View source for Shadowdancer, Tome (3.5e Prestige Class)

===Campaign Information===

====Playing a Shadowdancer====

'''Combat:''' Shadowdancers do almost the exact same thing as a [[SRD:Rogue|Rogue]]. What they don't get is more Trap Sense or Rogue special abilities.

'''Advancement:''' Presumably, Shadowdancers will continue advancing in Rogue or another Roguish prestige class when they finish with this one.

'''Resources:''' Varies. Shadowdancers are generally lone wolf types, but it's not inconceivable that there's an organization or guild full of them out there somewhere.

====Shadowdancers in the World====

Shadowdancers are rarely drawn from the ranks of the common street Rogue. The prestige class grants several spell-like and other magical abilities; it is very likely that any given Shadowdancer will have had a great deal of contact with some sort of magic in his or her past.

'''NPC Reactions:''' For their ability to jump out of someone's shadow without warning and stab them in the face, Shadowdancers are fairly well feared by the peasant masses. That's not to say that people or creatures higher up on the food chain don't fear them, but they are more likely to put aside the fear to employ the services of one.

====Shadowdancer Lore====

Characters with ranks in Knowledge (Arcana) can research Shadowdancers to learn more about them.  When a character makes a skill check, read or paraphrase the following, including information from lower DCs.

{| class="d20" {{#vardefine: odd | 0}}
|+ Knowledge (Arcana)
! DC || class="left" | Result
|- 
| 11 || class="left" | Shadowdancers are strange Rogues with the ability to teleport through shadows.
|- 
| 16 || class="left" | Shadowdancers can step out of their own shadows into the shadows of others.
|- 
| 21 || class="left" | Shadowdancers can command the shadows, allowing them to do feats like attacking someone with their own shadow and creating extremely realistic illusions.
|- 
| 26 || class="left" | Shadowdancers also learn how to control the light, to better be able to control the shadows.
|}

====Shadowdancers in the Game====

It should be extremely easy to make a Rogue PC into a Shadowdancer. PCs are exposed to magic almost constantly. With NPCs, you'll generally want to only make upper- or middle-class NPCs into Shadowdancers. They are the ones more likely to be exposed to magic, and the ones with the time to study and meditate on the shadows. Lower class NPC Rogues are probably spending all their time pickpocketing people.

'''Adaptation:''' Shadowdancers are pretty generic. You can make some weird organization made up of all Shadowdancers if you want, but there's really no problems with occasionally having your upper-class Rogue be a Shadowdancer.

'''Sample Shadowdancer:'''

{{Stat Block 2
|name=Armir
|cr=7
|sex=Male
|race=[[human]]
|clvl=Rogue 5/Shadowdancer 2
|al=[[CN]]
|size=[[Medium]]
|type=[[humanoid]] ([[SRD:Human (Creature)|human]])
|init=+9 |listen=+10 |spot=+10
|lang=Common, Elven, Dwarven
|ac=21 |touch=15 |flat=16
|hp=34 |hd=7
|fort=+3 |ref=+12 |will=+2
|spd=30 ft. (6 squares)
|bab=+4 |grp=+4
|atkop=Darkness, Rapid Shot, Shadow Slide, Shadow Strike, Two-Weapon Fighting
|str=10 |dex=18 |con=12 |int=14 |wis=10 |cha=14
|skills=[[SRD:Bluff|Bluff]] 10, [[SRD:Diplomacy|Diplomacy]] 5, [[SRD:Disable Device|Disable Device]] 10, [[SRD:Hide|Hide]] 10, [[SRD:Listen|Listen]] 10, [[SRD:Move Silently|Move Silently]] 10, [[SRD:Sense Motive|Sense Motive]] 5, [[SRD:Sleight of Hand|Sleight of Hand]] 10, [[SRD:Spot|Spot]] 10, [[SRD:Use Magic Device|Use Magic Device]] 5, [[SRD:Use Rope|Use Rope]] 5
|feats=[[SRD:Improved Initiative|Improved Initiative]], [[SRD:Point Blank Shot|Point Blank Shot]], [[SRD:Rapid Shot|Rapid Shot]], [[SRD:Two-Weapon Fighting|Two-Weapon Fighting]]
|poss=+1 Mithril Shirt, masterwork Shortbow, Gloves of Dexterity +2, masterwork thief's tools, 20 vials of Acid, 20 vials of Alchemist's Fire, 2 shortswords
}}

Armir is the son of a nobleman who fell from grace. He spends his time stealing well-guarded objects from the castles and manors of other noble families.


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