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
• 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 light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) a quarterstaff or (b) any simple weapon
• (a) an explorer's pack or (b) a priest's pack
• leather armor and a shamanic focus

Cantrips Known

At 1st level, you know three cantrips of your choice from the shaman spell list. You learn additional shaman cantrips of your choice at higher levels, 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 level those slots are; 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, at 5th level, you have two 3rd-level spell slots. To cast the 1st-level spell cure wounds, you must spend one of those slots, and you cast it as a 3rd-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 + your half shaman level, rounded up (minimum of one spell). A spell you choose must be of a level no higher than what's shown in the table's Slot Level column for your level.

You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a short or long rest. Preparing a new list of shaman spells requires time spent communing, bargaining, or making deals with the spirits in order to gain access to a different set of spells.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your shaman spells, as your spells come from your ability to contact the spirits. You use your Wisdom whenever a shaman 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.

Mana Siphon

You draw mana from living beings. As a bonus action, you can choose a creature within 30 feet of you, including possibly yourself. If the chosen target is yourself or a willing creature, you or they can expend one hit die, allowing you to gain one mana point.

If the chosen target is an unwilling creature, they must make a Constitution saving throw against your shaman spell save DC. On a failure, they lose one of their hit dice and you gain one mana point.

When you reach certain levels in this class, the maximum amount of hit dice expended or lost increases: 2 at 7th level, 3 at 11th, and 4 at 15th. You gain mana points equal to the number of hit dice expended or lost.

Ancestral Guidance

As an action, you can touch a creature and spend 1 mana point. The target has advantage on the first ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes within the next minute. This rite ends early if you use it again.

Essence Bolt

As an action, you can spend any number of available mana points and make a spell attack roll against a creature of your choice 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 ignores resistance to necrotic damage but does not ignore immunity.

Exhilarate

As an action, you can spend any number of available mana points and choose a creature within 30 feet of you (including possibly yourself). That creature gains 5 temporary hit points, plus an additional 5 temporary hit points for each mana point spent. These temporary hit points fade after 10 minutes.

Ghost Step

As a bonus action, you can spend any number of available mana points. You then teleport to an unoccupied space you can see within a number of feet equal to 10 x the number of mana points spent.

Spear of the Elder

As a bonus action, you can touch a weapon with which you are proficient and spend 1 mana point. For the next 8 hours, you can use Wisdom, instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage rolls of that weapon. The weapon also becomes magical, if it isn’t already. This rite ends if you use it again.

Spectral Armor

As an action, you can spend 1 mana point to don a set of ethereal armor for 1 hour. Your AC becomes 12 + your Wisdom modifier for the duration. You can use a shield and still gain this benefit.

Rejuvenate

As an action, you can touch a creature and expend any number of available mana points. The creature you touch regains 1d4 hit points per mana point expended.

Ebb and Flow

Prerequisite: 5th level

As an action, you can spend any number of available mana points and choose a creature within 30 feet of you. That creature must make a Constitution saving throw against your shaman spell save DC. On a failed save, the target takes 1d6 necrotic damage for each mana point spent, and a creature of your choice within 30 feet of them regains hit points equal to half the necrotic damage dealt.

Fade

Prerequisite: 5th level

As a reaction to being hit by an attack, you can spend 2 mana points to become partially incorporeal, halving the attack's damage against you.

Horrify

Prerequisite: 5th level

As an action, you can spend any number of available mana points. For every 2 mana points spent, you can force one creature within 30 feet of you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your shaman spell save DC. On a failure, a creature is frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Bind Soul

Prerequisite: 9th level

As a reaction to a creature within 30 feet of you dying, you can spend a number of available mana points up to half your mana limit (rounded down) to bind that creature's soul to an object you are carrying. The soul remains bound to that object for 1 week (even if no longer have this rite prepared) or until you use this rite again.

While the soul remains bound to the object, you can use an action to release the soul if the object is still on your person. You immediately gain the number of mana points you initially spent to use this rite.

