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Shaman Expanded

The Shaman is a Wisdom-based spellcaster that channels
the power of mystical Spirits to devastating effect. Provided here are a multitude of additional options for Shamans:

Shamanistic Feats. The Feats included here allow you to further customize your Shaman and allow other characters to wield a smal portion of a Shaman's spiritual power.

Additional Spiritualities. Included below are six more Spiritualities for Shamans to choose from: Astrologer, Blood Priest, Elementalist, Idolater, Spirit Guide, and Wyrmbound.

Additional Totem Spirits. Bind a multitude of additional Totem Spirits and channel their wondrous powers.

Additional Elder Spirits. Finally, included here are five additional Elder Spirit options for Shamans to choose from: Elder Spirits of Fissure, Inferno, Mystic, Sea, and Storm.

Shamanistic Feats

The Feats here allow all characters to share in the abilities
of the Shaman. If your game uses the optional rule for Feats, they can be taken in place of an Ability Score Improvement:

Additional Spiritualities

The following additional Spiritualities can be made available to the Shaman along with those included in the base class:

Blood Priest Spells

2nd-level Blood Priest Spirituality feature
You always have certain spells prepared at the Shaman levels in the table below. The spells count as Shaman spells for you, but they do not count against the spells you prepare each day:

Blood Totems

2nd-level Blood Priest Spirituality feature
Ancient Spirits have taught you to siphon life-blood and bind its spiritual power to Blood Totems using the rules below:

Bound Totems. You start with a single Blood Totem that does not count against your total number of Bound Totems. However, at the end of a long rest, you can forgo any number of Bound Totems to instead create that many Blood Totems.

Harvesting. When you deal necrotic, piercing, or slashing damage to a creature within 10 feet of you, you can choose to harvest its blood, causing one Blood Totem you are holding to gain hit points equal to half the damage dealt. This ability has no effect on Constructs, Undead, or creatures without blood.

Hit Points. Blood Totems can store up to 25 hit points at one time. If a Blood Totem is at its maximum hit points, you
can expend all its hit points to cast one of
your Blood Priest spells at your Slot Level,
without expending a slot or the spell's
normal material components.

When you finish a long rest, unused hit
points stored within Blood Totems
lose their magic and
are dispelled.

Cruel Implements

2nd-level Blood Priest Spirituality feature
You have learned to use particular weapons to better harvest the life-blood of your foes. You gain proficiency with all melee weapons that deal piercing or slashing damage.

Sanguine Shield

2nd-level Blood Priest Spirituality feature
Whenever you take damage while you are holding a Blood Totem, you can use a reaction to cause it to take the damage in your place. Should this reduce a Blood Totem to zero hit points, you take any remaining damage.

Extra Attack

6th-level Blood Priest Spirituality feature
You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. Moreover, if you use your action to cast a Shaman spell or use Totemic Assault, you can make a single melee weapon attack as a bonus action.

Attacks with your Cruel Implements also count as magical for overcoming resistances and immunities.

Sanguine Curse

10th-level Blood Priest Spirituality feature
Spirits that hunger for mortal vitality empower your magick. When you expend a Blood Totem to cast a Blood Priest spell, you can force the target to make a Constitution saving throw in place of the normal saving throw for that spell. If you have hit points harvested from the target of the spell in that Blood Totem, it makes this saving throw with disadvantage.

Also, when a creature takes damage from Totemic Assault, you can harvest hit points regardless of its distance from you.

Crimson Ascendant

14th-level Blood Priest Spirituality feature
You have stained your soul with the blood of mortals in order to satisfy the hunger of dark Spirits. Whenever you damage a
         creature with a Cruel Implement, hit points you harvest
            for your Blood Totems are no longer halved.

              You also start with three Blood Totems before you
            must forgo Bound Totems to create Blood Totems.

Elementalist

Some Shamans gain their abilities while living near places of raw elemental power: active volcanoes, amongst the sands of blazing deserts, atop frigid mountain peaks, or on the stormy coasts of the ocean. Known as Elementalists, these Shamans learn to draw out the most destructive Elemental Spirits and channel them to devastating effect against their enemies.

