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Doomboy911
2018-02-10, 01:57 AM
Mantle of Whispers
At 6th level, you gain the ability to adopt a
creature’s persona. When you slay a creature
with an attack or a spell or a creature dies within
5 feet of you, you can magically capture its
shadow using your reaction. You can capture
only the shadow of a creature that is your
creature type, such as humanoid, and your size
(you can capture a Small or Medium shadow if
you’re Small), and you can have only one shadow
captured at a time.
After you capture a creature’s shadow, you can
use your magic to weave it into a disguise that
allows you to take on its appearance and gain
access to its surface memories. As an action, you
take on the creature’s appearance for 1 hour or
until you end this effect as a bonus action.
During that hour, you gain access to all
information that the creature would freely share
with a casual acquaintance. Information includes
general details on its background and personal
life, but does not include secrets. The
information is enough that you can pass yourself
off as the creature by drawing on its memories.
Another creature can see through this disguise
by making a Wisdom (Insight) check opposed by
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your Charisma (Deception) check, though you
gain a +5 bonus to your check.
The disguise and the knowledge it grants
disappears when this ability’s duration ends.

I'm wondering if you hold onto the creature's shadow and are able to collect them or is it that after you use up the disguise the shadow disappears? I really want to just collect a ton of shadows.

Snivlem
2018-02-10, 02:35 AM
The description is very clear you can only keep one shadow at a time.

Doomboy911
2018-02-10, 02:36 AM
The description is very clear you can only keep one shadow at a time.

College of Valor it is. Thank you.

Specter
2018-02-10, 07:46 AM
Also remember that most of this disguise stuff is totally DM-dependant - some DMs don't include these scenarios in their campaign, and some that do are incredibly nitpicky about it. My advice? Just take the Charlatan background and hope you don't need its features.

Doomboy911
2018-02-10, 10:01 AM
Also remember that most of this disguise stuff is totally DM-dependant - some DMs don't include these scenarios in their campaign, and some that do are incredibly nitpicky about it. My advice? Just take the Charlatan background and hope you don't need its features.

I was mostly interested in the shadow stealing bit, to have a shadow too large that seems to waver and move outside it's own accord.