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, hide armor, shields
• Weapons: Simple weapons
• Tools: Choose one from cook’s utensils, weaver’s tools, and woodcarver’s tools; herbalism kit

• Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
• Skills: Choose three from Animal Handling, Arcana, History, Insight, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, Perception, Persuasion, Religion, and Survival.

Equipment

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

• (a) a shortbow and a quiver of 20 arrows or (b) any simple melee weapon
• (a) a wooden shield or (b) any simple melee weapon
• (a) leather armor or (b) hide armor
• (a) a priest’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
• (a) a holy symbol or (b) a druidic focus

Healing Touch

Starting at 1st level, you have a pool of healing power that you draw upon by channeling the spirits of nature. This pool has a number of points in it equal to five times your shaman level, and you regain all points spent from the pool when you finish a long rest.

As an action, you can touch a creature and do any combination of restoring hit points, treating ailments, and ending conditions by spending the appropriate number of points from the pool. Each hit point you restore costs 1 point. Each disease you cure or poison you neutralize costs 5 points. Each condition you end – which can end include any effect causing the creature to be blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, paralyzed, petrified, poisoned, or stunned – costs 10 points.

Cantrips (o-Level Spells)

You learn two cantrips of your choice from the shaman spell list. You learn one additional shaman cantrip of your choice at 10th and 14th level.

In addition, each time you gain a level in the shaman class, you can replace one shaman cantrip you know with a different one.

Preparing and Casting Spells

The Shaman table shows how many spell slots you have to cast your spells of 1st level and higher. To cast one of these shaman spells, you must expend a slot of the spell's level or higher. You regain all expended spell slots when you finish a long rest.

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 + half your shaman level (minimum of one spell). The spells must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

For example, if you are a 5th-level shaman, you have four 1st-level and two 2nd-level spell slots. With a Wisdom of 14, your list of prepared spells can include four spells of 1st or 2nd level, in any combination. If you prepare the 1st-level spell cure wounds, you can cast it using a 1st-level or 2nd-level slot. Casting the spell does not remove it from your list of prepared spells.

Spellcasting Ability

Wisdom is your spellcasting ability for your shaman spells, as your magic comes from aligning your soul with the spirits of nature. You use your Wisdom whenever a 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.

Journey of the Dragon

Any shaman who journeys to become a totem of the dragon stares at dragons in awe, not in fear. The shaman strives to embody the qualities of a dragon that most humanoids overlook: its majesty, its might, and its desire to be left alone.

Journey Spells

Elemental Bursts

At 3rd level, you develop a burst weapon inspired by the mephit’s death burst.

As an action, you can spawn your burst weapon centered on a point you can see within 100 feet of you. Your burst weapon manifests as a 15 foot cube filled with elemental energy. The first time a creature enters the cube on its turn, or if a creature starts its turn in the cube, the creature must make a Dexterity or Constitution saving throw (its choice) against your spell save DC. On a failed save, a creature takes your burst weapon’s damage and suffers an additional effect. Your burst weapon’s damage die is the same size as your prayer die. The type of damage and the additional effect are detailed in the description of the elemental burst you choose to spawn. On a successful save, a creature takes half as much damage and suffers no additional effect. The cube persists for 1 minute or until your concentration on it ends (as if concentrating on a spell).

Boulder Burst. (bludgeoning) A creature that fails the save is knocked prone.

Caustic Burst. (acid) A creature that fails the save suffers a –2 penalty to its AC until the start of its next turn.

Cloud Burst. (lightning) A creature that fails the save has its speed reduced to 0 until the start of its next turn.

Cyclone Burst. (slashing) A creature that fails the save is pushed up to 15 feet in a single direction you choose.

Noxious Burst. (poison) A creature that fails the save cannot regain hit points until the start of its next turn.

Scorching Burst. (fire) A creature that fails the save grants advantage to attack rolls against it until the start of its next turn.

Shivering Burst. (cold) A creature that fails the save suffers disadvantage on its attack rolls until the start of its next turn.

