Shaman

Spiritual Connection

Shamans serve as the direct connection between the mortal world and the realms of spirits, being called by the spirits to speak and act for them among mortals. These spirits come in a variety of forms, ranging from nature spirits to the souls of fallen ancestors. By bargaining and negotiating with spirits, an occulist is granted power from the spirits, both to serve the spirits' goals, but also in part as a reward for serving them. The powers granted stems from the very energies permeating throughout nature and reflects it by granting effects resembling the elements of nature.

Soul Vessel

While gaining physical and magical prowess from the spirits, a Shaman never has true control of their powers, merely serving as a vessel for the spirits to channel their energies through. To keep the spirits happy and to ensure that they keep they powers, Shamans often make ritual sacrifices and offer prayers and services to the spirits.

The Gift of the Spirits

As an Shaman becomes more powerful, they become more attached to the Spirit World, and gradually, they transition into becoming more of a living spirit themselves, being detached from mortal problems and fueling their own spiritual powers instead of relying on the spirits they worship and serve. At that point, an Shaman becomes neither mortal nor immortal, neither living nor dead, just something inbetween.

Creating an Shaman

When making your Shaman, you should consider why your character has such a close bond with nature and the spirits in particular. Perhaps you are a part of a tribe that worships your ancestors which takes their form as spirits, or maybe you have witnessed a murder in the forest, which have traumatized you and brought you closer to the spiritual wo. Perhaps your character had a dramatic encounter with the spirits of nature, falling from a tree or down a waterfall and barely surviving, maybe in part due to spirits saving you.

Have you always been an adventurer as part of your spiritual calling, or did you first spend time as a caretaker of a mausoleum or graveyard? Perhaps your homeland was befouled by evil, and you took up an adventuring life in hopes of finding a new home or purpose.

Quick Build

You can make a Shaman quickly by following these suggestions. First, Wisdom should be your highest ability modifier, followed by either Strength or Dexterity. Secondly, you should take the Outlander background.

CHAPTER 2 | CLASSES

Class Features

Proficiencies

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• Armor: light armor, medium armor, shields (shamans will not wear armor or use shields made of metal)
• Weapons: simple weapons, flail, morning star, whip, blowgun
• Tools: Herbalism kit

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• Saving Throws: Wisdom, Strength
• Skills: Choose two from Animal Handling, Insight, Medicine, Nature, Religion, Stealth and Survival.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• any simple weapon, a flail, a morning star or a whip
• (a) a sling and 20 stones, or (b) a wooden shield
• (a) a set of hide armor, or (b) a set of leather armor.
• An explorer's pack and a druidic focus.

Metal Armor

Like druids, shamans will refuse to wear armor or shields primarily made of metal. Among non-magical armor, shamans can wear leather, studded leather and hide, as they are primarily made of non-metal materials. Other armor may have variants that allow them to be worn by shamans.

The Shaman

Level	Proficiency Bonus	Features	Cantrips Known	Spell Slots	Slot Level
1st	+2	Spirit Magic, Mystical Preparation (1 Spell)	2	1	1st
2nd	+2	Spiritual Calling, Imbued Soul (2d6)	2	1	1st
3rd	+2	Occult Arts, Natural Barrier	2	2	1st
4th	+2	Ability Score Improvement	2	2	1st
5th	+3	Occult Prowess	2	2	2nd
6th	+3	Spiritual Calling Feature	2	2	2nd
7th	+3	Mystical Preparation (3 Spells), Distilled Nature	2	2	2nd
8th	+3	Ability Score Improvement	2	2	2nd
9th	+4	─	2	2	3rd
10th	+4	Spiritual Calling Feature	3	2	3rd
11th	+4	Imbued Soul (4d6), Shamanic Conduit	3	2	3rd
12th	+4	Ability Score Improvement	3	2	3rd
13th	+5	─	3	2	4th
14th	+5	Spiritual Calling Feature	4	2	4th
15th	+5	Ethereal Sight, Improved Distilled Nature	4	2	4th
16th	+5	Ability Score Improvement	4	2	4th
17th	+6	─	4	2	5th
18th	+6	Fleeting Soul	4	2	5th
19th	+6	Ability Score Improvement	4	2	5th
20th	+6	Master of the Occult	4	2	5th

