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Is Shadow Blade = Pass W/O Trace?
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<blockquote data-quote="Todd Roybark" data-source="post: 7889801" data-attributes="member: 6920677"><p>Which reads as balanced to me.</p><p></p><p>A druid with SB might be better at melee, but might regret the loss of utility of Pw/oT.</p><p>A wizard trades one excellent situational spell for another.</p><p>Even in the case of a cleric of trickery with the Dragonmark of Shadow asking to replace the Pw/oT granted by the Dragonmark with Shadow Blade, is a character built off this chassis with both spells too powerful?</p><p>I would argue allowing a cleric of trickery to have Shadow Blade on their spell list, just helps the subclass to feel more cleric/assassin like without having to resort to multiclassing.</p><p>What is worse the 15th level Shadow Dragonmarked Cleric of Trickery being able to cast a Pw/oT, and then spending their Concentration on a 8th level Shadow Blade (5d8 dmg) to Elven crit fish away, or the same character casting <em>Earthquake</em> because the Cleric 8th level spell list is kinda sparse....</p><p></p><p>A gloomstalker casting Shadow Blade instead of Pw/oT is no scarier than what Eldritch Knight, or Arcane Trickster subclasses can already do. High Elf Samurai/Bladesinger is a trope practically <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😜" title="Winking face with tongue :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61c.png" data-shortname=":stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Todd Roybark, post: 7889801, member: 6920677"] Which reads as balanced to me. A druid with SB might be better at melee, but might regret the loss of utility of Pw/oT. A wizard trades one excellent situational spell for another. Even in the case of a cleric of trickery with the Dragonmark of Shadow asking to replace the Pw/oT granted by the Dragonmark with Shadow Blade, is a character built off this chassis with both spells too powerful? I would argue allowing a cleric of trickery to have Shadow Blade on their spell list, just helps the subclass to feel more cleric/assassin like without having to resort to multiclassing. What is worse the 15th level Shadow Dragonmarked Cleric of Trickery being able to cast a Pw/oT, and then spending their Concentration on a 8th level Shadow Blade (5d8 dmg) to Elven crit fish away, or the same character casting [I]Earthquake[/I] because the Cleric 8th level spell list is kinda sparse.... A gloomstalker casting Shadow Blade instead of Pw/oT is no scarier than what Eldritch Knight, or Arcane Trickster subclasses can already do. High Elf Samurai/Bladesinger is a trope practically 😜 [/QUOTE]
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