Hello,
I have a question about the Non-Human Changeling option from the Blood of the Coven Player Companion.
Ruletext from Blood of the Coven:
"NON-HUMAN CHANGELINGS
Representative of primal and wild forces, hags are
supernaturally fertile and capable of bearing the children
of almost any humanoid or monstrous humanoid, although
they usually select human mates. Their offspring—
changelings—are always tainted by the hag mothers’ arcane
power and wickedness. While they share their non-hag
parents’ appearance and size-related traits, they otherwise
use the changeling racial traits. A changeling centaur,
for example, would look like a centaur woman, gaining
Large size and the Undersized Weapons special ability, but
otherwise uses changeling racial abilities."Do I understand this correctly and it is a pure optical change and all Racial Traits are overwritten by the Changeling or would an Elf Changeling e. g. keep its Elf Imunity?
RAW, I'd say the former but I'm not sure.
What do you say?
The description already states "While they share their non-hag parents’ appearance and size-related traits, they otherwise
use the changeling racial traits".Meaning, like you said yourself: "it is pure optical change and all racial traits are overwritten by the Changeling". This means, every changeling has the same racial traits, expect for size-related traits. The Elf-changeling and the Centaur-changeling haec the same racial traits, except that the centaur-changeling is large (and the corrosponding Undersized weapen special ability). So the Elf-changeling would have non of its elven racial traits, only the height of an Elf.
I agree with Dany. One thing to keep in mind is that the changeling is not a member of his father’s race. They are half breeds. It also looks like the Hag’s DNA is dominant and overshadows the fathers.