Category:Impersonator: Difference between revisions

An [[ooze]]-like, minimally intelligent [[shapechanger]] that can mimic living beings after tasting their [[blood]]. The touch of an impersonator in its natural form causes [[paralysis]].<ref name="RMCI&II p. 33">[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II]] p. 33</ref><ref name=DenDread>[[Denizens of Dread]] p. 119-120</ref>

Though the [[Intelligence]] (or lack there of) limits its comprehension of [[language]] to basic concepts<ref name=DenDread>[[Denizens of Dread]] p. 119-120</ref>, it shows a natural low cunning<ref name="RMCI&II p. 33">[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II]] p. 33</ref>. its tactics range from basic ambushes<ref name=DenDread>[[Denizens of Dread]] p. 119-120</ref> all the way up to infiltrating [[village]]s and assuming the guises of several [[victim]]s in quick succession to throw off monster hunters.<ref name="RMCI&II p. 33">[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II]] p. 33</ref> [[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II]] mentions an innate ability to choose forms approachable by its victims<ref name="RMCI&II p. 33">[[Ravenloft Monstrous Compendium I & II]] p. 33</ref>. However, this ability is not well defined, nor is it mentioned in [[Denizens of Darkness]] or [[Denizens of Dread]].