The

Shaman

The half-orc silently moved
through the forest, her tattoos
shimmering in the moonlight.
Gripping the ancestral war club
of her tribe, she called upon the
spirits of previous champions to
empower her strikes. A cold wind
came over the hobgoblin camp as
the half-orc walked into their midst.
These raiders who had dared to take
lumber from the ancestral forest of her
people would not live to see the dawn.

The hunched-over, elderly halfling
clung to his walking stick as the massive
ogre came barreling toward him. Just before
the monster fell upon him, the elder embraced
the spirit of the Great Beast and shapeshifted into
a supernaturally massive bear. The two collided with
thunderous force, but only one would survive. The eyes
of the great bear flashed with a momentary green light
and as suddenly as it had appeared, an elderly halfling
stood in its place, his eyes glowing with green light.

The thin elf stood on a cliff overlooking the great battle
below. The great dragon had all but decimated the battalion of guards that had come to defend their home. A single man stood and thrust his spear toward the terrifying wyrm, but before the dragon could deflect the blow, the elf unleashed a powerful spirit from within one of her Totems. In an instant, the spirit had enveloped the dragon, temporarily sapping its strength. In its weakened state, the spear pierced the great beast's heart, ending its campaign of terror. The elf made her way back to her solitary cave, content knowing that the town she guarded in secret would be safe for another season.

The three characters above are examples of the spiritual conduits known as Shamans. Using ancient knowledge they are able to bind and channel the power of primal spirits.

Class Features

Quick Build

You can make a Shaman quickly by using these suggestions. First, make Wisdom your highest ability score followed by your Constitution. Second, choose the hermit background. Third, choose the Body as your Sacred Focus and Totem of
    the Bear and Totem of the Mountain as your Totems.

Sacred Focus

In order to channel the supernatural power of spirits without being consumed, Shamans must draw this wondrous power through the strongest aspect of themselves. At 1st level, you choose a Sacred Focus from the options listed below.

Body

You channel spiritual power through your body, bending the spirits to your will with physical might. When you choose this Sacred Focus your hit point maximum increases by 1, and it increases by 1 again each time you gain a level in this class.

Heart

You channel spiritual power into your heart and overwhelm spirits with powerful emotions. When you are forced to make a saving throw to resist the charmed or frightened condition, you gain a bonus to your roll equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Mind

You channel spiritual power through your mind, manipulating the spirits with your wit. Whenever you would make an ability check or a saving throw that uses your Intelligence score, you can choose to use your Wisdom score instead.

Soul

You channel spiritual power through your soul, your serenity soothes spirits and wards you from harm. While not wearing armor or wielding a shield, your Armor Class is equal to 10 + your Dexterity modifier + your Wisdom modifier.

Totems

At 1st level, you learn to bind primal nature spirits into sacred Totems so that you may safely channel their mystical abilities. Any Tiny object of your choice can be a Totem, but most often they are objects reminiscent of the spirit within.

At 1st level, you know two Totems of your
choice from the list at the end of the class.
If a Totem has any prerequisites, you must
meet them in order to learn that Totem.

You learn additional Totems as you gain
Shaman levels, as shown in the Bound Totems
column of the Shaman Table on the page above.

Saving Throws. If a Totem requires a creature to
make a saving throw, the DC is calculated as follows:

Spirituality

The following Spiritualities are available for a Shaman to choose from at 3rd level: the Curse Binder, Spirit Warrior, Wild Heart, or Witch Doctor.

Bestial Adaptations

3rd-level Wild Heart feature
Your time spent in the wild has given you bestial qualities. You gain an Adaptation of your choice from the list below.

You gain another Adaptation at 6th level and 10th level.

Totemic Wild Shape

3rd-level Wild Heart feature
Your connection with the spirits of the wild allows you to take on the shape of the Great Beast, the legendary guardian of all wild creatures. As a bonus action, you can expend a Primal Magic spell slot to transform into the Great Beast.

