Optional Rule: Multiclassing

If your group uses the optional rule on multiclassing in the Player's Handbook, here's what you need to know if you choose magus as one of your classes.

Ability Score Minimum. As a multiclass character, you must have at least a Wisdom score of 13 to take a level in this class, or to take a level in another class if you are already a shaman.

Proficiencies Gained. If shaman isn't your initial class, here are the proficiencies you gain when you take your first level as a magus: light armor, shields, and simple weapons.

Spell Slots. You can add the spell slots you gain from the Spirit Magic feature to your spell slots from any other source.

Hit Points

• Hit Dice: 1d8 per shaman level
• Hit Points at 1st Level: 8 + your Constitution modifier
• Hit Points at Higher Levels: 1d8 (or 5) + your Constitution modifier per shaman level after 1st

Proficiencies

• Armor: Light armor, medium armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons
• Tools: None

• Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
• Skills: Choose two from Nature, Insight, Animal Handling, Perception, Survival, Medicine, and Religion

Equipment

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

• (a) a simple weapon and a shield or (b) two simple weapons
• (a) a quarterstaff or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) an explorer's pack or (b) a priest's pack
• hide armor and a shamanic totem

Spirit Magic

You can commune with the spirits to cast shaman spells.

Calling of the Chieftain Features

Chieftain's Training

When you choose this calling at 3rd level, you have been trained to fight by the spirits you commune with. You gain proficiency with martial weapons. Additionally, your hit point maximum increases by 3, and increases by 1 whenever you gain a level in this class.

Spirit Strike

Also at 3rd level, you gain the ability to infuse your strikes with spiritual energy. This feature counts as a spiritual rite, but it doesn't count against the number of rites you know, and you cannot replace it.

As an action, you can spend a number of mana points up to your proficiency bonus and make a weapon attack with one weapon you are currently holding. This weapon attack gains a bonus to the attack roll equal to number of mana points spent. If the attack hits, it deals 1d4 additional necrotic damage for each mana point spent, and the target's hit point maximum is reduced by the necrotic damage taken for 1 minute.

Extra Attack

At 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. You can use your Spirit Strike rite in place of one of these attacks if you so choose.

Ancestral Chant

At 10th level, you can invoke bolstering spirit magic with a chant as you fight. When you use your Spirit Strike rite, you also gain a pool of temporary hit points equal to twice the amount of necrotic damage the target takes. You can divide these temporary hit points among any creatures of your choice within 30 feet of you that can hear you, including possibly yourself.

Army of a Thousand Fallen

At 14th level, you can call upon the spirits of fallen warriors to briefly aid you in combat. As an action, you can call upon an army of spirits for 1 minute. The army appears in a 30-foot radius around you for the duration, and moves with you. The army is incorporeal and takes up no space.

When you call upon the army, it takes a formtion of your choice from the options listed below. As a bonus action on your turn while the army is active, you can change the army's formation.

Phalanx. The spirits take a defensive position around all your allies. All attacks against allied creatures within the radius have disadvantage. Additionally, if a creature makes an attack against an ally within the radius, and it is also within the radius, it takes 2d8 necrotic damage.

Vanguard. The spirits take an offensive position in the area around you. All hostile creatures who start their turn in the radius take 2d8 necrotic damage. Additionally, all attacks against hostile creatures within the radius have advantage.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Calling of the Guide Features

Guardian Spirit

When you choose this calling at 3rd level, a guardian spirit follows you at all times. It is friendly to you and your companions, and obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the Guardian Spirit stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places.

In combat, the spirit shares your initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately after yours. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you take a bonus action on your turn to command it to take another action. That action can be one in its stat block or some other action. If you are incapacitated, the spirit can take any action of its choice, not just Dodge.

If the spare the dying spell is cast on it, it regains 2d6 hit points. If it dies, it disappears, and you can resummon it by spending 2 mana points over the course of a minute. At the end of the minute, it reappears with all its hit points restored.

