It specifically says only surface thoughts, so no they couldn’t learn everything about a person to better be them. They’d only really hear what you are currently thinking about. Maybe if the victim was super vain and constantly thought about themselves… 🤔
That is a fair point, though. I’ve never had a Doppelganger impersonate a player’s character before, so I hadn’t thought of the impact of that wording.
I told this to my sister the other day and she had another good point in counter to mine: They may not be able to completely mimic the victim’s memories, but they could read the thoughts of the person probing them to similar effect.
It specifically says only surface thoughts, so no they couldn’t learn everything about a person to better be them. They’d only really hear what you are currently thinking about. Maybe if the victim was super vain and constantly thought about themselves… 🤔
That is a fair point, though. I’ve never had a Doppelganger impersonate a player’s character before, so I hadn’t thought of the impact of that wording.
I told this to my sister the other day and she had another good point in counter to mine: They may not be able to completely mimic the victim’s memories, but they could read the thoughts of the person probing them to similar effect.
Yeah. If you’ve ever used detect thoughts repeatedly in a campaign, you know how little information you actually get from surface thoughts.