*Aarakocra are weird on this front. The art and descriptions up to 3rd edition gave them wing-arms, but as of 5e, the art depicts aarakocra as having both arms and wings as separate limbs, presumably to simplify running them as monsters without wondering whether or how they can draw an...
Changelings (from the original version of Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron, as they appear in UA: Eberron Races), which are similar to doppelgangers, are able to change appearance, but don't seem to be explicitly shapechangers. Are UA changelings actual shapechangers and therefore immune to Pol...
In the past I never had an opportunity or reason to develop changelings further.Races of Eberronis the canon resource on changelings and it didn’t come up in other projects, until I wrote the article on Lost forDungeon. However, when 5E started up a friend of mine launched an Eberron ...
We know changelings believe they’re a kind of insane changeling, but how true is that if doppelgangers seem to come from Khyber? Under 5E lore, doppelgangers are changelings twisted by the daelkyr Dyrrn the Corruptor. A general belief is that this change is actually primarily psychological. ...
Additionally, using the fact that 5e is rules all the way down, we should look at the description of the changeling race and the examples given of their abilities there. I'll be using this for some of my analysis but it's worthwhile putting it front and centre. There are a few importa...
Also consider they basically get nothing else, they don't even get darkvision which is really common in 5e. Keep in mind the downsides of this ability, building trust will be very hard is you are constantly changing appearance, it will also create a lot of inconveniences. "But...