Vitiate

Prerequisite: 9th level

As an action, you can spend 5 mana points to force a creature within 30 feet of you to make a saving throw against your shaman spell save DC. On a failed save, the creature suffers a level of exhaustion. All levels of exhaustion suffered from this rite are removed upon finishing a long rest.

Back from Beyond

Prerequisite: 13th level

As an action, you can spend 7 mana points and touch the body of a creature that has died within the last 10 minutes. That creature returns to life with 1 hit point and with a level of exhaustion. This rite can’t return to life a creature that has died of old age.

Endure

Prerequisite: 13th level

When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can spend 2 mana points (no action required) to have 1 hit point instead. You can use this rite as a reaction when a creature within 30 feet of you is reduced to 0 hit points to have them have 1 hit point instead by spending 3 mana points.

Beseech the Spirits

Prerequisite: 17th level

As an action, you can spend 9 mana points to beseech the aid of the spirits. You regain an expended spell slot from your Spirit Magic feature.

Calling of the Chieftain Features

Chieftain's Training

When you choose this calling at 2nd level, fallen warriors have taught you how to fight. You gain proficiency with medium armor, shields, and martial weapons.

Spirit Strike

Also at 2nd level, you gain an additional rite. You always have this rite prepared, but it doesn't count against the number of rites you can prepare.

As an action, you can spend a number of mana points up to half your mana limit (rounded up) and make a weapon attack. The attack gains a bonus to the attack and damage rolls equal to the number of mana points spent, as the spirits guide your strike to your target's weak point.

Extra Attack

At 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, when you take the Attack action on your turn.

Blade of the Spirits

At 10th level, your Spirit Strike rite improves. You can use it in place of any weapon attack, instead of as an action. You can only use it once per round.

Ancestral Chant

At 14th level, you can bolster your allies' spirits when you drain mana from others. When you use your Mana Siphon ability, each allied creature within 30 feet of you that can hear you gains temporary hit points equal to the number of mana points gained, unless it was the target of the ability.

Army of a Thousand Fallen

At 18th level, you can summon an army of spectral warriors. As an action, you call upon the army, which surrounds you in a 30-foot radius for 1 minute. When you summon them, and at start of each of your turns for the duration (no action required), you can decide whether they take a Phalanx formation or a Vanguard formation.

• Phalanx. While the army is in this defensive formation, all attacks made against allied creatures within the radius have disadvantage.
• Vanguard. While the army is in this offensive formation, all attacks made against hostile creatures within the radius have advantage.

The army follows you for the duration, and you can dismiss it early as a bonus action. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Calling of the Guide Features

Revenant Companion

When you choose this calling at 2nd level, your spirit companion grows in power, becoming a revenant bound to your will. When you summon a familiar as per your Spirit Companion feature, you can summon this revenant instead. It is friendly to you and your companions, and obeys your commands. See its game statistics in the Revenant stat block, which uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places.

In combat, the revenant 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 1 mana point over the course of a minute. If you already have a spirit from this feature, the first one immediately disappears. It also disappears if you die.

Spirit Coil

Also at 2nd level, you gain an additional rite. You always have this rite prepared, but it doesn't count against the number of rites you can prepare.

As an action, you can spend a number of mana points up to half your mana limit (rounded up) and summon a number of souls that coil around you for 10 minutes or until you use this rite again. For the duration, when you would spend mana points, you can dismiss any number of the souls you summoned in place of spending that many mana points. This rite ends early if all the souls have been dismissed.

Essence Bond

At 6th level, the flow of mana through you and your revenant is linked. You can restore hit points your revenant with any shaman spell that restores hit points even if you normally couldn't, and your revenant can restore hit points to you using its Renew Soul action (which has a range of touch when used in this manner).

Unfettered Souls

At 10th level, your Spirit Coil rite improves. The souls you summon with that rite last for 1 hour, instead of 10 minutes.

Spectral Conduit

At 14th level, you can empower your revenant when you drain mana from others. When you use your Mana Siphon ability, the next time your revenant uses either its Rend Soul or Renew Soul action, it gains a bonus to the damage or healing roll equal to the number of mana points gained. This benefit lasts until the end of the revenant's next turn.

