Selling your own face


Homebrew and House Rules


So I was looking through some old files of mine and was reminded of an interesting concept I'd developed back in 3.5 for a warlock character I never got to play.

The gist of it was that his character gained supernatural powers from an otherworldly being in exchange for his face and voice.

What this meant was that he could change shape and voice at will (represented by the minor change shape racial ability of the Eberron version of the changeling race), but could never use it to assume the shape and voice he was born with, and thus the people he set out to save (first his family, then his village, then larger areas as the campaign progressed) would never know what he had done for them and would only remember him as "that drunk who got plastered and wandered into the woods."

So, since Eberron changelings don't exist in Pathfinder and neither does the warlock class, how would I best implement this character concept in Pathfinder, rules-wise? I might use him as a PC in a campaign at some point, or use him as an NPC.


Sorcerer! The closest fit. The face thing, depending on your DM, you could simply have as a special ability.


A Beastmorph Alchemists loses his appearance every time he takes his mutagen - work towards the Master Chymist PrC and you'd even lose your whole personality while using the chemicals you need to save your people.

It's not particularly "otherworldly" though.

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