CHAPTER 2 | CLASSES

Cantrips (0-Level Spells)

At 1st level, you know two cantrips of your choice from the Shaman spell list. At higher levels, you learn additional Shaman cantrips of your choice, as shown in the Cantrips Known column of the Shaman table.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Shaman table shows how many spell slots you have. The table also shows what the level of those slots is; all of your spell slots are the same level. To cast one of your shaman spells of 1st level or higher, you must expend a spell slot. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a short or long rest. For example, when you are 5th level, you have two 2nd-level spell slots. To cast the 1st-level spell cause fear, you must spend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 2nd-level spell.

You prepare the list of Shaman spells that are available for you to cast, choosing from the shaman spell list. When you do so, choose a number of shaman spells equal to your Wisdom modifier + half your shaman level, rounded down (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots of the level or higher. For example, if you are a 5th-level shaman with a Wisdom of 16, your list of prepared shaman spells can include five spells of 1st and 2nd level, in any combination. You can also change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of shaman spells requires time spent in prayer and meditation: at least 1 minute per spell level for each spell on your list.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your shaman spells, since your magic draws upon your devotion and attunement to the spirits. You use your Wisdom whenever a spell refers to your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your Wisdom modifier when setting the saving throw DC for a shaman spell you cast and when making an attack roll with one.

Extra Attack

You can attack twice, rather than once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn.

Potent Spells

You may add your Wisdom modifier to one damage roll of any Shaman spell you cast.

In addition, you learn an additional cantrip of your choice from the shaman spell list. It does not count against the number of cantrips you know.

Summon Totem

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to conjure a totemic pole out of thin air. As a bonus action, you summon a spirit totem at an non-occupied square within 30 feet of you. A spirit totem disappears if you end your turn with it being more than 30 feet away from you or when you dismiss it on your turn (no action needed). You can have up to three spirit totems active at any time. When you summon a spirit totem while you already have the maximum number of totems on the field, the oldest spirit totem is automatically dismissed.

You have a +1 bonus to your AC whenever you are within 10 feet of any of your totems.

Primal Fortitude

At 2nd level, your might and power prepares yourself for any wounds and injuries you might get inflicted with while adventuring. Your hit point maximum increases by 2, and it increases by 1 again whenever you gain a level in this class.

In addition, whenever you take damage, you gain a fortitude charge, up to a maximum of three. When you deal damage with a weapon or a cantrip, you consume all fortitude charges to deal an additional 1d4 damage for each charge consumed. If the target is within 10 feet of any of your totems, you instead deal 1d6 damage for each charge consumed.

Protective Surge

At 6th level, the spirit totems can protect you in a pinch, weakening the force of blows on you. As a reaction to taking damage, you can destroy a totem within 10 feet of you to gain resistance to the triggering damage type against that attack.

After using this feature, the number of totems you can have active at any one time is then reduced by one until you finish a short or long rest. You cannot use this feature when the number of totems you can have active at any one time is equal to one.

Improved Totem

At 10th level, the spirits residing in your totem becomes more powerful. Whenever you are within 10 feet of any of your totems, you gain a bonus of +1 to your weapon attack rolls and saving throws.

Animal Guardians

At 14th level, the spirits residing inside the totemic pole is able to lash out from the totem. While you are within 10 feet of a totem, you may make the area within 10 feet of that totem lightly obscured for creatures other than you as spirits are released from the totem and surround the nearby area.

When the creature enters the area around a totem that has its spirits released for the first time on a turn or starts its turn there, the spirits lash out at the creature. The creature must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, the creature takes 2d8 damage and having its speed halved, taking half as much damage and not having its speed halved on a successful save. The damage dealt is of the same type as the one chosen for the Infused Soul feature.

Ancestral Guidance

At 2nd level, an ancestral spirit possesses up to two weapons of yours, engulfing it in ectoplasm and ghastly energies to improve your abilities in battle.

Whenever you finish a long rest, you can touch up to two weapons that you are proficient with. They become your ancestral weapons. You can use your ancestral weapons as spellcasting foci and while holding your ancestral weapons, your speed increases by 10 feet, increasing to 20 feet at 10th level. This lasts until you choose to change your ancestral weapons during a long rest.