Idolater Spells

2nd-level Idolater Spirituality feature
You always have certain spells prepared at the Shaman levels in the table below. The spells count as Shaman spells for you, but they do not count against the spells you prepare each day:

Totemic Idol

2nd-level Idolater Spirituality feature
You have learned to craft powerful Idols. You gain proficiency in mason's tools, and over the course of 1 hour, which can be during a short or long rest, you can craft an Idol. You can only have one Idol. Crafting another destroys all other Idols.

The Idol is a Small stone object with an Armor Class equal to your Shaman Spell save DC and hit points equal to 10 + your Shaman level. It is resistant to non-magical
bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.

As an action, you can plant this Idol on a flat,
unoccupied surface and cast a Shaman
spell with a casting time of one action or
bonus action that requires concentration.
The effect of the spell occurs as normal,
but you do not need to concentrate on it.

If the spell has a target of self, the effect
of the spell is centered on the Idol.

The spell is active until that Idol is
destroyed, or you use your action to
move it. If a target of the spell moves
more than 60 feet away from the
Idol, the effects of the
spell end for it.

Spiritual Vortex

6th-level Idolater Spirituality feature
Your Totemic Idol magnifies your spiritual power. While your stone Idol is planted in the ground, you can target it with your Totemic Assault. In place of its normal effects, all creatures of your choice within 20 feet of the Idol must make a Charisma saving throw or suffer the effects of Totemic Assault.

In addition, while planted, your Totemic Idol is immune to all non-magical bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.

Guardian Idol

10th-level Idolater Spirituality feature
In times of great need, the Spirits within your Totemic Idol will come to your aid. As an action, you can cast the summon construct (stone) spell on your Totemic Idol, bringing it to life. When you do so, the spell gains the following benefits:

• You do not expend a spell slot, but the spell is cast at the level of your Conduit Magic spell slots.
• The Idol replaces the spell's normal material component.
• The spell does not require your concentration.
• You can use Spiritual Vortex on the Guardian Idol.
• The Guardian Idol gains temporary hit points equal to the hit points your Totemic Idol had when you cast this spell.

When this spell ends or your Guardian Idol is destroyed, your Totemic Idol is destroyed along with it, and you can only have a single instance of summon construct active at a time.

High Idolater

14th-level Idolater Spirituality feature
You have mastered the ancient and powerful magic of Idols.
           You can have up to two Totemic Idols at once, though
             each Idol must be crafted individually. They can also
                 both be active at one time, each concentrating on a
                 single spell. You can only have one Guardian Idol.

                    Finally, when one of your Idols or a Guardian
               Idol is destroyed, creatures of your choice within 30
                 feet of it must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw
                          against your Shaman Spell save DC or suffer
                             the effects of Totemic Assault. On a success,
                                  they suffer half damage, but none of the
                                    additional effects.

Totemic Bond

2nd-level Spirit Guide Spirituality feature
You forged a bond with unique Spirit known as a
Geist. Your Geist is friendly to you and your allies,
and it obeys your commands. It uses the Geist stat
block, which uses your Shaman Spell save DC and
your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places.

Conjuring the Geist. During a long rest, you can
perform a 1-hour ritual to conjure your Geist Spirit,
or restore your current Geist to its full hit points. If
the Geist is reduced to 0 hit points it is banished to
the Etheral Plane. As an action, you expend a Conduit
magic spell slot to conjure your Geist, restoring it to its
full hit points in an unoccupied space within 5 feet.

Combat. The Geist acts during your turn. It can move and use its reaction on its own, but it only takes the Dodge action unless you use your bonus action to command it to take one of the actions listed in its stat block, or another action.

Spirit Guide Spells

2nd-level Spirit Guide Spirituality feature
You always have certain spells prepared at Shaman levels
in the table below. They count as Shaman spells for you,
but do not count against the spells you prepare each day:

Spectral Empowerment

6th-level Spirit Guide Spirituality feature
As a bonus action, you can touch your Geist to merge with it and gain the benefits of the spectral passage spell. When the spell ends, you and your Geist instantly separate.

Soul Bound

10th-level Spirit Guide Spirituality feature
The bond you share with your Geist allows you to seamlessly change places. As a bonus action, you can switch places with your Geist so long as it is within 120 feet and you can see it.

You can use this feature as a reaction if you or your Geist takes damage. You switch, and the other takes the damage.

Ethereal Mastery

14th-level Spirit Guide Spirituality feature
You unleash the full power of your Geist. It can fly as normal, and it is always under the effect of the spectral passage spell.