Revenant's Wrath

At 18th level, your revenant hasw grown even stronger under your guidance. It gains the following benefits.

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

Calling of the Healer Features

Soulmending

When you choose this calling at 2nd level, you can call upon the spirit realm to heal you and your allies' wounds. You have a pool of d6's, called soulmending dice, equal to half your shaman level (rounded up).

As a bonus action, you can choose a creature you can see within 60 feet of you and spend any number of available soulmending dice. Roll the spent dice and add them together. The target regains a number of hit points equal to the total.

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

Spirit Well

Also at 2nd level, you gain an additional rite. You always have this rite prepared, but it doesn't count against the number of rites you can prepare.

As an action, you can spend a number of mana points up to half your mana limit (rounded up) and choose a creature within 30 feet of you. A well of mana flows through that creature for 1 minute, or until you use this rite again. For the duration, whenever the target regains hit points, they regain an additional number of hit points equal to the mana points spent.

Shaman's Remedy

At 6th level, you can cure allies of any ailments afflicting them. When you use your Soulmending feature to restore hit points to a creature, you can forgo rolling one of the dice to cure one disease or neutralize one poison affecting the target.

You can forgo rolling multiple dice, curing one disease or neutralizing one poison for each die forgone.

Symbiosis

At 10th level, your Spirit Well rite improves. The rite does not end early if you use it a second time before the duration ends. If you attempt to use it a third time, the oldest use ends.

Cascade

At 14th level, you can redirect the flow of mana to heal your allies. When you use your Mana Siphon feature, one creature of your choice within 30 feet regains hit points equal to the number of mana points gained. You can't choose the target of the ability to gain this benefit.

Soul Link

At 18th level, as an action you can link the souls of two willing creatures within 30 feet of you that are within 30 feet of each other. While linked, they have resistance to damage from all sources, and when one of them regains hit points, the other one regains half as many hit points.

This link lasts for 1 minute or until they are more than 60 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 Medium

Those called to be Mediums are granted the supernatural power of foresight. They are given advice from thousands of generations of predecessors, and are able to sense the ebb and flow of fate. Their purpose is to guide society towards the greatest possible future.

Calling of the Voodooist Features

Surge of Mana

When you choose this calling at 2nd level, you can gather mana directly from the spirit realm. You can spend 1 minute focusing, and afterwards you gain mana points equal to half your limit (rounded up).

Once you do this, you can't do it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Spirit Trance

Also at 2nd level, you gain an additional rite. You always have this rite prepared, but it doesn't count against the number of rites you can prepare.

As a bonus action, you can spend mana points to enter a trance that allows you to cast a shaman spell or use a rite that has a casting time of 1 action or that takes an action to use. The number of mana points spent is equal to the level of the spell slot used to cast the spell (1 mana point for cantrips) or half the number of mana points spent to use the rite (rounded up). This counts as casting a spell as a bonus action.

Totem of Power

At 6th level, the spirits grant you a special focus that empowers your magic, called a totem of power. This Tiny object can be used as a focus for your shaman spells. When you cast a shaman spell through the focus, you can roll a d8 ands add the result to one of the spell's damage rolls.

If you ever lose this totem, you can perform a ritual over the course of a short or long rest to be granted a replacement by the spirits.

Ruination

At 10th level, your Spirit Trance rite improves. You can use immediately after you take your action, instead of as your bonus action, by spending an addtional mana point.

Stolen Power

At 14th level, draining mana from others empowers your own magic. When you use your Mana Siphon ability, the next time you deal damage with a shaman spell before the end of your next turn, you gain a bonus to the damage roll equal to the number of mana points gained.

Reciprocity

At 18th level, you can exchange part of your power to gain equal power from the spirits. When you use your Surge of Mana feature, you can expend a shaman spell slot. If you do so, you do not expend the use of that feature.

Alternatively, you can use your Surge of Mana feature to gain a 5th-level spell slot instead of mana points. If not used before your next short or long rest, this spell slot is lost.

