Somewhere in the forest, a baby cries. It’s easy to tell what general direction the noise comes from, but it stops as suddenly as it started. If the PCs search for the source of the sound, they find a peculiar tree growing in the middle of a clearing. The clearing is full of dead vines and rotting saplings, as if something leached all the life from the area. The tree itself is dull red and its branches are a tangled mess that seem to be consuming each other. Heavy webs cling to them.

In the midst of the branches is a human baby. A small dopplegänger clambers around it. It adopts the child’s form as the PCs watch. The webs contain 1d6 giant spiders. In ten minutes, 1d4 full-sized dopplegängers return to the tree.

Statistics

Baby Dopplegänger

AC 6 [13], HD 1-1, Att 1 × bite (1d6), THAC0 19 [0], MV 60’ (20’), SV D14 W15 P16 B17 S18, ML 8 (9 if other dopplegängers are present) AL Chaotic, XP 5 TT None

The Baby Dopplegänger has all the abilities of a fully grown member of its species.