At the end of a long rest, you can resummon the spirit or summon a new spirit without expending mana points. If you already have a spirit from this feature, the first one immediately disappears. It also disappears if you die.

Spirit Swarm

Also at 3rd level, you gain the ability to summon a swarm of lesser spirits. This feature counts as a spiritual rite, but it doesn't count against the number of rites you know, and you cannot replace it.

As an action, you can spend a number of mana points up to your proficiency bonus to manifest 2 spirits for each mana point spent. They hover around you in your space. While these spirits surround you, you gain the following benefits.

• When you take damage, you can dismiss one of the spirits as a reaction to halve the attack's damage against you, as you have the spirit absorb some of the attack's damage.
• When you deal damage with a weapon, spell, or rite, you can dismiss one of the spirits to deal additional damage equal to your Wisdom modifier, as you imbue the attack with the spirit's energy.

This rite ends when all of the spirits are dismissed, after 10 minutes, or until you use this rite again.

Essence Bond

At 6th level, you have formed a spiritual bond with your guardian spirit. If both you and the spirit are within 5 feet of a creature and both of you aren't incapacitated, you both have advantage on attack rolls against that creature.

Additionally, the spirit can use its Renew Soul action on you if you are within 5 feet of it.

Unfettered Souls

At 10th level, you can summon your spirit swarm around others. When you use your Spirit Swarm rite, instead of gaining the benefits yourself, you can choose a creature within 30 feet of you to gain the benefits of the rite, using your Wisdom modifier where needed.

Lethal Spirit

At 14th level, your guardian spirit becomes more powerful, and thus, more deadly. It gains the following benefits.

• The damage of the spirit's Rend Soul increases to 1d10 + PB necrotic damage.
• The hit points restored by the spirit's Renew Soul increases to 5d4 + PB.
• Whenever the spirit uses its Vex, the attacker takes necrotic damage equal to 1d4 + your Wisdom modifier.

Calling of the Healer Features

Spirit Mark

When you choose this calling at 3rd level, you gain the ability to mark a creature's soul to greater heal them. This feature counts as a spiritual rite, but it doesn't count against the number of rites you know, and you cannot replace it.

As a bonus action, you can spend a number of mana points up to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down) and manifest a spirit mark on a creature of your choice within 30 feet of you. The mark lasts for 1 minute, until you end it early as a bonus action, or until you use this rite again.

When you roll dice to restore hit points to a creature with your spirit mark, you roll 1 additional die for each mana point spent. Only the creature with the mark benefits from this additional healing.

Soulmending

Also at 3rd level, you have a reserve of restorative magic. You have a number of d6's, called soulmending dice, equal to half your shaman level (rounded up).

As an action, you can choose a creature within 60 feet of you and spend a number of soulmending dice up to half your maximum (rounded down). Roll the spent dice and add them together. The target regains a number of hit points equal to the total + your Wisdom modifier.

    You regain all expended soulmending dice when you finish a long rest.

Healer's Remedy

At 6th level, you can start to cure serious ailments. You have a number of uses of this feature equal to your proficiency bonus. As an action, you can expend a use of this feature and touch a creature. You can choose to cure one disease or neutralize one poison affecting the target, or you can end one effect on them that is giving them one of the following conditions: blinded, charmed deafened, frightened, paralyzed, poisoned, or stunned.

You can expend multiple uses at once, curing one disease, neutralizing one poison, or ending one of the listed conditions for each use expended. As part of the action you use to use this feature, you can spend soulmending dice to not expend uses of this feature; one use for each die spent.

You regain all expended uses of this feature when you finish a long rest.

Dualistic Mark

At 10th level, you can manifest more than one spirit mark. When you use your Spirit Mark rite, you can use it again on a second creature without the first mark immediately ending. If you attempt to create a third mark, the oldest mark ends. A creature can only benefit from one mark at a time.

Soul Link

At 14th level, you can tether the souls of two creatures together. As an action, you can choose two allied creatures that are both within 30 feet of you and within 30 feet of each other. For the next minute, when one of those creatures regains hit points, the other creature regains the same amount of hit points.