Ancient Possession

Also at 2nd level, the ancestor can lend you its spectral powers by possessing you temporarily. As a bonus action, you can become spectral temporarily. For the next minute, you can move through other creatures and objects as if they were difficult terrain. You take 2d6 force damage if your turn is ended while you’re still inside an object. If you are inside an object when you stop being spectral, your body is expelled to the nearest unoccupied space that you can occupy and take force damage equal to twice the number of feet you moved.

After using this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Phantom Massacre

At 6th level, your ancestral spirits increase in power, gaining the ability to mark creatures you hit. Once per turn, you can deal an extra 1d6 psychic damage to one creature you hit with a weapon or a cantrip and mark the creature for the next minute. If the creature is already marked, you instead deal 2d6 psychic damage, increasing to 3d6 at 14th level. When you mark a creature, any marks on other creatures disappear.

Poltergeist

At 10th level, you become closer with your ancestral spirits, increasing the power of the marks. When you consume a mark to deal damage to a creature, you may choose to become spectral and jump into the creature if you are within 30 feet of it. You disappear from the field as you enter the creature's body as a ghost. At the start of your next turn or when the creature dies, you reappear at an unoccupied space within 10 feet of the creature.

After using this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

In addition, you can cast the spell speak with dead at will without expending a spell slot.

Secret of the Ancients

Beginning at 14th level, you are completely confident in your ability to become spectral. While your Ancient Possession feature is active, if you haven't moved this turn, and you end your turn inside an object, the turn will not count against the time left as spectral. You can extend the duration in this matter up to a maximum of 1 hour.

In addition, you now do not take force damage from ending your turn while you’re still inside an object if you haven't moved this turn.

Natural Rhythm

At 2nd level, you can feel the rhythm of your surroundings from your head to your toes. You gain proficiency with warhammers and longswords. You also gain proficiency with a drum. For you, a drum also counts as a shield and a spellcasting focus. Whenever you wield a shield in one hand and a weapon in the other, the shield can also be used as a drum.

Song of the Forest

At 2nd level, you can use your drum to beat the rhythm of your surroundings to empower your allies. As an action while holding a drum, you may begin to make the spirits play a song on your drum, granting a beneficial effect to yourself and all allies within 30 feet of you. You and your allies must be able to hear your drum to gain its benefits. You may choose one of the following songs to play:

• Aria of the Lake: You can add an additional bonus of +1 to any saving throws you or an ally must roll.
• Storm Chant: Whenever you or an ally attacks with a wielded weapon, the weapon’s damage type is thunder instead of the weapon’s normal damage type.
• Hymn of the Wind: You and your allies’ movement speed gain a bonus of +10 feet. The ally’s bonus is maintained to end of their turn even if they move out of the song’s radius during their turn.
• Earthen Anthem: When you or an ally roll a 1 on a damage die for a weapon attack, one can reroll the die and must use the new roll, even if the new roll is a 1.

The song ends if you are no longer carrying or wielding the drum. You may end your song at any time as a bonus action. While playing a song, your drum is considered occupied, and you cannot attack an enemy with the drum.

Spiritual Beat

At 6th level, you can invigorate your song, granting additional bonuses to your allies. If you are currently playing a song, you may boost the sound of your song as an action for a minute, granting an additional beneficial effect to yourself and all allies within 30 feet of you depending on the song currently playing:

• Aria of the Lake: When you or an ally must make a Wisdom or Constitution saving throw, you and your allies gain advantage on the saving throw instead of adding a flat +1 bonus.
• Storm Chant: Whenever you or an ally is hit by a melee attack, the attacker takes 1d6 lightning damage.
• Hymn of the Wind: You and your allies' movement does not provoke opportunity attacks while in range. You and your allies also gain advantage on the ability check when you take the Shove action.
• Earthen Anthem: Whenever you or an ally roll the maximum number on any of their damage dice when making a weapon attack, you may roll an additional die and add it to the damage dealt. You can only add a single damage die to a damage roll in this manner.

