Charisma determines how hard those spells are to resist (see Spells, below). Spirit shamans have the following games statistics.Ībilities: Wisdom determines how powerful a spell a spirit shaman can cast and how many spells she can cast per day. like the druid, she can serve as a party's healer, but she is best in settings where she does not need to devote many of her spell choices to healing and can maximize spell choices that provide offense for the party and aid her companions in battle. No other character matches her ability to study a situation and customize her spell selection for offense, defense, or special purposes. Role: The spirit shaman is only a mediocre melee combatant, but she can hurl spell after spell in a combat situation. Spirit shamans respect druids and get along well with them, but they feel that clerics do not pay sufficient respect to the spirit world, and often form long and bitter rivalries with clerics they meet. As such, they feel it is their duty to advise their comrades and protect them from the wrath of the spirits. Other Classes: Spirit shamans perceive a world that no other class truly understands. While rare groups of barbaric dwarves, elves, or gnomes favor a shamanic tradition instead of a cleric or druid one, these communities are uncommon at best. Races: Halflings, humans, and half-orcs are the races that more commonly give rise to the tribal cultures in which shamans flourish. Sometimes, a young shaman impatient with an overly cautious master strikes out on his own to seek out the knowledge he feels his master is withholding. Typically, when the young spirit shaman is ready, the older shaman then sends her student out to wander the world for a time in order to gain the wisdom and experience necessary to serve as the tribe's spirit shaman on his return.
Taking the youth into her own home, she spends years teaching her student the ways of both the natural world and the spirit realm. When a tribe's spirit shaman feels that the time is right, she chooses a potential successor from among the young folk of the tribe. Still, some spirit shamans give honor to deities of nature such as either Obad-Hai (god of nature) or Ehlonna (goddess of the woodlands).īackground: Spirit shamans are first taught by older shamans.
The typical spirit shaman, like a druid, pursues a mystic spirituality of transcendent union with nature rather than devoting herself to a divine entity. She combines ancestral worship with animal and nature worship. She gains her magical powers from the spirits that inhabit all things, living and dead, animate and inanimate. Religion: A spirit shaman reveres the essence of religion more than the practice. Most spirit shamans are neutral on at least one alignment axis, but it is not uncommon to find a spirit shaman who has become so caught up in the affairs of the living that she has lost her distance from human concerns. Unlike druids, they are more tribal than solitary, and involve themselves in the affairs of their fellows. In addition to spells, spirit shamans gain an increasing array of spirit powers as they advance in level.Īlignment: Spirit shamans, in keeping with the indifference of the spirits, tend toward some measure of dispassion. Their spells, like the druid's, are oriented toward nature and animals. Through their actions, spirit shamans prove the power of their patron spirits and earn prestige and status in the spirit world.Ĭharacteristics: Spirit shamans cast divine spells much the same way druids do, though they get their spells from powerful spirits of nature. Those who revere dark and vengeful spirits promote the chaos and suffering in which their patrons delight. Those who venerate helpful spirits seek to assist people deserving of the spirits' protection. Spirit shamans adventure to advance the causes of whichever spirits they favor. By bargaining with these spirits, the spirit shaman gains power over the natural world and mighty divine magic with which to aid her comrades or smite her enemies.Īdventures: Spirit shamans exist to mediate between the human world and the spirit world and make sure that humans (and dwarves, elves, orcs, and all other humanoid races, of course) respect the spirits as is only right and proper. Her world is filled with powerful, living spirits, some helpful and some malign. Master of the spirit world, the spirit shaman follows a different divine tradition than the cleric or the druid.
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