Spirit Shaman (D&D class)

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Divine spellcaster class from Complete Divine. Not quite a spontaneous spellcaster, uses the druid spell list.

Notes

Spirit Shamen use Charisma as their sole spellcasting attribue. Ignore all references to Wisdom in the spellcasting section.

Spirit Shamen have the same restrictions in regards to armors that druids have: Spirit Shamen are proficient with light armor but are prohibited from wearing metal armor; thus, they may wear only padded leather, or hide armor and do not start proficient in hide armor. (A Spirit Shaman may also wear wooden armor that has been altered by the ironwood spell so that it functions as though it were steel. See the ironwood spell description. They can also wear armor of dragon skin that approximates metal armor.) Spirit Shamen are not proficient with shields and if they use them anyway they must use only wooden ones.

A Spirit Shaman who wears prohibited armor or carries a prohibited shield is unable to cast Spirit Shaman spells or use any of her supernatural or spell-like class abilities while doing so and for 24 hours thereafter.

Notes: What is a Spirit?

Several of the spirit shaman's abilities affect spirits. For purposes of the spirit shaman's ability, a “spirit” includes any of the following creatures:

• All undead
• All deathless (see Book of Exalted Deeds)
• All fey
• All magical beasts
• All abberations
• All outsiders
• Creatures in astral or ethereal form – but only as long as the shugenja is in material form om her home plane
• All creatures of the spirit subtype (see Oriental Adventures)
• Spirit folk and telthors (see Unapproachable East)
• Spirit creatures created by spells such as dream sight or wood wose.

In the spirit shaman's worldview, elementals and fey are simply spirits of nature, and undead are the spirits of the dead. Magical beasts and abberations are either spirit-posssesed creatures or spirits bound in corporeal form.

Note that this is not the same list as that of the original spirit shaman class, and in fact is much more generous. The list was revised while working on the Shugenja, and I decided to use the same list for both classes. This is compensated for by forbidding the spirit shaman metal armor.