Lastly, when you use Spectral Empowerment, the effect does not require concentration, and you gain resistance to all
    damage except for force, psychic, radiant, and thunder.

Draconic Conduit

2nd-level Wyrmbound Spirituality feature
The Draconic Spirit bound to your soul grants you mystical power. You can speak, read, and write Draconic. Whenever you make a Charisma check to interact with a Dragon, you add your Wisdom modifier (minimum of +1) to your roll.

Totemic Wyrmshape

2nd-level Wyrmbound Spirituality feature
As a bonus action, you can fuse with your Draconic Spirit
to transform into a Spirit Dragon, using the rules below:

Stat Block. Your game statistics are replaced by those in the Spirit Dragon stat block. It uses your Spell save DC and proficiency bonus (PB). While transformed you retain your alignment, personality, hit points, all skill and saving throw proficiencies, and your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores. You also determine its appearance.

Temporary Hit Points. When you transform, you gain temporary hit points equal to your Shaman level, and they last for the duration of your current transformation.

Equipment. Any natural or unrefined equipment you are wearing or carrying, such as objects made of wood, animal parts, or other natural materials, can merge with your Spirit Dragon form. Metal or other highly processed equipment, such as metal weapons or armor, fall to the ground.

Features. You retain the benefits of all features from your class, player race, and other sources, and can still use them if the Spirit Dragon is physically capable of doing so. However, you lose any special senses, unless it also has that sense.

You can still use Totemic Assault and any abilities you gain from your Bound Totems while in your Spirit Dragon form.

Casting Spells. You can't cast spells in your Spirit Dragon form. However, you can maintain concentration on spells or other abilities used before you transformed.

Duration & Uses. You can remain in Spirit Dragon form for 1 minute. Your transformation ends early if you end it as a bonus action or if you are reduced to 0 hit points.

You can transform into a Spirit Dragon once between each short or long rest. If you have no uses left, you can expend a Conduit Magic spell slot to transform again.

Wyrmbound Spells

2nd-level Wyrmbound Spirituality feature
You always have certain spells prepared at the Shaman levels in the table below. The spells count as Shaman spells for you, but they do not count against the spells you prepare each day:

Exalted Spirit Dragon

Large or Huge Dragon

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• Armor Class 15 + PB (Natural Armor)
• Speed 30 ft., fly 60 ft.

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STR	DEX	CON
12 (+1)	20 (+5)	16 (+3)

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• Damage Resistances necrotic, poison; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing from non-magical attacks
• Senses blindsight 20 ft., darkvision 120 ft.
• Languages Draconic

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Ethereal Agility. Whenever the Spirit Dragon makes
an ability check or saving throw that uses Dexterity,
it can add your Wisdom modifier to the result.

Serpentine. The thin, serpentine body of the Spirit Dragon counts as one size smaller for the purposes of carrying capacity, the spaces it can move through, and all features except for the space it occupies.

Actions

Spectral Slash. Melee Attack: Spell Attack Modifier to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 2d6 + WIS necrotic.

Spirit Breath. The Spirit Dragon forces all creatures in a 60-foot line or a 30-foot cone to make a Dexterity saving throw. On a failed save, they suffer the effects of your Totemic Assault. On a success, targets suffer half the damage of Totemic Assault, but not effects.

Totem Spirits

Below are additional Totem Spirits that a Shaman can learn to bind to their will. If a Totem Spirit has a prerequisite, like a Shaman level or Sacred Focus, you can learn that Totem at the same time that you meet any prerequisites it may have.

Totems use your Shaman Spell save DC for saving throws, and your Shaman level for any references to level.

Elder Spirit of the Fissure

Spirits of Fissure are conjured from the realms on the Plane of Earth. They lend Shamans the unyielding power of stone.

Elder Spirit of the Inferno

Spirits of the Inferno are summoned from the great Plane of Fire. They grant Shamans overwhelming destructive power.

Elder Spirit of the Mystic

Spirits of Mystics are souls of powerful Shamans that come to offer aid. They awaken a Shaman's true spiritual potential.

Elder Spirit of the Sea

Spirits of the Sea are called up from the depths of the Plane of Water. They bestow Shamans with frigid ethereal magics.

Elder Spirit of the Storm

Spirits of the Storm are drawn from the great tempests of the Plane of Air. They lend Shamans the chaotic magic of storms.