These situations are a great opportunity to ask your party members questions that they normally refuse to tell you about.

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      Yeah, you could just ask questions that you wanted to know the answers to, then go off vibes, or you could write a list of questions that only you and the person knew the answers to, and have someone else ask them, write the answers and bring them back to you.

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      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… 🤔

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        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.

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        Yeah. If you’ve ever used detect thoughts repeatedly in a campaign, you know how little information you actually get from surface thoughts.