#dogai

"Pathfinder Character: Changeling Mesmerist" © Istvan Straban, accessed at his ArtStation here.

[Inspired by conversation around the sweet hag. Notice that I am only doing small racial abilities, a la the Advanced Race Guide and Inner Sea Races, rather than doing whole subtypes as in Blood of the Coven. That's because I like the smaller, subtler differences between changelings more. And because the Blood of the Coven abilities are wildly out of sync with each other, power-level wise, especially when the feats from that book are taken into account. These are all small, situational bonuses, except for the groac'h, which mostly reflects my belief that Exotic Weapon Proficiency is not a very good feat, and nets are not very good weapons.]

Variant Changeling Traits The multifarious lineages of hags all may occasionally breed with humanoid men, and thus be mothers to changelings. These changelings are influenced by their haggish mothers, granting them the following hag racial traits:

Capacitor (Ame-Onna): The changeling gains a +2 racial bonus on saving throws made against electricity effects.

Cast the Net (Groac'h): The changeling gains Exotic Weapon Proficiency (net) as a bonus feat.

Crocodile Charmer (Cuca): The changeling gains a +2 racial bonus on Handle Animal and wild empathy checks made to influence reptiles.

Daughter of Darkness (Void Hag): The changeling gains a +1 racial bonus on all saves against fear and sleep effects. Under the night sky, this bonus increases to +2.

Discerning Palate (Sweet Hag): The changeling gains a +2 racial bonus on Perception checks made to taste.

Soft Fall (Dogai): The changeling treats all falling damage as if the fall were 10 feet shorter.

Sure Footed (Ut’lun’ta): The changeling gains a +2 racial bonus to Acrobatics checks made moving through rubble, scree or on uneven stone surfaces.

Dogai, the 226th Known One.

Image © @chimeride, accessed at their tumblr here

[The dogai are the archetypal monster in the lore of the Torres Straits. Unfortunately, they have a lot of Google camouflage. The assassin devil from D&D 3.5 and 4e is also called the "dogai". I have no idea if this is an intentional reference, or if it's a coincidence due to how many short combinations of syllables sound good. Like a lot of good ogres, they vacillate between dangerous and stupid, so I didn't want them to be super powerful. The appearance of the image comes from Oceanic Mythology by Roland Dixon, which refers to dogai as having the face of a flying fox.]

Dogai CR 4 CE Monstrous Humanoid This creature is a bestial humanoid, with a furry body and spindly, scaled arms and legs. Its face has a long muzzle and staring eyes, and its ears are as large as its body, wrapped around it like a shawl.

The dogai are bestial hags native to tropical islands. They are of low intelligence—few of them can speak Common, and they are rather foolish and easily tricked. Still, they are malicious and dangerous as any hag, and engage in much the same behavior as other hags, such as seducing people in disguise and kidnapping children in order to eat them.

A dogai often attacks from ambush, assuming the form of a beautiful woman or a harmless animal in order to get close enough to strike. These disguises are supplemented with mimicked vocalizations, including short snatches of intelligible speech. Once in combat, they rarely use tactics more creative than full attacks, but if they have a hard time clawing or biting a foe, may lash out with magic. Dogai are cowardly, and usually try to flee if they are losing a fight.

Dogai tend to live on remote islands uninhabited by other humanoids, and then travel to wreak havoc using magic. They usually wind walk at night, and their cloudy forms look something like humanoid constellations in the dark sky. Dogai can join and make covens as other hags can. Without a more intelligent hag to act as guidance, these covens can be especially destructive, but unfocused and disorganized.

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