After using this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Worldly Heart

At 10th level, your beat of the drum adds vitality to your allies, keeping them in battle for longer. As an action, you may beat your drum in a special rhythm. Allies within 30 feet of you that has 0 hit points is healed for an amount equal to your Shaman level + your Wisdom modifier.

After using this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Aura of Balance

At 14th level, your drum playing abilities improves. While the Spiritual Beat feature is active, you and your allies also gain a resistance to a damage type depending on the song played:

• Aria of the Lake: You gain resistance to piercing damage.
• Storm Chant: You gain resistance to lightning and thunder damage.
• Hymn of the Wind: You gain resistance to slashing damage.
• Earthen Anthem: You gain resistance to bludgeoning damage.

Bewitching Jinx

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to place a jinx on someone. As a bonus action, choose one creature you can see within 60 feet of you. You curse the target for the next minute. Until the curse ends, you gain the following benefits:

• You have advantage on spell attack rolls against the cursed target.
• While cursed, the target has disadvantage on saving throws against your shaman spells and abilities.

After using this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Occult Codex

Beginning from 2nd level, you gain additional tome spells at the Shaman levels noted in the table below. Once you gain a tome spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you have a domain spell that doesn't appear on the Shaman spell list, the spell is nonetheless a Shaman spell for you.

Enchanting Grace

Beginning at 6th level, your power to entrance people has improved drastically, becoming almost flawless. When you interact with a humanoid for at least 1 minute, you have advantage on any subsequent skill checks to lie, confuse or otherwise mislead the target for your own benefit.

You also become immune to other creature's attempts to do the same to you. You have immunity to the charmed and frightened conditions.

Poppet Master

At 10th level, you gain the ability to create a poppet that is bound to a nearby enemy. As an action, you can target a humanoid creature you can see within 60 feet. You curse that target, creating a doll within 5 feet of you that resembles this creature that lasts for 1 minute or until that creature dies. The poppet doll uses the target's statistics. Whenever the doll is attacked, the creature that the doll resembles takes half damage from attacks that hit the doll and is subject to all effects that effect the doll.

After using this feature twice, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Witch’s Brew

Beginning at 14th level, whenever you use the Jinx feature, you can choose up to two creatures you can see within 30 feet of you to be cursed instead. You cannot target both a creature and a doll that resembles the same creature.

In addition, when a creature rolls a 1 on any saving throw against one of your spells, the target must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell DC. On a failed save, they are inflicted with curse as described in the Jinx feature.

Elemental Bending

Beginning at 2nd level, you gain the limited ability to bend the elements through the spirits of nature. As a bonus action, you can invoke an element of your choice, gaining an effect based on the element invoked:

• Earth: You grant a creature within 30 feet of you temporary hit points equal to 1d8 + your Wisdom modifier until the start of your next turn, as a barrier of stone and rocks envelop the target. The temporary hit points increases by 1d8 at 6th level (2d8), 10th level (3d8) and 14th level (4d8).
• Water: Choose a creature within 30 feet of you. The creature must succeed in a Constitution saving throw against your spell DC or be dazed by a whip of water, becoming incapacitated until the end of its next turn.
• Fire: You create a wave of lava that you send at a creature within 30 feet of you. Make a ranged spell attack. On a hit, the attack deals 2d8 fire damage. The damage increases by 1d8 at 6th level (3d8), 10th level (4d8) and 14th level (5d8).
• Air: Choose a creature within 30 feet of you. The creature must succeed in a Strength saving throw against your spell DC or be restrained by a vortex of air. At the end of each of its turns, a restrained target can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on itself on a success.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your Wisdom modifier (minimum of once). You regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Rune Tablet

Beginning from 2nd level, you gain additional tome spells at the Shaman levels noted in the table below. Once you gain a tome spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you have a domain spell that doesn't appear on the Shaman spell list, the spell is nonetheless a Shaman spell for you.

Rune Tablet Spells

Spell Level	Spells
1st	absorb elements XGE, healing word
2nd	skywrite XGE, heat metal
3rd	protection from energy, meld into stone
4th	watery sphere XGE, elemental bane XGE
5th	mass cure wounds, skill empowerment XGE

Sage of Nature

At 6th level, you gain control on the aspects of nature and can manipulate them as you cast spells. When you finish a long rest, choose a damage type from the following list: acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder. Until the end of your next long rest, when you cast a spell that deals acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder damage, you can choose to substitute that damage type with the chosen damage type.

