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Writing & Game Design: Ross Leiser

Additional Spells: Benjamin Huffman of Sterling Vermin Adventuring Shaman.................................................................................................... 1
Company Class Features......................................................................................... 2
Editing: Eli Scovill Shaman Spell List.............................................................................. 4
Sensitivity Readers: Lynn Brown (Hoodoo and Voodoo), Jesse Spirit Guides............................................................................................ 7
Craighead (Cherokee) Air Spirit............................................................................................... 7
Ancestral Spirit................................................................................... 7
Layout & Graphic Design: Taron Pounds Animal Spirit....................................................................................... 8
Cover Artist: Isaac DeKing - Kraest Illustrations Benevolent Spirit................................................................................ 8
Interior Artists: Daniel Comerci, Gary Dupuis, Forrest Imel, Vagelio Earth Spirit.......................................................................................... 9
Kaliva, Eric Lofgren, Joyce Maureira, Elizabeth Porter, Dean Fire Spirit............................................................................................. 9
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Mournful Spirit..................................................................................11
Special Thanks Vengeful Spirit...................................................................................12
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including reference cards for the Spirit Guides Water Spirit........................................................................................13
Spiritual Practices................................................................................14
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Spencer Jackson Matt Lowry Sympatheticism................................................................................15
Aric Wilson CrimsonChaos Totemism............................................................................................17
DJ Rkod Fareed Shayek Warchanting.......................................................................................19
Joel David Allport-Cohoon Alex F Witch Medicine.................................................................................21
Solatra Harvinkai Wesley Kenton Spells.......................................................................................................22
Ryan Acheson Jake Sine Spells Table........................................................................................22
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Shaman
An orc strides confidently alongside her
adventuring party, chanting sacred prayers to aid
them in the upcoming battle. As the orc’s stirring
voice begins to lift their spirits, her comrades would
swear they can see an ethereal warrior floating
beside their friend.
Quickly extending his hand, a kalashtar exorcist
focuses the power of his quori partner to sear an
abjuring mark onto an attacking demon. As the fiend
recoils from the innocent woman it was attempting
to possess, the kalashtar blasts it with ethereal
flame, forcing the demon back to the Abyss.
Chiseling the finishing touches onto a stone statue,
a dwarf looks to their spirit guide for approval. The
fire spirit, in the form of a fox, flares with happiness
and leaps to inhabit the totem.
Shamans cultivate connections with spirits and
become conduits between the material and spirit
worlds. Whether shamans are carefully mixing
poultices, joyously blessing a couple’s new union,
or protecting their allies in a desperate battle, it is
their symbiotic relationships with the spirits that give
them access to their spiritual knowledge and powers.
Spiritual Connection
The core of a shaman’s abilities is their
relationship with the denizens of the spirit
world. Through sacred rituals passed down by their
people, shamans embark on spiritual journeys that
allow their consciousnesses to access realms beyond
the material, where they seek to earn favor with the
spirit guides who dwell there. By cultivating bonds
with these spirit guides, a shaman can become
a channel, inviting a spirit to share the shaman’s
mortal vessel. A shaman channeling a spirit in this
way carries advantages for both entities involved. For
the spirit, this is a chance to safely experience the
Material Plane, and so long as the shaman acts as
a conduit for the spirit, the spirit will often share its
wisdom and abilities with the shaman.
Journeys and Rituals
All shamans undertake journeys to contact the
spirit world, some through ritual meditation, others
through the use of sacred herbs, and others still
through pilgrimages to sites where the veil between
worlds is thin. Many aim to bring the wisdom and
power they gain from communing with the spirits
back to protect and improve their communities,
returning home after each journey. The shamans
SHAMAN CLASS 1
 who become adventurers, though, often believe that
their spiritual journeys must involve traveling in their
physical forms throughout the multiverse.
Through their travels, these adventuring shamans
learn to practice rituals not explicitly created
to contact the spirit world, trading knowledge
and wisdom with all sorts of ritual spellcasters.
