ファンタジー界で最も社交性に欠けるコスプレイヤー、チェンジリング
What fantasy race has the ability to become literally anyone, but still somehow never manages to fit in for long? The answer is changelings. Every fantasy book says that changelings are masters of disguise, but every changeling that I’ve met seems to not realize that a good disguise blends in with the situation required instead of simply being the most grandiose persona you can come up with. If you want to be a master of distraction, that’s fine. But that just means that you’re good at being loud and flashy in various cosplays. A successful changeling has to be able to collect intel ahead of time and practice a few voices to really sell their new persona. Sure, the town guard may let you enter the Baron’s keep as a random noble because your disguise is convincing and your paperwork is in order. But if you leave moments later disguises the baron carrying everything valuable from his keep, trust me, they know what the baron yelling at them sounds like. So you’re going to have to be accurate. Changelings seem to think that they can’t have any core personality traits because they swap everything about themselves at a moment’s notice. Sometimes it’s played for sympathy, such as, “I’ve never truly figured out who I am or what’s my purpose.” But the truth is probably that they are just afraid of direct confrontation. That’s like when you get asked, “What kind of music do you listen to?” And you respond with, “I listen to a little bit of everything.” Have a little confidence, buddy. Just because a changeling can have vastly different personas doesn’t mean that you can’t find your own voice first. If you want to make it in the changeling disguise biz, you need to find your niche, own it, and then eventually slowly move out to other types of personas. A changeling that has decided that their whole gimmick is just that they use disguise self to always fit in is not really much of a character at all. The party wants a teammate, not a yapping wand of a first level spell. Whenever a changeling is at the table, the dungeon master is guaranteed to constantly be on edge. When a new NPC is introduced, there’s a chance that the changeling will instantly want to copy their appearance. If there’s a new faction that you mention offhand, they’ll quickly craft the perfect persona to join as a new recruit. When you have a race that is perfectly adaptable and able to enhance charisma based character builds, it almost feels like there’s two dungeon masters at the table throwing new NPCs at each other. The rest of the party better be good at taking notes because there will be a lot of names thrown around. Have you ever had a changeling that wants to disguise himself as the king, walk up to the king, and then pass them? That is only a fraction of the chaos that a motivated changeling player can inflict upon a campaign. We’re all lucky that changelings tend not to hang out in packs because it would only take like a dozen of them working together to completely collapse your local empire’s entire chain of command. Hold on, I got to write down something for my campaign. You ever wonder what a changeling village would look like? Yeah, we all do. While elves will hide their societies with magic and trees, and dwarves will dig halfway into a mountain so you don’t knock on their front door, changelings stay hidden by never being where you last left them. You’ll never find a changeling city because every changeling has relocated three times and legally changed their name twice this month alone. And if you do find one, it’s actually just one guy running an entire city with their various personas. Changeling society is basically just a loosely tied network of people who will lie about each other’s resumes to help them get a job. We both know that it’s probably your buddy from college saying that you were director of operations at your last gig, but we can’t prove you guys are lying yet. Changeling names are interesting because they tend to be only one or two syllables at most. If you’ve ever tried to reserve a username for an online game that has been out for a while, you know just how hard it is to get a unique name with so few characters. That means you’ll find a whole lot of changeling slapping X’s, Y’s, and Z’s in their name to try and come up with something that is still available. Instead of doing that, I found that the most effective way to name a changeling is to imagine what sound they might make while frightened and then treat them like some kind of perpetually startled Pokémon. I’d like to introduce you guys to your new party member, Mim the Meek. You decided to become a rogue because when you’re the one being stealthy, it means people are less likely to sneak up on you. Somehow, Mim still manages to get jump scared at least once a session, but at least the noise they make sounds cute. If you want to give your party some trust issues, kill one of their favorite NPCs and then reveal that the corpse transformed into a changeling. After a long awkward silence, you’ll likely see the whole party draw their weapons. Even if the changeling wasn’t up to anything sinister, and just like being a good friend to the party