The Shadar-kai are NEVER going to be the next drow

[haakon1]

OK, so what are New Romantic Synth-pop?
And how about Blues? Any races out there have the blues? (and I've already considered Blues and disregarded them on account of them being rubbish.)

Mongrelmen got the blues . . . I like mongrelmen.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Gnomes have the "My butt got kicked out of the 4Ed PHB blues"

"I woke up the morning
4th Edition got announced
I scanned thru them pages...
My entire race got bounced!

I gots the blues...
Oh' Garl- I gots them blues
We're only in the MM,
With them dragons of different hues."

 

[DrunkonDuty]

My father was half-orc,
My ma was a gnolblin,
I'm outcast from the tribes
and ugly as all sin!
I got the Mongrelman blues,
I got walking away Mongrleman Bloooooos.


Yeah, that works for me.

 

[Glyfair]

Personally, I love the Shadar-kai and plan to use them. Am I alone?

I have to admit, I've seen a few discussions where people were begging for Shadar-kai to appear in 3rd party products, even after it was pointed out that it was WotC IP. They certainly have a cult following (sort of like the gith did in the early days).

 

[Fallen Seraph]

I still don't see Shadar-Kai in 4e as nu metal/emo, it is closer to metal then anything else. They are a race that will laugh and get pumped up and essentially find elation in being in-combat/getting the crap beat out of them.

They would actually make a PERFECT berzerker race, they revel in pain as the main-thing keeping them together and they are masters of combat. Berzerkers are masters of combat and use pain to help energize/enrage them.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

These descriptions of the Shadar-kai remind me a bit of the Qullan, also from the original FF. They were freaky, tattooed berserkers who got off on pain and scarification. They also had a permanent Chaos field around them. Me, I'd like to see these guys come back.

 

[Derro]

Total freaks.

They had that wicked +3/+3 greatsword that only stayed sharp if they had it.

The old Dragon magazine that had 1e rules for playing humanoids had a qullan fighting some dwarves on the cover. And they're right next to...

QUAGGOTHS!!!

And how could you say that about Blue? Good enough for OotS, good enough for me.

 

[DrunkonDuty]

Oooh, forgot the extra sharp swords.

I once ran a campaign (that died too soon) that had tribes of Quaggoth invading the human lands. What the players never learned (unfortunately) was that the Quaggoth were being driven out of their own lands by invading Qullan. I guess I just had a Q thing going on at the time.

 

[DM_Jeff]

I simply never gave the Shadar-kai much notice until recently. They are featured in the Cormyr: Tearing of the Weave hardcover adventure and I went to research them for that.

Does anyone recall the Issue of Dragon where the Shadar-kai Ecology was written?

-DM Jeff

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

Oooh, forgot the extra sharp swords.

I once ran a campaign (that died too soon) that had tribes of Quaggoth invading the human lands. What the players never learned (unfortunately) was that the Quaggoth were being driven out of their own lands by invading Qullan. I guess I just had a Q thing going on at the time.

Was this your 17th campaign you ever run, and and the next campaign featured R-related monsters? At what point of the alphabet are you now? Did you invent new letters, or are you recycling?