These shamans adapt arcane and divine rituals to
work with their own spiritual connections, often
discovering new ways to tap into the Weave and turn
unfamiliar magics into shamanic rituals.
Creating a Shaman
As you create your shaman character, consider
how you came into contact with the spirits of the
multiverse. Did you have a near-death experience
during which a benevolent spirit cradled your
soul just long enough for the healers to draw you
back to your body? Were you trained to conduct
sacred rituals to contact the other side under the
supervision of an elder shaman? Are you the latest in
a long line of shamans who learn to receive guidance
from an ancestor spirit, or did you accidentally call
upon a vengeful spirit to torment your enemies in
a moment of sheer hatred? Did you stumble over a
mischievous spirit one night in a haunted mansion
and strike up a light-hearted friendship, or did a
primordial spirit deem you worthy of companionship
only after you discovered its remote home in
the wilds?
How much do you trust the spirits you channel?
Do you remain in full control at all times, confining
the spirit to exist only as a passenger that lives
vicariously through you, while you make use of its
powers? Or do you allow the spirit to take full control
of your mortal vessel, enabling it to accomplish the
goals it never had the chance to finish in life? Do
you negotiate with the spirits each time you channel
them, gaining the use of their abilities only so long
as they get something in return? Or does your level
of trust and commitment vary with each of the spirits
you channel?
Quick Build
You can make a shaman quickly by following these
suggestions. First, Charisma should be your highest
ability score, followed by Dexterity or Constitution.
Second, choose the hermit or outlander background.
Third, choose the ghostfire OAP and thaumaturgy
cantrips, and the Benevolent Spirit and Mischievous
Spirit as your spirit guides.
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Class Features
As a shaman, you gain the following class features.
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
Weapons: Simple weapons
Tools: Herbalism kit
Saving Throws: Wisdom, Charisma
Skills: Choose two from Arcana, Deception, Insight,
Intimidation, Persuasion, and Religion
Starting Equipment
You start with the following equipment, in addition to
the equipment granted by your background:
• (a) any two simple weapons or (b) a light crossbow
and 20 bolts
• (a) an explorer’s pack or (b) a priest’s pack
• Leather armor, an herbalism kit, and a shamanic
totem (see the Spellcasting Focus section
of the Shamanic Ritual Spellcasting feature
for examples)
Multiclassing and the Shaman
If your group uses the optional rule on multiclassing in the
Player’s Handbook, here’s what you need to know if you choose
shaman as one of your classes.
Ability Score Minimum. As a multiclass character, you must
have at least a Charisma score of 13 to take a level in this class,
or to take a level in another class if you are already a shaman.
Proficiencies Gained. If shaman isn’t your initial class, here
are the proficiencies you gain when you take your first level as a
shaman: light armor, herbalism kits.
Spell Slots. Add all your levels in the shaman class to the
appropriate levels from other classes to determine your available
spell slots.
Shamanic Ritual Spellcasting
1st-level shaman feature
Most of a shaman’s spellcasting abilities come
directly from channeling a spirit guide (see the
Medium feature later in the class’s description).
However, through the rituals you’ve studied to
commune with the spirits and your repeated contact
with the spirit world, you have also learned to cast
a modest selection of ritual spells on your own,
without needing to channel a spirit. See chapter 10
of the Player’s Handbook for the general rules of
spellcasting.
