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[hong]

Another attempt to present shadar-kai as "monsters with traction."

You seem to dislike shadar-kai.

 

[keterys]

Hmm, drow are exiled elves who consort with demons and live in the underdark.

Shadarkai are immortal humans in service to the God of Death in the Shadowfell who hurt themselves so they actually feel something.

They... seem... different... to... me.

 

[hong]

Hmm, drow are exiled elves who consort with demons and live in the underdark.

Shadarkai are immortal humans in service to the God of Death in the Shadowfell who hurt themselves so they actually feel something.

They... seem... different... to... me.

The train of thought seems to be

Driz'zt -> angst
Shadar-kai -> angst
Driz'zt -> drow

THEREFORE

Shadar-kai -> drow

or something.

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I wouldn't even say it is really "angst" sure from our perspective it seems quite bleak. But I imagine more then a few Shadar-Kai are wholly consumed by their culture and process of staying alive and thus are quite elated, hell probably happy to find war and battle.

Thus why there is a caste system too, each of them are scrambling to find the best position to satisfy what they need.

 

[Aria Silverhands]

Blech... a chain sword/whip? Yet another piece of crap to houserule out.

 

[AZRogue]

I liked this one, but I like the shadar-kai. Probably because I'm going to have a lot of shadowfell in my campaign and am going to make darkness an actually dangerous element. I liked the shadar-kai weapons, too. They look like they would hurt!

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Art by Chris Stevens and Espen Grundet Jern
Shadar-kai cling to darkness and shadows. They are a bleak and sinister humanlike people that inhabit the Shadowfell and serve the Raven Queen.

Okay, maybe they are the human answer to Drows, but I still like them.

I am not sure if the complaints that WotC is just desperately trying to create a cool race are warranted. It might be true, it might not be. But I am tired of Drow. They are not cool to me. They are incompetent dark elves trying to take the world whose plans are consistentlyfoiled by small groups of adventurers... They have a society that eats on itself and is clichéd evil in a way that could never work in a "real" world.

The Shadar-Kai might become all that. But at this point of time, they are new, fresh and have potential. They might be slightly crazy, but I see a chance that their society can still work...

And I think they definitely fit the idea of a "Dark Reflection" of Humans...


Oh, and bare mid-riff female Shadar Kais are hot. Stupid metal in skin be damned...

 

[hong]

Blech... a chain sword/whip? Yet another piece of crap to houserule out.

Play more Soul Calibur.

 

[hong]

I wonder how "Princess Magnificent with Lips of Coral and Robes of Black Feathers" would go as a Shadar-kai name?

 

[AZRogue]

Okay, maybe they are the human answer to Drows, but I still like them.
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I would agree. They seem like a decent race to me that I can use. Drow are a bit played out, though always ready to pop back in when you need someone the PCs KNOW is going to be trouble.

I already have my first encounter with the shadar-kai and the PCs planned out, with them seeing this strange individual around town "writing" on himself with a knife.