Eberron Changelings

[RigaMortus2]

Are there any feats/PrCs out there that increase the power of a Changelings Disguise ability in any way? One of the weaknesses of the ability is that when you change apearance, your clothes don't change with you. Wonder if there was something out there that increases the ability a bit. Maybe make it more like Alter Self...

 

[pawsplay]

Does that even make sense? They mold their bodies. How would you transform your clothing? At best, you could fake clothing, like a doppelganger.

 

[Vurt]

If you have a copy of Races of Eberron, check out the magic items section. There's something called a Robe of Professions which lets you change your clothes to something more appropriate to your disguise (and gives you a +5 bonus to Disguise to boot), as well as a less powerful item called the Vestment of Many Styles.

Cheers,
Vurt

 

[Kurotowa]

The there's also Shiftweave clothes from the Sharn book, which can switch between five different preset outfits. Generally magic clothes will be the only solution to that problem.

More generally, Races of Eberron has the Cabinet Trickster PrC for changelings that enhances their natural talents. They get Detect Thoughts, some other mind powers, and finally their Minor Change Shape gets replaced by the full doppleganger Change Shape.

 

[Nifft]

Hat of Disguise is a cheap fix. For extra benefit, always wear a disguise that matches your face but changes your clothing. When you need to hide, drop the disguised clothing and change your face.

People who saw you before would notice that you were trying to spiff up your outfit (only) using magic.

People who saw you later wouldn't see any magic going on.

-- N

 

[Shayuri]

That said, there are some Changeling feats in Races of Eberron that beef up the shapechange power. There's one that makes it a move action to change, for example. And another that makes you take on the racial subtype of the form you're imitating...so if you become an elf, you take on the (Elf) subtype. Good for items and effects keyed to a particular race. And another one lets you control your thoughts to seem mentally like the form in question too.

Of those, the speedy change feat is probably the most generically useful, unless you know for sure that there will be situations where your mind is being read, or a particular humanoid subtype will be useful.

 

[starwed]

One of the weaknesses of the ability is that when you change apearance, your clothes don't change with you.

As odd as it sounds, changelings can alter their clothing using their ability, because it duplicates the effects of disguise self:

You make yourself—including clothing, armor, weapons, and equipment—look different.

There might be something in races of ebberon, but when I played a changeling the DM and I searched pretty hard for mention of this matter in the Eberron book. Since we couldn't find anything disallowing the changeling to alter the appearance of their clothing, we thought it best to not nerf the ability as written. (And the idea of wearing clothing that's just a thin layer of your body is kind of neat anyway.)

 

[irdeggman]

As odd as it sounds, changelings can alter their clothing using their ability, because it duplicates the effects of disguise self:

There might be something in races of ebberon, but when I played a changeling the DM and I searched pretty hard for mention of this matter in the Eberron book. Since we couldn't find anything disallowing the changeling to alter the appearance of their clothing, we thought it best to not nerf the ability as written. (And the idea of wearing clothing that's just a thin layer of your body is kind of neat anyway.)

Except for the text in the ECS book itself that states it affects their bodies but not their possesions

 

[Unkabear]

The cost of the Vestment of many styles is only 500 gold and the robe of profession 5000, modest for the total quickchange artist. Think of it as an investment. Better used than armor in many cases. As for the changling disguise

Minor Change Shape (su): Changlings have the supernatural ability to alter thier apearance as though using the disguise self spell that affects thier bodies but not thier possessions.

Eberron Campain Setting pg 13 Races of Eberron pg 41

 

[RigaMortus2]

Does that even make sense? They mold their bodies. How would you transform your clothing? At best, you could fake clothing, like a doppelganger.

It doesn't have to make sense. It's magic.