Material Doppelganger

Basic Information

Anatomy

In their natural form, doppelgangers are gaunt, gray-skinned, genderless humanoids with long gangly limbs. Doppelganger bodies are slender and frail-looking, although this appearance belies their hardy constitution and natural agility. Their heads are large in proportion to the rest of their bodies, and their faces are featureless except for two large, octopoidlike eyes.
Doppelgangers are rarely seen in their true form, and spend most of their time mimicking other humanoids. A doppelganger can only duplicate the appearance of a humanoid and does not gain any special abilities of a mimicked race, such as an elf’s low-light vision. Its ability to duplicate another form is remarkable, and it can copy a humanoid form to the minutest detail. Doppelgangers have an incredible memory when it comes to retaining forms, and a doppelganger can remember any shape it has mimicked, even if it was years in the past.

Genetics and Reproduction

They reproduce by posing as a male of another race in order to impregnate a female. Impregnating a fey (usually an eladrin) produces a fey doppelganger. Impregnating a monstrosity (including a dual-typed monstrosity/humanoid) produces a material doppelganger, and impregnating a humanoid produces a Changeling.

Genetic Ancestor(s)

• Fey Doppelganger

Genetic Descendants

• Changeling
• Fey Doppelganger