Doppelganger

Monstrosity · Medium

Doppelganger
Two lovers meeting their own doubles in a wood, by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1864 · Dante Gabriel Rossetti, How They Met Themselves, 1864, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons

A doppelganger takes the face of anyone it meets and reads surface thoughts, living among townsfolk by stealing the places of the people it kills. Rumours of a friend who suddenly forgets old jokes are how most hunts begin.

Danger
A fight to fear
How it is met
Alone, day and night
Challenge
3
SRD 5.2.1 stat blocks
Doppelganger

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Where it is met

Also: City, Town, Tavern

Gives

Doppelganger Brain

Stat blocks (D&D 5e)

Doppelganger

Medium Monstrosity, Neutral

AC 14 · Initiative +4 (14)

HP 52 (8d8 + 16)

Speed 30 ft.

StrDexConIntWisCha
11 (+0), save +018 (+4), save +414 (+2), save +211 (+0), save +012 (+1), save +114 (+2), save +2

Skills Deception +6, Insight +3

Immunities Charmed

Senses Darkvision 60 ft.; Passive Perception 11

Languages Common plus three other languages

CR 3 (XP 700; PB +2)

Actions

Multiattack. The doppelganger makes two Slam attacks and uses Unsettling Visage if available.

Slam. Melee Attack Roll: +6 (with Advantage during the first round of each combat), reach 5 ft. Hit: 11 (2d6 + 4) Bludgeoning damage.

Read Thoughts. The doppelganger casts Detect Thoughts, requiring no spell components and using Charisma as the spellcasting ability (spell save DC 12).

Unsettling Visage (Recharge 6). Wisdom Saving Throw: DC 12, each creature in a 15-foot Emanation originating from the doppelganger that can see the doppelganger. Failure: The target has the Frightened condition and repeats the save at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. After 1 minute, it succeeds automatically.

Bonus Actions

Shape-Shift. The doppelganger shape-shifts into a Medium or Small Humanoid, or it returns to its true form. Its game statistics, other than its size, are the same in each form. Any equipment it is wearing or carrying isn’t transformed.

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