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drizzt420 02-19-08, 12:35 PM	I have a PC in a game I run that plays a Shadow Adept. He is not good aligned, I think he is neutral evil, but he plays fairly good aligned. He never devoted himself truly to Shar (killing a follower of Selune) and lost the two points of Wisdom as a result. Currently, he has been cohorting with Shar as she is trying to manipulate him to her will. I, as the DM, am trying to offer both sides of a coin here to the PC. Power form Shar, the easy way - but trying to balance this with his tendency to not be truly devoted to her. I guess what I am asking is such: Are there good natured Shadow Adepts? And if so, what is to stop Shar from just not allowing him to tap the Shadow Weave if this PC is in direct opposition to her goals. I am trying to weave Anauroch, City of Shade's adventure storyline loosely into my game revolving around the scattering of the Nether Scrolls. The PC basically worships her now, but only because he fears the loss of his magic.
buzzard 02-19-08, 12:50 PM	I guess what I am asking is such: Are there good natured Shadow Adepts? Shadow Weave magic users can have any alignment (since there's no alignment prerequisite for the Shadow Weave feat), the Shadow Adept Prestige Class however, has an "any non-good" alignment prerequisite. You need to have any evil or any neutral alignment to be able to take levels in the Prestige Class. And if so, what is to stop Shar from just not allowing him to tap the Shadow Weave if this PC is in direct opposition to her goals. Nothing except reducing her Divine Rank until the point where she would lose her "Deny Shadow Weave" Salient Divine Ability or by killing her, both are near impossible things to do so I might as well say that it's impossible to prevent that. I have a PC in a game I run that plays a Shadow Adept. He is not good aligned, I think he is neutral evil, but he plays fairly good aligned. He never devoted himself truly to Shar (killing a follower of Selune) and lost the two points of Wisdom as a result. Since the 3.5 revision of the Shadow Weave feat you no longer lose two points of Wisdom if you do not worship Shar, you need a wis score of 15 (was it previously 13?), if however you do not have the required wis score you can then worship Shar and qualify for the feat even if you have a wisdom score lower than 15.
Alediran 02-19-08, 01:24 PM	There are many Shadow Adepts who don't worship her, even to the point of doing the opposite things but Shar never bothered to take the access to the SW from them, one of those Shadow Adepts is Galaeron Nihmedu, a Moon Elf from Evereska.
SATA 02-19-08, 02:23 PM	IMHO, Shar want the SW to spread so the only way I see her denying acces to the SW is if the caster tapping to it, use it to know "how it works" so that way could find a way to, by his own means or rather helping Mystra, to shut it down.
Lord Karsus 02-19-08, 08:29 PM	There are many Shadow Adepts who don't worship her, even to the point of doing the opposite things but Shar never bothered to take the access to the SW from them, one of those Shadow Adepts is Galaeron Nihmedu, a Moon Elf from Evereska. -I don't necessarily think he was a Shadow Adept. A user of the Shadow Weave, though? Sure.
Alediran 02-20-08, 06:22 AM	I saw him stated in a Dragon Magazine with Shadow Adept levels.
Green Elven Vampire 02-22-08, 07:43 AM	There is also Aeron Morieth... a Half elf Shadow Adept from Chessenta who's CN