In addition, you can now speak, read, and write Primordial.

Aspect Burst

At 10th level, you become more controlled at bending the elements, gaining the ability to invoke all four elements at once. When you consume a use of the elemental bending feature to invoke an element, you can choose to invoke all four elements at once. Each element can be targeted at the same target or at different targets.

After using this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest.

Elemental Alignment

Upon gaining 14th level, choose one of the following elements to focus on: Fire, Water, Air or Earth. During a long rest, you can then create a sigil of that element using 1 hour of your time, which can be part of the long rest. You can as an action activate the sigil and cast a spell according to the aligned element without expending a spell slot and without requiring concentration:

• Earth: You cast investiture of stone.
• Water: You cast investiture of ice.
• Fire: You cast investiture of flame.
• Air: You cast investiture of wind.

When the spell ends, you gain a level of exhaustion.

To change your aligned element to one of the other three, you can spend a week and 100 gp worth of materials making rituals to realign yourself to the element of choice.

Star Constellation

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to use the magic of the night sky to conjure a spectral presence resembling a constellation. As a bonus action, you can create a spectral presence resembling a humanoid constellation, hovering in an unoccupied space of your choice within 30 feet of you. This presence is the same size class as you, it is intangible and invulnerable, and it sheds dim light in a 10-foot radius.

While the spectral prescence is within 90 feet of you, you can cause the spectral presence to hover up to 30 feet to an unoccupied space that you can see within 90 feet of you. It can pass through creatures but not objects.

As an action, you can intensify the brightness of the constellation's light, making it shed bright light in a 20-foot radius and dim light for an additional 20 feet. On your subsequent turns, you can dim the light back to normal (no action required). You cannot both dim and intensify the light in the same turn. The light automatically dims if the spectral prescence is more than 90 feet away from you.

When you cast a spell on your turn, you can cast it as if you were in the spectral mind’s space instead of your own if the spectral prescence is within 90 feet of you.

Spatial Diary

Beginning from 2nd level, you gain additional tome spells at the Shaman levels noted in the table below. Once you gain a tome spell, you always have it prepared, and it doesn't count against the number of spells you can prepare each day. If you have a domain spell that doesn't appear on the Shaman spell list, the spell is nonetheless a Shaman spell for you.

Firmament

Starting at 6th level, you can manipulate light around you. When you end your turn while in bright light, you become enrobed in a firmament of stars that distract enemies. Until you take damage, any attack roll made against you has disadvantage unless the creature can sense your prescence by tremorsense, blindsight or truesight.

In addition, you gain advantage on Wisdom (Survival) checks when you can see the night sky above you.

Stella Nova

Beginning at 10th level, when you use your action to intensify the light of the constellation, you can cause the constellation to momentarily erupt with light. Creatures within 20 feet of the constellation must make a Constitution saving throw against your spell DC. On a failed save, a creature is knocked prone and blinded until the end of your next turn.

After using this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Living Constellation

Beginning at 14th level, your mastery of stellar powers become unparalleled. You can as an action change the shape of your constellation, making it resemble and function as a humanoid creature of your choice with a CR equal to or lower than 4. As it is only a constellation, other creatures cannot be fooled into thinking that the constellation is the creature it resembles. While transformed, it takes its turn immediately after yours, and you cannot cast a spell through the constellation while it is transformed. Otherwise, it functions as normal.

The transformation lasts for 1 minute or until your concentration ends (as if you were concentrating on a spell).

After using this feature, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest or until you expend a shaman spell slot.

(R) The Spell can be cast as a Ritual
^SH Spells can be found under Shaman-specific Spells
^XGE Spell is from Xanathar's Guide to Everything
^SCAG Spell is from Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide
^EGW Spell is from Explorer's Guide to Wildemount

Blossom Barrier

5th-level Abjuration (Ritual)

• Casting time: 10 minutes
• Range: Self (30-foot-radius sphere)
• Components: V, M (a glass orb worth 100 gp, which is consumed)
• Duration: 1 hour

You create a 30-foot radius sphere that moves with you for the duration, inside of which blossoms of your choice magically appear and hover.

