Shaman

Since the earliest days of civilization, mortals have looked to stars for guidance. Drawing upon the Spirits that move these celestial bodies, Astrologer Shamans can channel the radiant power of the great Constellations that guide the mortal world.

6th-level Astrologer feature

Your connection to Celestial Spirits draws you upward from the ground. You walk 1-inch off the ground and therefore do not leave tracks. You can use this ability to walk over liquids and dangerous surfaces without touching the ground.

10th-level Astrologer feature

You call on celestial Spirits to twist space. When a Large or smaller creature fails its save against Totemic Assault, you can forgo its normal damage and effects to instead teleport it to an unoccupied, flat space you can see within 30 feet.

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

14th-level Astrologer feature

You can channel the full radiant might of the stars above. You learn the crown of stars spell and it counts as a Shaman spell for you. You can cast it once between each long rest, at 7th-level without expending a spell slot.

You can also apply two Constellation effects to a creature when it fails its saving throw against Totemic Assault.

In ancient days, elder Shamans communed with Spirits that desired mortal blood above all. Over time, the Spirits taught the first Blood Priests the dark secrets of blood magic, and in return, they offered these elder Spirits the blood of their foes.

6th-level Blood Priest 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.

10th-level Blood Priest 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.

14th-level Blood Priest 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.

While most Shamans use the power of Spirits to work magic and heal the sick, some twist this connection, binding sinister Spirits to enemies. Known as Curse Binders, these Shamans wield the sinister spiritual power present in the world. Often apprentices of hags or entities from the Shadowfell, they use ancient techniques to afflict their foes with hexes and curses.

6th-level Curse Binder feature

Sinister spirits drain life from your foes. Whenever you deal necrotic damage to a creature with Totemic Assault, you gain temporary hit points equal to half the necrotic damage dealt.

This has no effect on Constructs or Undead creatures.

10th-level Curse Binder feature

Your familiarity with foul magick and sinister curses protect you from similar effects. You gain resistance to both poison and necrotic damage, and have advantage on saving throws to resist the Charmed and Frightened conditions.

Also, when you succeed on a saving throw to resist being Charmed or Frightened, you can use your reaction to target your attacker with Totemic Assault.

14th-level Curse Binder feature

You have reached the apex of sinister shamanism, the ability to create corporeal bodies for the vile Spirits you bind. Once per long rest, you can cast create undead at 6th-level without expending a spell slot or providing the material components.

Any Undead creatures that you create with this feature crumble to dust at the end of your next long rest.

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.

6th-level Elementalist feature

The power you draw from the Elemental Spirits has grown. You bind a Spirit of Wrath, but it does not count against your total number of Bound Spirits. You can also apply the Spirit of Wrath bonus damage to any Shaman spell or feature that deals the damage type of your Elemental Spirit.

If you already had a Spirit of Wrath as one of your Bound Totems, you can bind another Totem Spirit of your choice so long as you also meet the prerequisites for that Totem Spirit.

The Elemental Spirit you attune to infuses your physical body, granting you mystical benefits. You gain the benefits below that correspond to your current Elemental Spirit:

10th-level Elementalist feature

Your power rivals native Spirits of the four Elemental Planes. Once between each short or long rest, you can cast one Elementalist Spells at the level of your Conduit Magic spell slots, without expending a spell slot.

Also, whenever you deal the damage type of your Elemental Spirit, you gain temporary hit points equal to half the damage dealt to a single target.

14th-level Elementalist feature

You wield the primordial elemental power of the most destructive aspects of nature. When attuned to your Elemental Spirit, you also gain the benefits from its corresponding Elder Spirit from the table below.

However, you can still only cast a single Elder Spirit spell of each level per long rest, choosing between the spells of each of your Elder Spirits.

14th-level Elementalist feature

As a bonus action, you can draw Spirits of all four elements into yourself, gaining the following benefits for 1 minute:

This transformation ends early if you are incapacitated or use your bonus action to end it. You can use this feature once per long rest at no cost, after that you must spend a Conduit Magic spell slots to use this feature again.

Many Shamans initially discover their connection to the spirit world when they perform rituals to divine the future. Should these amateur spiritualists pursue this connection they learn to channel spirits as a Far Seer, a Shaman who can glimpse both past and future, and use spiritual power to alter fate.

6th-level Far Seer feature

The Spirits of Fate constantly whisper secrets to you, filling your mind with constant glimpses of the near future. So long as you are not incapacitated you cannot be surprised, and you add your Wisdom modifier (minimum of +1) to initiative rolls.

10th-level Far Seer feature

The future is fickle and constantly changing, but once you glimpse something, it nearly always comes to pass. When you use your reaction to add a Fate Die to a roll and it does not change the outcome of that roll, the Die is not expended.

For example, if you subtracted a Fate Die from an foe's saving throw and it still succeeded on its saving throw, your Fate Die would not be expended.

14th-level Far Seer feature

You can effect Fate in ways that rival elder Spirits, if only in small moments. When a creature you can see within 60 feet finishes its turn, you can use your reaction to expend one of your Fate Dice, and force the creature to repeat that turn.

