, to play it the way you seem to want to (fighting and sneaking), RMB--

Melee: V
Ranged: I
Magic: I
Psionics: VI
Stealth: III
Connections: I

Powers

Psychometabolism (a few powers to use outside of your natural form)
Body Weaponry-III
Psychoportation
Dimension Walk-II

In your natural form you have access to all the psychometabolic abilities... so you can go natural form and use healing/cell adjustment/absorb disease/etc. to heal. Outside of that form you have access to only the abilities you bought with points, psychometabolic or otherwise.

You can fight decently.

You have the ability to turn your limbs (even while copying someone else's body) into a range of bladed and dull weapons.

And you can sneak decently.

As you were before, you really couldn't fight, couldn't sneak very well, and couldn't do... well, anything, really. All your psionics were things that would have required physical abilities in order to do much with them. Now you can use your psionic abilities to pretty good effect.

That's just a suggestion, though, and the final decision is yours.

Guess I'll go with it then. You have a better idea of this then I do. Might make for something more interesting.

EDIT- Though with 2 in DW, how far could I potentially go?

EDIT2- Did I make that fight too long drawn out? If so I can edit it and I do have a shorter alternate.

To give the cliff notes version, Gem just impersonated an act of god. Presumably the act of a vengeful god.

Of course, the giant terrifying figure is really just glamour. The wings are Gem's though... kind of. There's a lot of glamour exaggeration going on there too.

It's a cherubim by the way.

I do have to wonder what seeing this will do to the paladin.

Hash sees Misere as the embodiment of all things no good and continues his rampage through the endless sea of baddies and beasties.

Feel free to throw something in his face please.

You all have three to four hours. Then things change. I suggest you finish up what you're doing.

Unless I end up being too tired by then, in which case you have until tomorrow around 10:30 central time.

SKitter is avoiding melee as much as he can, going for disabling shots and hoping that the shamans he drugged do some damage to the orc hordes firing off before they get taken down.