While you are transformed, you use the Great Beast stat block on the next page. It uses your proficiency bonus (PB) in several places. You determine the appearance of your Great Beast, but this has no effect on its abilities. For the duration of your transformation the following rules apply:

• The Great Beast gains a number of Bestial Traits
  from the list at the end of this Spirituality equal
  to the level of the spell slot expended to transform.
• You use the Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution
  scores on the Great Beast stat block, but you retain
  your Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma scores,
  and all of your skill and saving throw proficiencies.
• You assume the hit points and Hit Dice of the Great
  Beast. When you revert to your normal form, you
  return to the number of hit points you had before you transformed. If the Great Beast drops to 0 hit points,
  you revert to your normal form, and any excess damage carries over to your normal form.
• You can't cast spells, and your ability to speak or take
  any action requiring hands is limited to the capabilities
  of your Great Best form. Transforming doesn't break your concentration on a spell you've already cast, however, or prevent you from taking actions that are part of a spell.
• You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source and can use them if the Great Beast is capable of doing so, including your Totems and Totemic Assault. However, you cannot use any of your special senses unless the Great Beast also has that sense.
• Any equipment you are wearing or carrying merges into your Great Beast form. Equipment that merges with
  the Great Beast form has no effect while transformed.

Your Great Beast form lasts for 1 hour. You then revert
to your normal form unless you expend another Primal Magic slot to extend the duration of your transformation.
You can also revert to your normal form as a bonus action.

Savage Strikes

6th-level Wild Heart feature
When you are in Great Beast form and you take the Bite or Maul action, you can make one additional Bite or Maul attack as part of that action. Attacks in Great Beast form also count as magical for overcoming resistances and immunities.

Fury of the Wild

10th-level Wild Heart feature
You can draw upon your pain to fuel your drive. As a bonus action, you can expend a Hit Die to regain hit points equal to your Hit Die roll + your Wisdom modifier (minimum of 1).

Any hit points you regain from this feature that exceed your maximum hit points become temporary hit points for you.

Apex Predator

14th-level Wild Heart feature
Your Great Beast stands as a legendary guardian of the wild. When you transform into your Great Beast form, its Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution scores are all increased by 2, to a maximum of 20 (this increases both the attack and a damage bonus of the Great Beast's Bite and Maul attack by 1).

Also, the damage of its Bite and Maul increase by 1d6.

Bestial Traits

When you use your Totemic Wild Shape to transform into the Great Beast, you choose Bestial Traits from the following list. These traits last for the duration of that transformation.

Any saving throws are made against your Spell save DC.

Witch Doctor

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.

Witch Doctor Spells

3rd-level Witch Doctor feature
When you gain a level in this class, you can replace one spell from this feature with an abjuration or enchantment spell of the same level from either the Cleric or Shaman spell list.

Shaman Level	Spells
3rd	purify LL, warding bond
5th	beacon of hope, revivify
7th	aura of life, death ward
9th	creation, greater restoration

Life Bearer

3rd-level Witch Doctor feature
You can channel spirits of abundance and life to heal others. As an action, you can touch a creature and cause it to regain hit points equal to 1d8 + your Wisdom modifier. This feature has no effect on undead creatures or constructs.

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

Totemic Blessing

3rd-level Witch Doctor feature
You bind only willing spirits to the Totems you wield. Your Totemic Assault deals radiant damage on a failed save.

You can also bind Totems to your allies, allowing them to make use of their mystical power. At the end of a long rest, you can bind one of your Bound Totems to a willing creature you touch, losing the Totem abilities for yourself. The Totem remains bound to the creature until the end of your next long rest, at which point the power of the Totem returns to you.

At certain Shaman levels, the number of Totems you can bind to other creatures increases: at 6th level (2 Totems), at 12th level (3 Totems), and finally at 18th level (4 Totems).

A single Totem can only be bound to one creature at a time, and a creature can only have a single Totem bound to them.

Mystical Focus

6th-level Witch Doctor feature
You work in tandem with the spirits bound to you,
drawing out more of their power. When you use your
action to cast one of your Witch Doctor Spells, or to
restore hit points to a creature, you can use Totemic
Assault as a bonus action on that turn.

Empowered Blessing

10th-level Witch Doctor feature
Your allies can channel the spiritual power within
your Totems. As an action on its turn, a creature that
has one of your Totems bound to it can use Totemic
Assault, using your Totemic save DC.

Other creatures only gain the benefits from
Totems that improve Totemic
Assault if they are bound to the
Totem that grants those benefits.

Selfless Ward

10th-level Witch Doctor feature
Your spirit is invigorated by the
binding of Totems to your allies.
You gain a +1 bonus to all saving throws for each of
the Totems that you bind to another creature.

This includes any death saving throws you make.

Spiritual Awakening

14th-level Witch Doctor feature
Your spiritual practice has filled you with an abundance
of life-giving energy. As a reaction when a creature you can see makes a death saving throw, you can move up to your full speed and touch the creature, imbuing it with life-giving energy. The creature instantly regains hit points equal to your Shaman level + your Wisdom modifier and can stand up.

