I haven no experience but would like to play D&D 5e with a group as a changeling (slightly tweaked) monk Here is my brief (it is longer, trust me) character backstory idea for any interested parties or DMs. I have more but thought I'd just give a taste so you know what I'm about with my idea for this character. Am willing to discuss more. I am located in CST and can play after 10 on Saturdays (I am willing to play with some overseas people who speak English) I can play on Sundays after 11pm up to 6pm. and I could do some weekdays (not Friday or Wednesdays) after six. I have webcam and can do audio and video and would be willing to do audio as I hate accidentally talking over people XD and think I'd find audio too confusing as to who is talking, but don't know haven't tried it. her family had developed the art of animal shapshifting which even
in the magic community was considered dark arts. So they were attacked and
outcast and one day when out at market they were attacked and the little girl
was hurt in the head. When she woke up her family had moved but the damage done
to her head developed in her face blindness, which she didn’t realize, so she
thought the people she was with was not her family and she had been adopted by
another family and though they insisted they were her family she was young and
not that bright but the family was nice to her and eventually she felt bad for
the fact they always insisted she was their daughter whom they had lost at the
same time she lost her family. And by the
way they treated her she believed something bad had happened to her
parents and they were trying to protect her by insisting she was theirs. So
eventually she stopped letting on she did not believe they were not her
parents, they did not look like her parents, but everything else about them reminded
her of her parents. But eventually when she was older she ran away to find her
actual parents, when her shapshifting powers started to manifest, she did not
want her adoptive family to get in trouble so she decided to find her parents
to get help from them to control her powers. She also hoped that now that she
was gone the family would take the time to find their actual daughter. And she
found another group of people who had developed shapeshifting, and thought they
were her family but they sold her to a fighting arena where they put a band on
her so she couldn’t shift out of her preferred tiger form and so she had to
fight people and other animals and she did this for years when she finally
broke free and when she did that she went to search for her adoptive family but
they had moved on to find their daughter. So her long term goal is to find her
adoptive family. And her short term goal is to recall what it is to be human
because she was a tiger for so many years she has a distrust and flighty and growl
at people at times and sometimes single focused like an animal. She’s also
still not very bright but she’s good with athletic stuff and good with her
hands so picks up that stuff fast. But she’s not book smart or always
intelligence and practical smart. And though she can be distrustful once you
gain her trusts she’ll be protective of you like animal. So has animal
instincts and interactions but trying to learn to be human.