Originally Posted by
Pandjed
Of course there are plenty of changelings in DDO, you just can't tell they are, which is basically the whole point of the race. :P Oh well, would have been interesting to have Randall Lyric in different races depending on position, because he certainly would be a changeling candidate.
Now to more serious things: Changelings will be hard to implement. The idea of changelings is based on their ability to shapeshift. Lorewise, changelings don't change their form for a short-time benefit (other than magic users that uses illusion magic), but to develop a whole identity (including personality and profession) around a form, not to steal one.
This is actually a fun idea and would work well in DDO, using your enhancement tree to add to one and later 2 different "adventurer personas". However, there is a very hard reason why this will be problematic to be implemented... character models. Even if we take away the choice of the player to have control over the appearance they take on in their shapeshift and code it to their changeling appearance, there are very different variants at work. Like how tieflings and tabaxi have tails and therefore it's unlikely that this variable is re-used elsewhere in appearance.
So with a huge headache how to implement the changeling's most basic and important feature in a game that wasn't designed to have it in the first place, it would mean that either they take the time to make a huge rewrite, they settle with some pre-determined variants and everyone looks too much the same, or they forgo the appearance-change altogether (which would make introducing the race kinda pointless from my perspective).
Would be great to have changelings in a Sharn-like expansion though, and be it as NPCs that further the story.