You can use this feature on yourself, without requiring your reaction, when you are forced to make a death saving throw.

Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again until you finish a long rest. When you have no uses remaining, you can expend a Primal Magic spell slot to use this feature again.

Totems

Below is the list of Totems that a Shaman can learn to bind spirits to their will. If a Totem 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.

Totem of the Pond

You bind a minor spirit of water that grants you a protective viscous coating. While underwater, you can hold your breath for up to 1 hour, and you have advantage on any ability check or saving throw you make to resist being grappled.

Totem of the Quagmire

Prerequisite: Mind Sacred Focus
You bind a minor spirit of darkness that guards your mind. You are immune to any effect that would read your thoughts, sense your emotions, or detect your alignment, as well as any divination spell that you refuse. Moreover, if a creature makes a Wisdom (Insight) check to ascertain your true intentions or sincerity it does so at disadvantage.

Totem of the Rains

You bind a minor spirit of water that washes poison away like rain. You gain resistance to acid and poison damage, and you have advantage on saving throws to resist being poisoned.

Totem of Twilight

You bind a minor spirit of darkness that grants you enhanced sight in the shadows. You gain Darkvision out to a radius of 120 feet, within which you can see in dim light as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light.

Starting at 9th level, you can see in magical darkness.

Totem of the Waves

You bind a minor spirit of water that allows you to shift like the sea. As a reaction when you take a critical hit, you can to turn it into a normal hit. Once you use this feature you must finish a short or long rest before you can do so again.

When you reach 12th level in this class, you can use this reaction twice between each short or long rest.

Totem of the Whirlwind

You bind a minor spirit of air that speeds your strikes. When you score a critical hit with a melee weapon attack, you can use your reaction to make another attack against that target.

Totem of the Winds

You bind a minor spirit of the air which lends speed to
your steps with a gust of mighty wind. Your walking
speed increases by 5 feet.

This bonus to your speed increases as you gain
Shaman levels; at 5th level (10 feet), 11th level
(15 feet), and finally at 17th level (20 feet).

Totem of the Bloom

Prerequisite: 5th level Shaman, Soul Sacred Focus
You bind a spirit of wild growth that enriches the land around you. You can cast plant growth without expending a spell slot.

Once you cast plant growth in this way, you must finish a short or long rest before you can cast it in this way again.

If you begin a long rest and have not used this feature to cast plant growth since your previous long rest, the 8-hour version of plant growth takes effect on the land immediately surrounding you during the course of your long rest.

Totem of the Eruption

Prerequisite: 5th level Shaman
You bind an elemental spirit that lends you its destructive power. Once per turn, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can expend one of your Primal Magic spell slots to deal additional cold, fire, lightning, magical bludgeoning, or thunder damage (your choice) to the target.

The extra damage is 1d8 for a 1st-level slot, plus 1d8 for each spell level higher than 1st, to a maximum of 5d8.

Totem of Growth

Prerequisite: 5th level Shaman, Body Sacred Focus
You bind a spirit of wild growth that can temporarily increase your size. You can cast the 'enlarge' version of enlarge/reduce as a bonus action, targeting only yourself, without expending a spell slot. This effect does not require your concentration.

Once you cast enlarge/reduce in this way, you must finish a short or long rest before you can cast it in this way again.

Totem of the Grave

Prerequisite: 5th level Shaman
You bind a spirit of undead power which you can summon to your service. You can expend one of your Primal Magic spell slots to cast animate dead, without providing the normal material components required for this spell.

Once you cast animate dead in this way, you must finish a long rest before you can cast it in this way again.

                      Totem of Light

                                Prerequisite: 5th level Shaman
                                   You bind a spirit of radiance that restores
                                    your spirit when you aid others. When
                                    you cast a spell of 1st-level or higher that
                                   restores hit points to a creature other
                                 then yourself, you gain temporary hit
                               points equal to your Wisdom modifier.

Totem of Mirth

Prerequisite: 5th level Shaman, Heart Sacred Focus
You bind a spirit of revelry and life that grants you renewed vigor. Once per long rest, you can use a bonus action to grant yourself temporary hit points equal to your Shaman level.

Totem of the Mystic

Prerequisite: 5th level Shaman, Mind Sacred Focus
You bind a spirit of secret knowledge that grants you the ability to peer into the minds of others. As an action, you
can cast detect thoughts without expending a spell slot, or requiring the normal verbal or somatic components.