Calling of the Witch Features

Witchcraft

At 2nd level, you become a master of weaving curses of all kinds. You know the bane and hex spells and always have them prepared, but they don't count against the number of shaman spells you can prepare. You can cast either spell without expending a spell slot at the slot level of your Spirit Magic spell slots. Once you cast either spell in this manner, you can't do so again until you finish a long rest, but you can still cast them by expending spell slots as normal.

When you reach 6th level in this class, you also learn the bestow curse and remove curse spells, and can cast them without expending a spell slot as per this feature.

Spirit Hex

Also at 2nd level, you gain an additional rite. You always have this rite prepared, but it doesn't count against the number of rites you can prepare.

As an action, you can spend a number of mana points up to half your mana limit (rounded up) and choose a creature within 30 feet of you. That creature must make a Wisdom saving throw against your shaman spell save DC. On a failure, they are cursed by you for 1 minute or until you use this rite on them again. Choose one of the following effects.

• Hex of Weakness. The target suffers a penalty to all weapon damage rolls equal to the number of mana points spent for the duration of the curse.
• Hex of Lethargy. The target suffers a penalty to its movement speeds equal to 5 x the number of mana points spent for the duration of the curse.
• Hex of Pain. The target takes additional damage from all sources equal to the number of mana points spent of the curse.
• Hex of Stupidity. The target suffers a penalty to all spell damage rolls equal to the number of mana points spent for the duration of the curse.

Torment

At 10th level, your Spirit Hex rite improves. When you use it, you can spend twice as many mana points to choose a second effect that the target suffers from for the duration of the curse.

Evil Eye

At 14th level, you afflict your foes with minor hexes as you drain their mana. When you use your Mana Siphon ability, you can choose to grant the target a penalty to the next ability check they make equal to the number of hit dice lost.

Misery and Misfortune

At 18th level, you can curse a creature's entire existence. As an action, you can choose a creature within 60 feet of you that you can see. That creature takes double damage from all sources until the end of your next turn.

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

Multiclassing

You must have an Intelligence score of 13 or higher, instead of Wisdom, to take a level in this class, or to take a level in another class if you are already a necrolyte.

Proficiencies

A necrolyte's proficiencies are identical to the shaman's, with the following changes.

• You are proficient in Intelligence saving throws instead of Charisma saving throws.
• You remove Nature, Animal Handling, and Survival from the skills available to you at 1st level, and replace them with Arcana, History, and Deception.

Black Magic

A necrolyte's Black Magic feature functions identically to the shaman's Spirit Magic, with the following changes.

• You use Intelligence as your spellcasting ability, instead of Wisdom. You use Intelligence when determining your spell attack modifier and your spell save DC, as well as when calculating the number of spells you can prepare at the end of a short or long rest.

Renamed Features

The following features are renamed, but are not altered in any other way.

• Spirit Companion is renamed to Undead Familiar.
• Mana is renamed to Soul Fragments.
  • Mana points are renamed to soul fragments.
  • Mana Limit is renamed to Fragment Limit.
  • Mana Siphon is renamed to Sever Fragment.
• Rites is renamed to Dark Arts. Rites are renamed to dark arts.
• Shamanic Calling is renamed to Foul Craft.
  • Calling of the Chieftain renamed to Craft of Reaping.
  • Calling of the Guide renamed to Craft of Spirits.
  • Calling of the Healer renamed to Craft of Blood.
  • Calling of the Medium renamed to Craft of Secrets.
  • Calling of the Voodooist is renamed to Craft of Power.
  • Calling of the Witch is renamed to Craft of Curses.
• Inspirit is renamed to Grim Regeneration.
• Walk Among Spirits is renamed to Deathwalk.
• Spiritual Awakening is renamed to Macabre Magery.
  • Awakenings renamed to mageries.
• Idol of Veneration is renamed to Lichdom.

Ability Score Replacement

Any feature from this class that refers to your Wisdom modifier instead refers to your Intelligence modifier.