The dome has the following effects:

• Creatures inside the area can breathe whatever fluid is in the dome at any one time.
• Any air or water that enters the dome is magically clear of any harmful effects such as poison, gas or magical fog.
• A creature cannot become poisoned or diseased while inside the dome. If the creature is already poisoned or inflicted with disease, they ignore any effects caused by the poison or disease until they leave the dome.

Borrowed Life

4rd-level Necromancy

• Casting time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous

You use spiritual energies to vitalize a creature you touch.

The creature regains a number of Hit Points equal to 7d8 + your spellcasting ability modifier. Every 10 minutes, that creature then loses 1 hit point until the creature has lost hit points equal to half the amount healed, rounded down.

At higher levels: When you cast this spell using a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the Healing increases by 2d8 each slot level above 4th.

Call of Ancestors

4th-level Divination (Ritual)

• Casting time: 1 action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S, M (Incense and charcoal together worth at least 25 gp, which the spell consumes)
• Duration: Instantaneous

Your magic and an offering put you in contact with spirits.

The GM tells you a piece of advice concerning a specific goal, event, or activity in the near future. The reply might be a short phrase, a cryptic rhyme, or an omen. You may ask a question to the spirits, but the GM does not have to answer the question. The spell doesn’t take into account any possible circumstances that might change the outcome, such as the casting of additional spells or the loss or gain of a companion.

If you cast this spell two or more times before finishing your next Long Rest, there is a cumulative 25 percent chance for each casting after the first that you get no answer from the spiritual ancestors.

Decompose

3rd-level Transmutation (Ritual)

• Casting time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S, M (a live maggot or dermestid beetle)
• Duration: Instantaneous

You cause organic material you choose within range to instantly decompose into composted humus, producing only the odor of petrichor and ozone. You can affect up to 150 lbs. of material. Living matter, magical items composed of organic materials, and bodies under the effect of a necromancy spell are not affected by decompose.

Decomposed creatures can still be brought back to life by means of the reincarnate, resurrection, or wish spell.

Forest Warden

3rd-level Transmutation

• Casting time: 1 bonus action
• Range: Self
• Components: V, M (a piece of bark and herbs)
• Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes.

A spirit travels inside your body and transform into a mighty treant. You gain 25 temporary hit points, and while transformed, your AC is increased by 2.

While you are a treant, on your turn, if you has not moved yet that turn, you can forfeit your movement speed to do one of the following effects:

• Until the start of your next turn, your melee weapon attacks deal an additional 2d6 bludgeoning damage.
• At the end of your turn, you heal an ally within 30 feet of you for an amount of hit points equal to 1d4 + your spellcasting modifier.
• You have advantage on saving throws until the start of your next turn.

At higher levels When cast at higher levels, the AC increase is raised by 1 for each three levels above 3rd level. In addition, the temporary hit points gained is increased by 5 for each level above the 3rd level.

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1.0-1.4

• See older versions of this document for changelog for these iterations.

2.0 (Revamp)

• Name changed from Occultist to Shaman.
• Slight change in overall class flavor.
• Revamped base class features:
• Spellcasting is granted at level 1 and now also grants the shaman cantrips.
• Cantrips added to Shaman spell list.
• Imbued Weapon renamed to Imbued Soul and now works with ranged weapon attacks and cantrips. It now scales at level 11 and 18.
• Improved Imbued Weapon is removed.
• Granted additional option at level 5: Potent Cantrips.
• Mystical Preparation moved to level 3 and its upgrade to level 11.
• Wilderness Bond replaced by Occult Sight, which is placed at level 7.
• Subclass is now chosen at level 2, granting subclass features at level 6, 10 and 14.
• Features removed from all subclasses due to base class revamp.
• Calling of the Totem: Summon Totem revamped.
• Calling of the Future: Determination and Red Thread of Fate revamped.
• Calling of the Dreams: Sleeping Powder changed.
• Calling of the Coven: Jinx renamed to Bewitching Jinx and changed.
• Calling of the Stars: Syzygy changed.
• Calling of the Sigil: Circle of Aspects changed.
• Calling of the Offering: Blood Letting and Self-offering combined into a single feature, Blood Letting.
• Calling of the Patterns: Interpretation Acuity and Whispers of the Hidden features revamped.