Once you cast detect thoughts in this way, you must finish
a short or long rest before you can cast it in this way again.

Totem of the Swamp

Prerequisite: 5th level Shaman
You bind a spirit of disease which can poison foes. As an action, you can exude noxious gas and force creatures within 15 feet to make a Constitution saving throw. On a failed save, they are poisoned until the beginning of your next turn. On a success, they are immune to this effect for 24 hours.

Totem of the Wild

Prerequisite: 5th level Shaman
You bind a bestial spirit which you can call to your aid. You can cast summon beast at a level equal to your Primal Magic slots, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Once you cast summon beast in this way, you must finish a long rest before you can cast it in this way again.

Totem of Wrath

Prerequisite: 5th level Shaman
You bind a spirit of anger that increases your power. When a creature fails its saving throw against Totemic Assault, you can add your Wisdom modifier to the damage roll.

Totem of the Hunt

Prerequisite: 7th level Shaman
You bind a spirit of the Wild Hunt that enhances your ferocity. Once per turn, you can grant yourself advantage on an attack roll if your target is within 5 feet of one of your allies.

Totem of the Ooze

Prerequisite: 7th level Shaman
You bind a spirit of elemental water which allows your body to flow like ooze. As a bonus action, you can cause your body to become pliable. You can move through spaces as narrow as 1 inch without squeezing, and escape from nonmagical restraints or a grapple by expending 5 feet of movement.

Totem of the River

Prerequisite: 7th level Shaman
You bind a spirit of elemental water which allows you to live underwater. You can breathe both air and water, and you gain a swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Totem of the Cave

Prerequisite: 9th level Shaman
You bind a spirit of elemental earth that lends you its ability to sense movement through the ground. So long as you are touching the ground, you gain tremorsense out to a radius of 30 feet, allowing you to sense anything touching the ground.

Totem of the Dawn

Prerequisite: 9th level Shaman
You bind a spirit of radiance which you can shield creatures from death. At the end of a long rest, you can cast death ward on a creature of your choice, without expending a spell slot.

Totem of the Faerie

Prerequisite: 9th level Shaman
You bind a fey spirit which you can call to your aid. You can cast summon fey at a level equal to your Primal Magic slots, without expending a spell slot or material components.

Once you cast summon fey in this way, you must finish a long rest before you can cast it in this way again.

Totem of the Sun

Prerequisite: 9th level Shaman
You bind a spirit of radiance that allows you to succeed when all hope seems lost. When you fail a saving throw, you can choose to re-roll, possibly turning a failure into a success.

Once you use this feature to re-roll a saving throw you must finish a short or long rest before you can use it again.

When you reach 15th level in this class, you can use this feature twice between each short or long rest.

Totem of the Vine

Prerequisite: 9th level Shaman
You bind a spirit of wild growth which lends you the power to restrain your foes. You can cast ensnaring strike at 1st-level, at will, without expending a spell slot.

Totem of Binding

Prerequisite: 15th level Shaman
You can quickly bind a spirit to regain some of your power. Once per long rest, you can use an action to regain one of your expended Primal Magic spell slots.

Totem of the Eclipse

Prerequisite: 15th level Shaman
You bind a powerful spirit that grants you resistance to the arcane. You gain resistance to all damage from spells.

Totem of the Elements

Prerequisite: 15th level Shaman
You bind an elemental spirit which you can call to your aid. You can cast summon elemental at the level of your Primal Magic slots, without expending a spell slot or components.

Once you cast summon elemental in this way, you must finish a short or long rest before you can do so again.

Totem of the Sapling

Prerequisite: 15th level Shaman
You bind a powerful spirit of wild growth which blesses your body with wondrous regeneration. At the start of each of your turns, you regain hit points equal to your Wisdom modifier, so long as you have no more than half of your hit points left.

You do not gain this benefit if you have 0 hit points.

Totem of the Skies

Prerequisite: 15th level Shaman
You bind a powerful spirit of elemental air which propels you through the air. You gain a flying speed equal to your walking speed, and whenever you take falling damage you reduce the damage by an amount equal to your Shaman level.

Shaman Spell List

Below is the list of spells available to the Shaman. They are organized by spell level, not character level. The spells listed below can be found in the Player's Handbook, Xanathar's Guide to Everything*, and Tasha's Cauldron of Everything**.

Spells marked with LL are found in the laserllama Spell Compendium, which includes both new and alternate spells.