I had to play my own evil doppelganger in my DM’s campaign.
My character got kidnapped and got replaced by a copy, which was there to spy on the party (the DM only gave me enough info to work with at the beginning). I was given some powers which my character didn’t have and started to abuse them. The DM specifically allowed for infinite uses of “Detect Thoughts” (lvl 2 spell, which I only had three uses at level 6), which I put to maximum use, on every NPC encounter the party had.
It seemed that none of the other players noticed, so I started putting on more chaos and evil in “chaotic evil doppelganger”. I started having them act in a more sadistic and erratic manner, but still no effect.
I started asking other players (out of the game) what if there were an impostor in the party, but not much response. The only halfway decent response I got is a “who cares, if they’re helping the party, it shouldn’t matter.” I gave up at that point. My character, and the one the doppelganger is a copy of, is the party healer.
I got used to playing him normally (me, the player handling the doppelganger as if it were the original, just with more powers, and a slight personality alteration) until the DM informed me that it’s time to pull off the reveal.
I was caught by surprise, but I knew I had to do my part.
After what was supposed to be the boss battle, the DM gave me the signal and I said “It’s been fun, guys, it really was, but unfortunately…”
The rest of the party was alarmed, and the DM had me fight the party, with monsters coming to my aid. Now, the party’s out of a healer, and had to fight a horde of monsters.
Some of the other player characters (based on their characterization) were reluctant to fight my doppleganger, but I tried my best to goad them into fighting.
My character isn’t the best fighter, but I did an effort. I knew the party’s weakest link (my original character) but also, how the glass cannons worked. So I started directing the monsters to target them first. It was a close fight, but teetering on a TPK. The DM then introduced my original character (controlled by the DM temporarily) who swopped in to save the day.
There were lots of swearing after the DM ended the session that day.
I had to play my own evil doppelganger in my DM’s campaign.
My character got kidnapped and got replaced by a copy, which was there to spy on the party (the DM only gave me enough info to work with at the beginning). I was given some powers which my character didn’t have and started to abuse them. The DM specifically allowed for infinite uses of “Detect Thoughts” (lvl 2 spell, which I only had three uses at level 6), which I put to maximum use, on every NPC encounter the party had.
It seemed that none of the other players noticed, so I started putting on more chaos and evil in “chaotic evil doppelganger”. I started having them act in a more sadistic and erratic manner, but still no effect.
I started asking other players (out of the game) what if there were an impostor in the party, but not much response. The only halfway decent response I got is a “who cares, if they’re helping the party, it shouldn’t matter.” I gave up at that point. My character, and the one the doppelganger is a copy of, is the party healer.
I got used to playing him normally (me, the player handling the doppelganger as if it were the original, just with more powers, and a slight personality alteration) until the DM informed me that it’s time to pull off the reveal.
I was caught by surprise, but I knew I had to do my part.
After what was supposed to be the boss battle, the DM gave me the signal and I said “It’s been fun, guys, it really was, but unfortunately…”
The rest of the party was alarmed, and the DM had me fight the party, with monsters coming to my aid. Now, the party’s out of a healer, and had to fight a horde of monsters.
Some of the other player characters (based on their characterization) were reluctant to fight my doppleganger, but I tried my best to goad them into fighting.
My character isn’t the best fighter, but I did an effort. I knew the party’s weakest link (my original character) but also, how the glass cannons worked. So I started directing the monsters to target them first. It was a close fight, but teetering on a TPK. The DM then introduced my original character (controlled by the DM temporarily) who swopped in to save the day.
There were lots of swearing after the DM ended the session that day.