2.1

• Corrected various wordings and errors.
• Reworked the Natural Barrier base class feature.
• Added Lightning Lure to Shaman spell list.
• Changed the Natural Gift spell to accommodate the addition of cantrips to Shaman spell list.
• Calling of the Totem: Changed the Energy Surge feature.
• Calling of the Whispers: Reworked the Phantom Massacre and Umbral Echo features. Umbral Echo renamed to Poltergeist.
• Calling of the Future: Changed the Prepared Mind and Precognition features. Switched the level you learn the Fortunes and Disasters feature with the Prepared Mind feature.
• Calling of the Rhythm: Changed the Natural Rhythm feature.
• Calling of the Dreams: Reworked the Lucid Nightmare feature.
• Calling of the Coven: Changed the Witch's Brew feature.
• Calling of the Stars: Changed the Star Constellation feature.
• Calling of the Sigil: Changed the Rune Pillars feature.

Class overall

The class was made to fill out the flavor space of a shaman or a person who dabbles with spirits. Right now the Druid and the Warlock is close, but i feel their flavor doesn't completely fit what I want in a shaman. Mechanically, the Shaman is to a Warlock what a Paladin is to a Cleric, even if the flavor and primary ability of the Shaman fits closer to a Druid. It fits a more spellcasting-heavy half-caster (like Artificer), at least compared to Rangers and Paladins, which is more like spell-supported martial classes, where focus is on Hunter's Mark and Divine Smite, respectively.

The playstyle of the Shaman has two facets: The martial half-caster with Extra Attack should remind you of the Shaman of WoW, specifically Enhancement Shamans, in terms of flavor, fulfilling a gish fantasy. Meanwhile, the half-caster with Potent Cantrips should be reminiscent of a tankier Warlock or Artificer, fulfilling more of a caster-style fantasy.

Possible Builds

The shaman class is built with these possible weapon/cantrip builds in mind:

New Spells

Design notes WIP

Totemist

The bulky brute of the team. The tankiest subclass due to Primal Fortitude both increasing hit points and AC along with Protective Surge. Gains more damage when you get damaged. Uses a spirit totem to gain defensive bonuses and soft area control. Is weak to effects that push you away from your spirit totems.

Works best with Extra Attack due to features synergizing with weapon attacks.

Medium

The sneaky assassin. Works well with two-weapon fighting. Very slippery and fast. Has a lot of engaging and disengaging power by becoming incorporeal. Most of power level should be in Phantom Massacre, a pseudo-Sneak Attack that increases in power when continuing to attack the same target.

Works best with Extra Attack due to features synergizing with making multiple attacks on a turn.

Spiritualist

The buffing support. Has team auras that can be amplified for a short duration. Also has an additional feature that heals fallen allies. Weaknesses are the silence spell along with abilities that punish grouping together, since features require grouping of party to function optimally.

Works well with both Extra Attack and Potent Cantrips, with a slight edge to Extra Attack due to some features involving weapon attacks.

Witch

The standard caster. Gains a curse quite similar to Hexblade Warlock. Most features are Witch-like in flavor. Spell list has very standard witch flavor, with a lot of fire damage spells and enchantment spells along with Find familiar.

Works best with Potent Cantrip due to features focusing on spell attacks and saving throws.

Sage

The flexible offensive caster. Very bonus action-heavy, as its main feature uses bonus actions. Has four different bonus action options, granting a lot of flexibility. Higher level features improve flexibility by increasing options when casting spells and using the main feature. Spell list has a lot of elemental-themed spells along with a few healing spells.

Works best with Potent Cantrip due to features focusing on spell damage and Wisdom.

Astrologican

The "pet" caster. Gains a Echo Knight Fighter or (UA) Archivist Artificer style "clone" that is an extension from you, even granting you the ability to cast spells from the clone. Features power up your clone. Utility-focused. Spell list is a mix of detection spells and recurring damage spells.

Works well with both Extra Attack and Potent Cantrips, with a slight edge to Potent Cantrips due to features improving spells slightly.