Playing Shadar-kai

[Fallen Seraph]

The denizens of the Shadowfell are now fully playable in this newest "Playing" article. The Shadar-kai:

Dragon 372: Playing Shadar-kai

 

[davethegame]

Spiked Chain multiclass too, pretty interesting.

 

[ppaladin123]

Hmmm...insider has once again decided that my year-long subscription has expired. Great....I really enjoy calling WotC customer service and wasting 1/2 hour trying to figure out what is wrong.

 

[Solodan]

Wow, just plain great.

Skimmed it, but most striking thing so far is the Chain Expert multiclass feat.

Double Weapon with Reach that's also a light blade!!!

Good times!

 

[Shroomy]

Mechanically, this is probably the the most interesting "Playing..." article released so far. Spiked chain weapon specialization, really flavorful racial paragon paths, a pretty cool Epic Destiny, and some very interesting racial feats (I especially loved the ones that modify at-wills). Good stuff all around.

 

[Hawke]

Yeah, I'm digging the article! Definitely my favorite "playing" article so far - and I'm not necessarily a big shadar-kai fan. I don't really like the art in it, though... not that it's poorly done, but I just don't think captured the feel I had in my mind about them, shrug.

What is the reach of a spiked chain?

 

[yesnomu]

Very nice--especially that Shadowed Aegis feat! Like the Assault Swordmage needed to be cooler.

Spiked chains have reach 2. I really like the look of that Weapon mastery feat!

 

[Hawke]

Spiked chains have reach 2. I really like the look of that Weapon mastery feat!

Where can I find that info? I checked AV and the article... maybe I'm missing it

 

[FireLance]

Where can I find that info? I checked AV and the article... maybe I'm missing it

It's part of the Reach property:

"With a reach weapon, you can attack enemies that are 2 squares away from you as well as adjacent enemies, with no attack penalty. You can still make opportunity attacks only against adjacent enemies. Likewise, you can flank only an adjacent enemy."​

 

[zerotkatama]

Spiked Chains are in the Player's Handbook.

Edit: Ninja'd by FireLance