Or a good way to tpk a party without them being mad

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I think people believe this is more powerful than it actually is. After doing research that you can do yourself. The Shadow’s strength drain doesn’t stack with itself.

 Sage Advice states that Shadow's drain is actually an exception to the rule of same name stacking. It's meant to still stack and be capable of killing. "Since game features of the same name don’t stack, does that mean a target can’t be affected by a shadow’s Strength Drain more than once between rests? The intended function of Strength Drain is that it stacks with itself, as signaled by the fact that you die if your Strength is reduced to 0 by it."

 Not to mention how it's an instantaneous effect, like damage, so it not stacking would make no sense. Being subjected to a fireball doesn't mean that until you heal you're immune to the fireball spell.

1 word, CR inflation

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1 word, CR inflation

 That two words you idiot, and CR itself is a stand in for two words!

my players are going to love this

Imagine, for a moment

A town with, say, a low population of 1000 non-evil humanoids.

A spiteful necromancer, wanting to destroy it

and a singular shadow, which may or may not be under the necromancer's control.

What happens if you die and get revived after the shadow detaches but you don't.kill it? Just go through life with no shadow?

What happens is that the new shadow senses that you are now alive and will hunt you so that they can kill you, but yes you no longer cast a shadow until you kill that shadow.

against a weak party it could attack and then wait get another shadow and build up its numbers and then with it,s larger numbers it could slowly attack whole villages. It could even be a whole campaign stopping the army of shadows from taking over the world. 

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I know that they are weak to radiant but how is a "SHADOW" resistant to FIRE 

 I think they were referring to the light from the fire

If your team has cleric they can use word of radiance or spirit guardians to completely demolish the shadows, paladins or aasimar characters can also be extremely good when dealing with shadows, though they are most deadly when used as a part of a trap, maybe an archmage has their lab only accessible by magical bridge they can disable so that the party and especially their mages fall down into the pit full of shadows

My question is; how the hell is this a CR 1/2 monster? A party of level 1s would get obliterated by ONE of these creatures. A party of level 2 would struggle but probably win. My dm was like oh yea cr1/2 shadow? My party of level 3s can handle four of these. They are only 1/2 after all. Almost a TPK. Everything we hit it with "damage reduction" Our TWO strength based front line martials ended up with negative modifiers to their attacks by end of fight.. Making this fight even worse. My character has 8 strength and the DM max rolled the reduction on me once. I was like wtf im going to die in two hits. We got attacked from behind (where i was) because they were hiding in a shadow. Luckily the second attack missed or id have been ****ed. If he max rolled the reduction again i was at 0 strength. Bam.. Dead. Poof. Before i even rolled a turn.. dead dead

Ya know a CR1/2 monster that has resistance to pretty much everything a part of level 1-3 adventurers have, can easily outright kill low strength adventurers, as well as perpetually one shot level 1s and even level 2 mage classes

A character killed by the shadow’s strength drain can still be raised/revivified as usual though, correct?

these should not cr 1/2 at lease cr 1

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A common D&D party has 3-6 members.

There atleast 1-2 tank class (Barbarian, Cleric, Fighter, Paladin) characters and at least one of them will be strength based (Barbarian). They should be taking the hits from the Shadow. Maybe on a surprise round the small squishy people will be hit. 

There should be atleast 1-3 character focusing on damage (Rogues, Fighters, Monks) and they can hurt the shadow even though the shadow is resistant to most of their attacks. 

Lastly 1-2 characters are healers. They can ensure other characters don't die (though not Strength Drain). They can also do damage and if one of these healers is a cleric they have radiant damage cantrips that can hurt the shadows.

 Though a party can consist of any variety of class types. You could all just attack in a single turn. If your DM is not a jerk or not inexperienced, you would not be facing more than the party can handle.

 there's one problem: that strength based character you had doesn't get their strength back (unless you have a nice dm), and because of it's low CR most DMs don't know what they've gotten their players into. many times, a DM will think "oh 1/2 cr? this level three party will need quite a few for it to be a challenge"
then that 6v6 fight turns into 7v5 and then everyone else is simply screwed.

Bro my DM spawned this thing in the game while I was in an old dark basement.... not surprised I died tbh

Everybody here is talking about whether or not this monster is OP. I don't think so at a micro level.

However, think bigger. Those monsters can be devastating on villages or towns at the fall of night. New shadows emerge from the dead citizen and create more man-power(shadow-power?)

Imagine you have in your world a place like the north pole, where there can be no sun for 6 months straight! That's shadow time!

You’re correct. Because I tested Shadows in the Dungeon Master’s Guide’s monster stat system and found the following:

• AC: 12 (+4 from Shadow Stealth): 1
• HP: 16 (32 from resistances): 1/8
  • Averages to Defence CR 1/2
• Att: +4 (1/2)
• Dam: 9 (1)
  • Averages to Attack CR 1

So in short, based on monster creation rules, they qualify as CR 1 creatures since you’re supposed to average up between the highest of the two ratings.

SILVERY BARBS :) ROLL AGAIN