Additionally, when one of the creatures takes damage, the other creature can use their reaction to prevent half the damage. They then take damage equal to the amount they prevented.

This effect ends if they are ever more than 30 feet away from each other. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Calling of the Oracle Features

Spirit Omen

When you choose this calling at 3rd level, you gain the ability to read omens from the spirits. This feature counts as a spiritual rite, but it doesn't count against the number of rites you know, and you cannot replace it.

As a reaction when you or another creature within 30 feet of you makes an attack roll, ability check, or saving throw, you can spend a number of mana points up to half your proficiency bonus (rounded up). When you do so, roll a number of d4's equal to the number of mana points spent. The total rolled is then added to or subtraced from (your choice) the triggering roll.

Spiritual Guidance

Also at 3rd level, the spirits begin to guide you in everyday life. Whenever you finish a short or long rest, you can gain one skill or tool proficiency of your choice. You lose this proficiency when you use this feature to choose a different proficiency that you lack.

Vision Quest

At 6th level, you can see visions while you rest. When you finish a long rest, you can cast the clairvoyance spell without expending a spell slot and without material components.

When you reach 14th level in this class, you can instead cast the scrying spell in this manner.

Auspices

At 10th level, the omens you read are increasingly tipped in your favor. When you use your Spirit Omen rite, you can reroll one of the dice once. You must use the new roll.

Prophetic Lore

At 14th level, you can learn a great deal of knowledge about the future by asking the spirits for it. Over the course of a minute, you can perform a ritual and learn one of the following pieces of information of your choice.

• The exact location of a creature or group of creatures that you specify, regardless of the plane you or they are on.
• The specific repercussions of an action or event that will or might take place within the next year or that has occurred5 within the last 100 years.
• The answer to one question not listed, such as: "Why did the king declare war with the elves?" If the question cannot be answered factually, then you hear no answer.

Once you use this feature, you can't use it again for 7 days.

Calling of the Voodooist Features

Spirit Focus

When you choose this calling at 3rd level, you gain the ability to channel large amounts of magic at once. This feature counts as a spiritual rite, but it doesn't count against the number of rites you know, and you cannot replace it.

Immediately after you use an action or bonus action on your turn, you can use this rite to cast a shaman spell with a casting time of 1 action as a free action. If you do so, you must spend mana points equal to the level of the spell (1 point for a cantrip). Alternatively, you can choose to use a rite that takes 1 action to use, in which case you must spend mana points equal to half the amount of mana points you spend for the rite (rounded up).

You can only use this rite once a round.

Surge of Mana

Also at 3rd level, you can use mana to wield your spirit magic, and use your spirit magic to recover mana.

Mana Surge. As a bonus action, you can expend one shaman spell slot and gain a number of mana points equal to the slot's level.

Spell Surge. As a bonus action, you can expend mana points to create a spell slot. The Spell Surge Conversion table shows the cost of creating a spell slot of a given level. The created spell slots vanish when you finish a short or long rest. They count as shaman spell slots for you.

These slots can be of any level, not just the level shown in the Slot Level column of the Shaman table. To cast a spell using these slots, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher.

Voodoocraft

At 6th level, you can empower your spiritual magic through concentration. When you expend a spell slot to cast a spell of 1st level or higher as an action, you can choose to gather power for it. When you do so, you do not cast the spell, and instead must concentrate on it until you use your action on your next turn to cast the spell. When you do this, the spell is cast as though you had expended a spell slot of one level higher to cast it.

Alternatively, you can use this feature when you use a rite as an action. You must concentrate on the rite (as if you were concentrating on a spell) until you use your action on your next turn to use the rite. When you do this, the rite acts as though you had spent 1 additional mana point to use it.

You have a number of uses of this feature equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded down), and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Focused Voodoo

At 10th level, you can channel more powerful amounts of spiritual magic. When you use your Spirit Focus rite to cast a spell of 1st-level or higher or to use a rite, you can use your Voodoocraft feature on the spell or rite.

