Publisher: Dungeon Masters GuildBook of Shadows
The Book of Shadows contain player options wrought in darkness, shadowy creatures and magical items of light and dark. For a free taste, take a look at the School of Shadow, which is also featured in the Book of Shadows.
The Book of Shadows contain:
- 1 new player race, with two sub-races
- 4 new archetypes
- 6 new creatures
- 1 new creature template
- 6 magical items
New player race.
The shadar-kai are a race born or created in darkness, who can travel through shadow and endure necrotic damage. Dark and gloomy, restless and wraithlike. There are two sub-races to the shadar-kai: the Restless shadar-kai and the Wraithlike shadar-kai.
New archetypes.
The College of Twilight are for bards who feel more at home in the shadows than in the bright spotlight. The music of these dark bards interweaves with the darkness around them, strengthening their spells, weakening their enemies and granting them control of the shadows.
The Darkness Domain is an option for clerics who pray to dark deities such as Mask, Shar or Takhisis. A cleric with the darkness domain can conjure sheets of magical darkness and dispel light, and gain protection from the shadows.
The Shadowdancer Archetype is for the rogue who feels at home in the darkness, and who wants to bend the shadows to her will. Able to hide in plain sight and jump through shadows, the shadowdancer is as lethal as she is stealthy.
The School of Shadow is for wizards who want to draw upon the Weave of Shadows, in order to transform their magic into dark spells that are harder to dispel and resist. A wizard of the shadow school can mirror the magic of others, penetrate arcane defenses and use darkness to mend their wounds.
New creatures.
The gloom spider is a giant dangerous creature native to the Shadowfell, which can spew a web of shadows to weak its foes.
The nightwalker is a giant, undead creature that raises shadows to fight for it, while it rends its enemies with massive claws.
The shadar-kai soldier is a fearsome and aggressive warrior, led in combat by the spiked chain-wielding shadar-kai elite. Shadowcasters cast dark spells from the shadows, while the nightpriests pray to Shar for their divine magic. Veserabs, large winged creatures, that resemble half-bat, half-worm, are the preferred mounts of the shadar-kai forces.
The shade is life and darkness intermeshed completely, creating a powerful being that draws power from the shadows around it. Nearly unstoppable in its natural element, the Shade is a worthy foe to even experienced adventurers.
New magical items.
Lastly, the Book of Shadows also contain a handful of magical weapons created from the darkness, or to combat it. There's dark weapons like the Darkspike, a shadowy spear that drains its targets, as well as Haunt, a fearsome shortbow that can raise those it slay as dark shadows. These weapons of darkness are matched by Shadeshear, a weapon created to destroy shadowy creatures, as well as the Evertorch, a torch that brings daylight to any cavern it is brandished in.
Besides these fearsome weapons, there's also a Philter of Shadowstuff, that can give a creature shadelike qualities, as well as a Shroud of Shadows, a cloak which lend its shadowy nature to its wearer.
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