So, I was wondering, the spell shadow blade creates a weapon, right? And kensei Monks can make a weapon a Kensei Weapon, right? So, does that mean Kensei's weapon could be a Shadow Blade? Not belonging in this thread but... Could you do the same with a pact weapon?
The sword created by the spell is a simple melee weapon, so yes, you could choose it.
Pact Weapons aren't a weapon type. If your Pact Weapon is one of the weapon types you chose for your kensei weapons then it gets the benefits, otherwise it doesn't.
There's a couple of reasons why Shadow Blade Pact Weapon wouldn't work or wouldn't be practical.
The ritual to turn a magic weapon into your Pact Weapon takes 1 hour, and Shadow Blade only lasts 1 minute. Even with some multiclassing into Sorcerer for Extended Spell, there's simply no way to make the weapon stick around long enough to complete the ritual.
Even if you could somehow extended the spell's duration by x60, you'd arguably be making that specific shadow blade your Pact Weapon, not all shadow blades you might conjure.
Also, given how dependent Blade Warlocks are on Pact of the Blade-focused invocations, you really don't want to make your Pact Weapon something that you can't have full time anyways. You'd be better off using a different weapon as your Pact Weapon and using Shadow Blade as your second weapon for two-weapon fighting.
So, I was wondering, the spell shadow blade creates a weapon, right? And kensei Monks can make a weapon a Kensei Weapon, right? So, does that mean Kensei's weapon could be a Shadow Blade? Not belonging in this thread but... Could you do the same with a pact weapon?
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The sword created by the spell is a simple melee weapon, so yes, you could choose it.
Pact Weapons aren't a weapon type. If your Pact Weapon is one of the weapon types you chose for your kensei weapons then it gets the benefits, otherwise it doesn't.
Its already a monk weapon so there is that as well.
I think he meant could you make a shadow blade your pact weapon
Yeah, that is what I meant. It'd be pretty cool, wouldn't it?
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There's a couple of reasons why Shadow Blade Pact Weapon wouldn't work or wouldn't be practical.
The ritual to turn a magic weapon into your Pact Weapon takes 1 hour, and Shadow Blade only lasts 1 minute. Even with some multiclassing into Sorcerer for Extended Spell, there's simply no way to make the weapon stick around long enough to complete the ritual.
Even if you could somehow extended the spell's duration by x60, you'd arguably be making that specific shadow blade your Pact Weapon, not all shadow blades you might conjure.
Also, given how dependent Blade Warlocks are on Pact of the Blade-focused invocations, you really don't want to make your Pact Weapon something that you can't have full time anyways. You'd be better off using a different weapon as your Pact Weapon and using Shadow Blade as your second weapon for two-weapon fighting.
OH, ok. Thank you!
Extended Signature! Yay! https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/off-topic/adohands-kitchen/3153-extended-signature-thread?page=2#c21
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