Spiritual Contemplation

At 14th level, you can focus on multiple magical effects at once. You can now concentrate on two spells or abilities that require you to concentrate. However, while you concentrate on two such effects simultaeneously, you can't take reactions, you have disadvantage on all saving throws except to maintain concentration, and all attacks against you have advantage.

Additionally, when you are concentrating on two effects and your concentration on either effect is broken, you must make a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, you are stunned until the end of your next turn.

Calling of the Witch Features

Spirit Hex

When you choose this calling at 3rd level, you gain the ability to curse your targets. This feature counts as a spiritual rite, but it doesn't count against the number of rites you know, and you cannot replace it.

As an action, you can spend 2 mana points and choose a creature within 30 feet of you. The chosen creature must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, it is cursed, suffers one of the following effects of your choice for the next minute. At the end of each of its turns, it can remake the saving throw, ending the effect on a success. This effect immediately ends if you use this rite again.

• Hex of Weakness. The creature suffers a penalty to Strength saving throws and attack rolls using Strength equal to the number of mana points spent.
• Hex of Lethargy. The creature suffers a penalty to Dexterity saving throws equal to the number of mana points spent. It also has its speed reduced by an amount of feet equal to 5 x the number of mana points spent.
• Hex of Pain. The creature suffers a penalty to Constitution saving throws equal to the number of mana points spent. It also takes additional necrotic damage equal to the number of mana points spent when it takes damage; this damage can only be dealt once per round.
• Hex of Foolishness. The creature suffers a penalty to Wisdom saving throws and ability checks equal to the number of mana points spent.
• Hex of Stupidity. The creature suffers a penalty to Intelligence saving throws equal to the number of mana points spent. It also has its spell save DCs and spell attack rolls reduced by an amount equal to the number of mana points spent.
• Hex of Revulsion. The creature suffers a penalty to Charisma saving throws and ability checks equal to the number of mana points spent.

When you use this rite, you can spend additional mana points. The maximum number of mana points you can spend for this rite, including the first two mana points, is equal to your proficiency bonus.

Black Magic

Also at 3rd level, you can use your magic to harm other creatures. Once per round when you deal damage to another creature with a shaman spell or rite, you can deal additional necrotic damage to the creature equal to your proficiency bonus.

Unto The Grave

At 6th level, your dark magic is more lethal than most. When you roll one or more dice to deal necrotic damage to a creature, you can choose to instead use the highest number possible for each die.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

Scourge

At 10th level, you can curse creatures for longer periods of time. When you use your Spirit Hex rite, instead of increasing the penalty, you can spend mana points to increase the duration. For each mana point spent in this way, the rite's duration increases by one time increment, starting at 1 minute and increasing to 10 minutes, then 1 hour, then 8 hours, then 1 day, then 1 week. You can still only spend mana points for this rite up to your proficiency bonus, and you must spend at least 1 mana point to increase the penalty.

For example, if you spend 4 mana points to use Spirit Hex, you can grant the target a -4 penalty for 1 minute, a -3 penalty for 10 minutes, a -2 penalty for 1 hour, or a -1 penalty for 8 hours.

Witch's Eye

At 14th level, you can use your supernatural gaze to peer at those who carry your curse. You know the distance and direction to creatures you have cursed with a spell or feature if they are on the same plane as you, and creatures you have cursed don't gain the benefits of being hidden from you.

Essence Bolt

As an action, you can spend a number of mana points up to your proficiency bonus to make a ranged spell attack against one creature within 60 feet of you. On a hit, the creature takes 1d4 necrotic damage, plus an additional 1d4 necrotic damage for each mana point spent. This damage cannot be reduced in any way, as it harms the soul and not the body. It does not ignore immunity.

Ethereal Armor

As a bonus action, you can spend 1 mana point to don a spiritual set of armor. Your base AC then becomes 13 + your Wisdom modifier for 1 hour. You can wield a shield and still gain this benefit.

