Editing Shadar-kai (section)

==In 5th Edition==
Shadar-kai made an appearance for 5e in the November 2017 issue of [[Unearthed Arcana]]; whilst the focus was purely on crunch, their fluff was essentially a clumsy amalgamation of their lore from before - in a nutshell, taking all of their 4e lore, but making their base race be [[elf]] rather than [[human]]. As such, they are mechanically a subrace for elves, although their entire statblock is repeated here because 1d4chan is awesome like that.
::Ability Score Increase: +2 Dexterity, +1 Charisma
::Size: Medium
::Speed: 30 feet
::Darkvision 60 feet
::Keen Senses: Proficiency in Perception.
::Fey Ancestry: Advantage on saves against being charmed, and immune to magic that puts you to sleep.
::Trance: Trancing for 4 hours yields the same effect as an 8 hour sleep.
::Deathly Cantrip: You know a single cantrip chosen from a list of Chill Touch, Spare the Dying and Thaumaturgy. This cantrip can't be changed at a later date. Your spellcasting ability score for this cantrip is Charisma.
::Blessed By The [[Raven Queen]]: You can use a bonus action to teleport to an unoccupied space within 15 feet. After teleporting, you gain resistance to all damage until the end of your next turn, during which time you appear translucent and ghostly. After using this ability, you must complete a short rest or a long rest to use it again.

Shadar-kai later appeared in ''Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes'' but with some edits. The most notable among these changes includes the Deathly Cantrip being removed but the range of their teleport is increased to 30 feet. A new interesting detail for them is that they look like actual wrinkly old people while they're in the Shadowfell for some reason. Also, they're no longer BDSM freaks, [[Awesome|instead they just treat their bodies as disposable since they know their Raven Queen will resurrect them anyway.]] 

''Mordekainen's Monsters of the Multiverse'' saw another edit, splitting them off from the general Elf race like the [[Eladrin]]. This rewrite makes their stat increases fall into lines with the current paradigm of pick-your own stats (+2/+1 to two stats or +1 to three) and providing multiple uses of their teleport power equal to their proficiency bonus, but ultimately little else.

::Ability Score Increase: +2 Dexterity, +1 Constitution
::Size: Medium
::Speed: 30 feet
::Darkvision 60 feet
::Keen Senses: Proficiency in Perception.
::Fey Ancestry: Advantage on saves against being charmed, and immune to magic that puts you to sleep.
::Trance: Trancing for 4 hours yields the same effect as an 8 hour sleep.
::Necrotic Resistance: You have resistance to necrotic damage.
::Blessing of the Raven Queen: You can use a bonus action to magically teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within 30 feet. Starting at the 3rd character level, you gain resistance to all damage after teleporting with this trait until the start of your next turn, during which time you appear translucent and ghostly. After using this ability, you must complete a long rest to use it again.

If you want something closer to the 4e version of the race, [[Ulraunt's Guide to the Planes]] has got you covered!
::Ability Score Increase: +2 Dexterity, +1 to an ability score of your choice
::Size: Medium
::Speed: 30 feet 
::Darkvision 60 feet
::Shadow  Blend: While in dim light or darkness, you can use a bonus action to become invisible, along with anything you are wearing or carrying. The invisibility lasts for 1 minute, until you make an attack or cast a spell, are in bright light, become incapacitated, or until you use a bonus action to end it. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.
::Shadow Jaunt: When you are in dim light or darkness, as a bonus action you can teleport up to 60 feet to an unoccupied space you can see that is also in dim light or darkness. Once you use this trait, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.
::Shadow Stealth: While in dim light or darkness, you can take the Hide action as a bonus action.
::Spiked Chain Proficiency: You are proficient with the spiked chain and the heavy spiked chain.
::Languages: You can speak, read, and write Common.
::Epic Racial: Ghostly Jaunt: When you reach 25th character level, after using your Shadow Jaunt, you gain resistance to all damage until the start of your next turn.

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