Shrieking Burst. (thunder) A creature that fails the save is dazed until the start of its next turn. A dazed creature can only take an action or a bonus action on its turn, not both, and it cannot take reactions.

Sirocco Burst. (piercing) A creature that fails the save allows any attack against it to score as a critical hit on a roll of 19 or 20 until the start of its next turn.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded up), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Elemental Mobility

At 6th level, you gain a climbing speed and swimming speed equal to your walking speed.

Improved Elemental Bursts

At 10th level, you learn how to manipulate the elements within your bursts even after the initial implosion. Each time you use your burst weapon, you can choose to apply one of the following additional effects, directing the elements upward, downward, or around your allies.

Upward. You suspend the elements in the air within the cube. A creature benefits from half cover if it is outside the cube and its attacker is inside the cube, and vice-versa.

Downward. You let the elements fall down and reshape the land. The ground within the cube becomes difficult terrain.

Around Your Allies. When a friendly creature inside the cube attacks a hostile creature inside the cube, the friendly creature can make the attack deal the same type of damage as what the elemental burst deals, instead of the attack's normal damage type.

Elemental Armaments

At 14th level, you reinvent the elemental burst weapon as a defensive armament you can grant to yourself or allies. As a bonus action, you can expend one use of your Elemental Burst feature and instead focus on a friendly creature you can see within 5 feet of you, wrapping it in one of the elemental armaments listed below and making it “the armed creature”. The elemental armament lasts for 1 minute or until your concentration on it ends (as if concentrating on a spell).

Armament of the Flame Domain. The armed creature has advantage on Dexterity saving throws against spells and other magical effects that deal fire damage.

Armament of the Mountain’s Might. The armed creature gains resistance to all damage types and can add its proficiency bonus to any damage it deals with a melee weapon attack, but its speed becomes 10 feet.

Journey Spells

Chastise Spirits

At 3rd level, you learn how to display your power to the extraplanar creatures near you and fill them with awe or fear. As an action, you can present your holy symbol or druidic focus and force each hostile celestial, elemental, fey, fiend, and undead creature within 30 feet of you that can hear you to make a Wisdom saving throw against your spell save DC as you attempt to charm or frighten it. You choose which condition to impose each time you use this feature.

Charmed. A creature that fails the save is charmed by you. A creature charmed this way considers you a force to be reckoned with, and it remains stationary to admire or study you. It is incapacitated, its speed becomes 0, and attacks against it have advantage. A creature remains charmed this way for 1 minute or until it takes damage.

Frightened. A creature that fails the save is frightened by you. A creature frightened this way considers you an insurmountable threat, and it must move as far away from you as possible as quickly as possible. It can only use its action to return its native plane of existence (if it has such a capability), to take the Dash action, to try to escape from an effect that prevents it from moving, or to take the Dodge action if there is nowhere to go; it also cannot take reactions. A creature remains frightened this way for 1 minute or until it takes damage. A creature is immune to this effect if it is immune to being turned.

You can use this feature a number of times equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded up), and you regain all expended uses when you finish a short or long rest.

Weapon Specialization

At 6th level, you determine your favorite tool to use in your endeavors to corral unruly spirits. Choose one simple or martial melee weapon. You gain proficiency with such weapons if you do not already have it, and you gain a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls you make with such weapons.

Improved Chastisement

At 10th level, you start to display greater and greater shows of power. Each outcome of your Chastise Spirits feature gains an additional effect.

Charmed. If a creature fails the saving throw and its Challenge Rating is 1 or lower, it falls under your control instead of being charmed. (The effect lasts for the same duration.) It can move and take reactions on its own, but the only action it takes on its turn is the Dodge action, unless you use your bonus action to command it to take an action in its stat block or to take the Dash, Disengage, Help, Hide, or Search action. If you command it to make an attack or cast a spell, you also choose the target(s) for that attack or spell.

Starting at 14th level, you can control any creature whose Challenge Rating is 2 or lower. At 20th level, you can control any creature whose Challenge Rating is 3 or lower.