Exhilarate

As a bonus action, you can touch a creature and spend a number of mana points up to your proficiency bonus. For each mana point spent, the target gains 5 temporary hit points. These temporary hit points fade after 1 hour.

Familiar Spirit

As an action, you can spend 1 mana point to cast the find familiar spell without expending a spell slot. When you cast find familiar in this way, the familiar is an undead instead of a beast. This version of the spell conjures a ghostly familiar.

Horrifying Visage

As an action, you can spend 2 mana points to summon the visage of a spirit in an unoccupied space within 30 feet of you. Each creature of your choice within 10 feet of the visage that can see it must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failure, a creature is frightened until the end of your next turn. The visage then disappears.

When you use this rite, you can spend additional mana points, increasing the radius of the aura by 5 feet for each mana point spent beyond the first two. The maximum number of mana points you can spend for this rite, including the first two mana points, is equal to your proficiency bonus.

Rejuvenate

As an action, you can spend a number of mana points up to your proficiency bonus and touch a creature. For each mana point spent, the target regains 1d8 hit points.

Shamanic Ceremony

When you cast a shaman spell of 1st-level or higher, you can spend mana points equal to twice the spell's level instead of expending a spell slot to cast the spell as a ritual (even if you normally aren't able to). The spell is cast at its lowest level.

The maximum amount of mana points you can spend for this rite is equal to half your shaman level, rounded up (minimum of 2 mana points).

Soulsight

As a bonus action, you can spend 1 mana point to open your awareness to souls and peer into the spirit realm. Until the start of your next turn, you know the distance direction to all creatures that have a soul within 60 feet of you, and you can see into the Ethereal Plane out to the same range for the duration.

Spear of the Elders

As a bonus action, you can spend 1 mana point and bind spiritual energy to one weapon of your choice that you are holding. For the next 8 hours, you can use your Wisdom, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls of that weapon.

You can spend 1 additional mana point to grant this benefit to a second weapon you are holding.

Spiritual Ward

As an action, you can spend 2 mana points to manifest a spiritual ward within 30 feet of you. The war lasts for 1 minute. When an allied creature takes damage while within 10 feet of the ward, the damage they take is reduced by 5.

When you use this rite, you can spend additional mana points, increasing the damage prevented by 5 for every 2 mana points spent beyond the first two. The maximum number of mana points you can spend for this rite, including the first two mana points, is equal to your proficiency bonus.

Undying Presence

As an action, you can spend 2 mana points, and for the next minute, creatures of your choice within 10 feet of you have advantage on death saving throws, and do not suffer an additional unsuccessful death save from critical hits. This rite ends early if you are incapacitated or die.

Wail of the Dead

As an action, you can spend 2 mana points to let out a wail of pain and anguish. Every creature within 15 feet of you that can hear you must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, a target takes 1d6 necrotic damage.

When you use this rite, you can spend additional mana points, increasing the necrotic damage dealt by 1d6 for each mana point spent beyond the first two. The maximum number of mana points you can spend for this rite, including the first two mana points, is equal to your proficiency bonus.

Bind Soul

Prerequisite: 5th level
As a reaction when a creature you can see dies within 30 feet of you, you can spend 1 mana point to bind its soul to a Tiny object you are holding or that is on your person.

As an action, you can release a spirit bound in this way by touching the object it is bound to. Doing so allows you to ask the spirit one question, which it answers in a language it knew in life. You hear its answer in your mind. It is in no way obligated to answer directly, though it may not knowingly lie to you.

Death Plague

Prerequisite: 5th level
As an action, you can spend 3 mana points and force one creature of your choice within 30 feet of you to make a Constitution saving throw. On a failure, it is afflicted with a death plague for 1 minute. At the start of each of the target's turn while it is afflicted, it takes 1d6 necrotic damage.

When you use this rite, you can spend additional mana points, increasing the necrotic damage dealt by 1d6 for each mana point spent beyond the first three. The maximum number of mana points you can spend for this rite, including the first three mana points, is equal to your proficiency bonus.