in this new persona, the party will start questioning everything, they will start accusing each other of secretly being a changeling. And if the party has been playing together for a while, I can almost guarantee that someone will be exactly that. I love when someone decides to play a changeling that is hiding that fact from the party because they always act like it’s the first time anyone has thought of it. Usually the player character will show up as another exotic race like a Teling or a Taci and start immediately hinting that they have a secret. I get that you’re super excited about your character concept, but I can guarantee you that the rest of the party is just wondering how long they have to make their characters play stupid about the fact that your character is obviously leaving every 10 minutes to actually make use of your other personas. Hey Zil, I’m Parch. Can I get an L and let you handle this last section for me? Yeah, sure. Sometimes a changeling doesn’t just pretend to be someone for a short period of time to help the party achieve their quest. On occasion, they get tired of wandering aimlessly with a bunch of brain deadad adventurers and see a person living their best life with a successful business. You see how that small town treats a simple tavern keep with so much love and acceptance and can’t help but to feel a bit envious. One day, you notice that he isn’t feeling well and closes shop early to go to bed, and you just kind of copy his appearance and finish a shift. Everyone is happy to see that you’re suddenly feeling better and you spend all night chatting with the local towns folk. Just some harmless roleplay as the party does whatever it is they do during downtime. Then you think to yourself that maybe if the tavern keeps stayed sick a few more times that you could keep up this little facade for a day or two more. A little food poisoning never hurts anyone too badly and the party can probably manage just fine without you for a few days, right? Suddenly, weeks go by and you’re telling your party from behind the bar that you haven’t seen a changeling stroll into town since they first arrived. You make sure to tell them about a strange abandoned crypt on the other side of town. And you say you heard a rumor that a lot of people go missing when they try to visit it at night. Anything to get them to leave and not look around the place for more clues about where you might have gone. I mean, at this point, you might as well be a doppelganger. And if the party were to do some digging, they might go in the cellar and it would break the town’s heart to find out what happened to the real tab. Hey, Loot, what the hell is this script? Oh, I just thought it’d be fun for you to read about a changeling that likes playing pretend. You like playing pretend, right, Zil? Get the hell out of my tavern. Your tavern. So, yeah, changelings, because underneath the personas is just someone looking to be accepted. Sure, the constant lying and occasional identity theft probably ends up hurting more often than it helps. But what’s the point of being a shape shifter if you aren’t constantly flexing that ability? It’s like asking an aoker to not fly because using it in every situation might piss off your DM. Or choosing to not remind your DM that you have dark vision every time you enter a dungeon so you don’t piss them off. You and I both know that every time a racial feature can be spammed, it will be spammed. I’d like to think that when times get tough for the adventuring party, a changeling will decide that this is the first time they won’t skip town. They can always reroll their name and face, but the party that they’ve come to trust will get left behind, too, which is something that they’ve been searching for all these years. Sure, the changing might flee the initial mess that they caused, but they’ll end up returning later disguised as one of the guards coming to arrest the party. That way, later that night, when things die down, they can slip you guys a key to unlock the jail cell door. Would it have been better to just not cause a mess? Probably. But then you wouldn’t have gotten to try out two or three fun new personalities. You have to remember that changelings aren’t actually consistently good at social encounters. They just have the ability to mulligan a bunch of first impressions until they get a favorable outcome. That is why changelings are fantasy’s most socially awkward cosplayers. If you like the video, make sure to check out my other releases on the channel and uh subscribe. And if you want to support the channel, you can get 10% off when you use code lootgoblin at gamersups.gg. GG. Be sure to try out their AFK sleep supplements. My favorite is Banana Berry Bedtime. It’s perfect for any changelings who are having a hard time going to bed knowing they have their friend locked up in the cellar. You can get a ton of delicious flavors with or without melatonin. So, there’s something for everyone, even you, Zil. Anything you want. Use the link in the description below. And if you can, please get me out of here. See you next time, if there is a next time.
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