Frightened. Any creature who makes the saving throw takes psychic damage, either the full amount on a failed save or half as much on a successful one. The damage roll is a number of d6 equal to half your shaman level (rounded up), and you can treat any immunity an affected creature has to psychic damage as only a resistance.

Ghost Weapon

At 14th level, you learn to filter your growing spiritual adaptations into your weapon as an extension of yourself. When you make an attack with a weapon that benefits from your Weapon Specialization feature, you can temporarily turn the weapon intangible and bypass the target’s defenses in order to strike its spirit. If you do, you treat the target’s AC against the attack as 10 + its Dexterity modifier + its Charisma modifier, and the weapon counts as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to nonmagical attacks and damage.

Journey Spells

Unarmed Nature

At 3rd level, you augment your weaponless fighting style with the following techniques.

• The 1 base damage of your unarmed strike is replaced with 1d4. This damage die increases by two sides when you reach 10th (1d6) and 20th level (1d8).
• A creature provokes an opportunity attack from you when it makes a melee attack against you and misses.
• When a creature provokes an opportunity attack from you, you can use the reaction to attempt to grapple or shove the creature instead.
• Whenever you shove a creature and knock it prone, you can immediately attempt to grapple the creature as part of the same attack.
• While you are grappling a creature, you can use your action to attempt to pin it. Make a grapple check, and if you win the contest, both you and the creature become restrained.

Unique Blessings

At 3rd level, you gain a number of additional prayer dice equal to half your proficiency bonus (rounded up). You also learn the Blessing of the Tramontane unique to your totemic journey, as well as another unique blessing at 6th, 10th, and 14th level. These blessings do not count against your number of blessings known.

Blessing of the Tramontane. Prerequisite: 3rd-level Journey of the Living Weapon shaman. When you attempt to shove a creature and knock it prone, you can expend one prayer die to channel the mountain-traversing spirit of the north wind. Roll the prayer die, add the result to your roll for the contest, and if you win the contest, you can move the creature to any unoccupied space within 5 feet of you before knocking it prone. You can use this blessing before or after the contested rolls are made, but before you learn the outcome of the contest.

Blessing of the Raging Sea. Prerequisite: 6th-level Journey of the Living Weapon shaman. When you make an unarmed strike on a creature, you can expend one prayer die and attempt to channel the unstable spirit of the ocean into the target. Roll the prayer die, add the result to the attack roll, and if the attack hits, the creature loses any part of its AC that is provided by its Dexterity modifier until the end of your next turn. You can use this blessing before or after the attack roll is made, but before you learn whether or not it hits.

Blessing of the Falling Star. Prerequisite: 10th-level Journey of the Living Weapon shaman. When you make an unarmed strike on a creature, you can expend one prayer die to channel the shining spirit of the meteorite. Roll the prayer die, and the creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw (DC = 8 + the result) or be blinded for 1 minute. The creature can repeat this saving throw at the end of each of its turns, ending the effect on itself on a success. This effect applies even if the unarmed strike misses.

Blessing of the Boa. Prerequisite: 14th-level Journey of the Living Weapon shaman. At the end of your turn, if you have a creature pinned and have kept it pinned since your last turn, you can expend one prayer die to channel the constricting spirit of the boa. Roll the prayer die, and the creature must succeed on a Constitution saving throw (DC = 8 + the result) or fall unconscious. The creature remains unconscious for 10 minutes, until it regains at least 1 hit point, or until another creature safely awakens it with a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) check.

Totem of the Living Weapon

At 20th level, you fully embody the spirit of the living weapon.

• Your creature type changes from humanoid to giant. If you already have a creature type other than humanoid, you can remain that type or change to giant.
• Your size becomes Large if you are Medium or smaller, and your body enlarges accordingly.
• Your Strength score increases by 2, to a maximum of 22.
• When you hit a creature with an unarmed strike, roll one additional damage die. If the target is a creature that is grappled or pinned by you, roll two additional damage dice instead.