Doppelganger
@ doppelganger | |
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Difficulty | 11 |
Attacks |
Physical 1d12 |
Base level | 9 |
Base experience | 194 |
Speed | 12 |
Base AC | 5 |
Base MR | 20 |
Alignment | 0 (neutral) |
Frequency (by normal means) | Very rare |
Genocidable | Yes |
Weight | 1450 |
Nutritional value | 400 |
Size | Human |
Resistances | Sleep |
Resistances conveyed |
None
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The doppelganger is a shapeshifter. They will imitate player monsters and occasionally nasties. Each turn they have a one-sixth chance of attempting to change form; one-seventh of these attempts will turn them into a nasty and two-thirds of the rest will change them into a random player monster.
Doppelgangers that are imitating player monsters will take the rank titles for that role, based upon its level - a doppelganger imitating a fourth-tier Healer appears as a "Dresser", one imitating an equivalent Wizard appears as a "Magician".
Doppelgangers are considered human for sacrifice and cannibalism purposes. Eating a doppelganger corpse will cause you to polymorph.
SLASH'EM
In SLASH'EM, doppelgangers are a playable race, with high stats, natural protection, and, as one might expect, the ability to polymorph at will, via the "#youpoly" extended command.
Encyclopedia
"Then we can only give thanks that this is Antarctica, where there is not one, single, solitary, living thing for it to imitate, except these animals in camp." "Us," Blair giggled. "It can imitate us. Dogs can't make four hundred miles to the sea; there's no food. There aren't any skua gulls to imitate at this season. There aren't any penguins this far inland. There's nothing that can reach the sea from this point - except us. We've got brains. We can do it. Don't you see - it's got to imitate us - it's got to be one of us - that's the only way it can fly an airplane - fly a plane for two hours, and rule - be - all Earth's inhabitants. A world for the taking - if it imitates us! [ Who Goes There?, by John W. Campbell ] Xander: Let go! I have to kill the demon bot! Xander Double (grabbing the gun): Anya, get out of the way. Buffy: Xander! Xander Double: That's all right, Buffy. I have him. Xander: No, Buffy, I'm me. Help me! Anya: My gun, he's got my gun. Riley: You own a gun? Buffy: Xander, gun holding Xander, give it to me. Anya: Buffy, which one's real? Xander: I am. Xander Double: No, _I_ am. [ Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Episode 5.03, "The Replacement" ]
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