Anything the creature did on that turn is undone, and it must repeat its turn exactly, taking the same exact course of action, but any dice rolled on that turn are rolled again, and all creatures use the new results.

Since the dawn of time mortal Shamans have used the magic of idolatry to force powerful Spirits to carry out their bidding. Using ancient magic, they bind spiritual entities within Idols, and once bound, focus their spiritual power on friend and foe.

6th-level Idolater 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.

10th-level Idolater 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:

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 (stone) active at a time.

14th-level Idolater 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.

While most Shamans bind many Spirits, Shamans known as Spirit Guides form a single bond with their Geist Spirit. Often the Spirits of departed Shamans, Geists increase in power alongside the Shaman they are bound to, and can even channel the power bound within Totems.

6th-level Spirit Guide 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 seperate.

10th-level Spirit Guide 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.

14th-level Spirit Guide 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.

Serving as the guardians of sacred groves and places of great spiritual power, Spirit Warriors draw on the power of ancient spirits to enhance their physical form. When they allow these incorporeal beings to walk the world through their physical bodies, they gain increased physical and martial abilities.

6th-level Spirit Warrior 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 an attack with your Totemic Weapon as a bonus action.

10th-level Spirit Warrior feature

The warrior Spirits that indwell you fortify you against bodily harm. Whenever you take damage, you can use a reaction to gain temporary hit points equal to the damage taken.

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

14th-level Spirit Warrior feature

You can offer the Spirits full control over you, granting you temporary mystical power. As a bonus action, you can enter a possessed state, gaining the following benefits for 1 minute:

Once you use this feature you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again. If you have no uses left, you can expend a Conduit Magic slot to use this feature again.

Often raised by, or closely with, wild beasts, shamans known as Wild Hearts develop an intense spiritual connection with the wild. This intense devotion, when combined with spiritual power, allows a Wild Heart to transform into the Great Beast, a legendary guardian of the wild animals of the natural world.

6th-level Wild Heart feature

The primeval power of the wilds empowers your Great Beast. When you take the Attack action in Great Beast form, you can make two Natural Weapon attacks instead of one.

Moreover, your Natural Weapon attacks in Great Beast form ignore resistances and immunities to nonmagical attacks and damage.

10th-level Wild Heart feature

Spirits of the wild infuse your Great Beast, shielding it from harm. While you are in Great Beast form, you are resistant to all bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage.

14th-level Wild Heart feature

You have mastered the Great Beast transformation. While in your Great Beast Form, you can use your bonus action to replace one of your Bestial Traits with another.

Long before the gods took notice of mortals, Witch Doctors wandered the land, providing spiritual healing and medicine. Working in tandem with spirits of life, Witch Doctors heal the wounded and grant their allies mystical abilities. These sages are peaceful in nature and can often be found traveling the wilds tending to the spiritual needs of those they meet.

6th-level Witch Doctor feature

Benevolent Spirits protect you as you perform selfless acts. When you use your action to cast a Witch Doctor Spell, or to restore hit points, you gain the benefits of the Dodge action.

10th-level Witch Doctor feature

Your spiritual power grows as you pour yourself out to others. For each Totem that you have bound to a creature other than yourself, you gain a +1 bonus to saving throws, and you gain resistance to one damage type of your choice.

14th-level Witch Doctor feature

Your spiritual practice fills you with an overabundance of life. When you cast revivify, it gains a range of 30 feet, and you do not need to provide its material component. Moreover, when you cast revivify, the target regains hit points equal to twice your Shaman level and can immediately stand up.

Finally, when you would make a death saving throw, you can expend one Conduit Magic spell slot to cast revivify on yourself, gaining the benefits above.

Unknown to many mortals, some of the most powerful spirits of the multiverse are those of dragons who have passed on. In their desire to affect the material plane, for good or ill, these draconic spirits attach themselves to mortals open to the spiritual, transforming them into Wyrmbound Shamans

6th-level Wyrmbound feature

The ferocity of your Draconic Spirit has grown. Whenever you take the Attack action as a Spirit Dragon, you can make two Spectral Slash attacks instead of one. You can replace one of these attacks with your Spirit Breath.

Moreover, when you use your action in Spirit Dragon form to use Totemic Assault, you can make a single Spectral Slash attack as a bonus action on that turn.

10th-level Wyrmbound feature

Your movements are enhanced by the power of your Draconic Spirit. You can take the Dash action as a bonus action. When you do so, opportunity attacks against you have disadvantage.

14th-level Wyrmbound feature

Your physical form can handle the full might of the Draconic Spirit you commune with. You can transform into your Spirit Dragon form at will. Though, you only gain the temporary hit points once per short or long rest, or if you expend a Conduit Magic spell slot to transform again.

14th-level Wyrmbound feature

You can draw on the full power of your Spirit Dragon, if only briefly. Once per long rest, you can transform into an Exalted Spirit Dragon for 1 minute, using the Exalted Spirit Dragon stat block on this page. Each time you transform, you choose if you become Large or Huge.

Finally, while you are in your Exalted Spirit Dragon form, you can cast Shaman spells as normal.