The Shaman
Proficiency Spirit Cantrips —Spell Slots per Spell Level—
Level Bonus Features Guides Known 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
1st +2 Shamanic Ritual Spellcasting, Medium 2 2 2 — — — — — — — —
2nd +2 Adept Ritualist, Spiritual Practice 2 2 3 — — — — — — — —
3rd +2 See Beyond 2 2 4 2 — — — — — — —
Ability Score Improvement,
4th +2 2 2 4 3 — — — — — — —
Cantrip Versatility
5th +3 Call from Beyond 3 3 4 3 2 — — — — — —
6th +3 Spirited Ritual, Spiritual Practice feature 3 3 4 3 3 — — — — — —
7th +3 — 3 3 4 3 3 1 — — — — —
Ability Score Improvement,
8th +3 3 3 4 3 3 2 — — — — —
Ritual Potency (2nd level)
9th +4 — 4 3 4 3 3 3 1 — — — —
Hastened Ritual,
10th +4 4 4 4 3 3 3 2 — — — —
Spiritual Practice feature
11th +4 Improved Medium 4 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 — — —
Ability Score Improvement,
12th +4 4 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 — — —
Ritual Potency (3rd level)
13th +5 — 5 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 — —
14th +5 Spiritual Practice feature 5 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 — —
15th +5 — 5 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 —
Ability Score Improvement,
16th +5 5 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 —
Ritual Potency (4th level)
17th +6 Step Beyond 6 4 4 3 3 3 2 1 1 1 1
18th +6 Spirit Nexus 6 4 4 3 3 3 3 1 1 1 1
19th +6 Ability Score Improvement 6 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 1 1 1
Master Ritualist,
20th +6 6 4 4 3 3 3 3 2 2 1 1
Ritual Potency (5th level)

Cantrips from your list of prepared spells.

You know two cantrips of your choice from the
shaman spell list. You learn additional shaman
cantrips of your choice at higher levels, as shown
in the Cantrips Known column of the Shaman
table. You cast your shaman cantrips normally,
not as rituals.
Preparing and Casting Ritual Spells
In the shaman spell list, each spell of 1st level and
higher has the ritual tag. You prepare the list of
shaman ritual spells that are available for you to cast,
choosing from the shaman spell list. When you do
so, choose a number of shaman ritual spells equal
to half your shaman level, rounded up (minimum of
two spells). The spells must be of a level for which
you have spell slots. Unless you gain a shaman ritual
spell from another source, you can cast the spell only
as a ritual.
For example, if you’re a 5th-level shaman, you have
four 1st-level, three 2nd-level, and two 3rd-level spell
slots. Your list of prepared shaman ritual spells can
include three spells of 1st, 2nd, or 3rd level, in any
combination. Casting a ritual spell doesn’t remove it
You can change your list of prepared ritual spells
when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of
shaman ritual spells requires time spent preparing
the materials and rehearsing the rites: at least 1
minute per spell level for each spell on your list.
Rules Tip: Casting a Spell as a Ritual
When you cast a spell as a ritual, as you must for all of your
shaman ritual spells, it takes 10 minutes longer to cast than
normal. It also doesn’t expend a spell slot, which means the
ritual version of a spell can’t be cast at a higher level until
you gain later shaman class features. You must have the spell
prepared to cast it as a ritual.
Spell Slots
The Shaman table shows how many spell slots you
have to cast the spells granted by a spirit guide you’re
channeling (see the Medium feature later in the
class’s description). To cast one of these spells of 1st
level or higher, you must expend a spell slot of the
spell’s level or higher. You regain all expended spell
slots when you finish a long rest.

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 Spellcasting Ability of ground herbs, a hand drum used in rituals, a piece
Charisma is your spellcasting ability for your shaman of jewelry made from animal bones, or any other
spells. Your magic comes from your connection such significant object, depending on your method of
to the spirit world, powered by the strength of contacting the spirit world.
your relationships with its ethereal denizens. You Shaman Spell List
use Charisma whenever a shaman spell refers to Here’s the list of spells you consult when you learn a
your spellcasting ability. In addition, you use your shaman cantrip or ritual spell. The list is organized
Charisma modifier when setting the saving throw by spell level, not character level. All shaman ritual
DC for a shaman spell you cast and when making an spells of 1st level and higher have the ritual tag for
attack roll with one. you. You can’t cast the spells except as rituals, unless
Spell save DC = 8 + your proficiency bonus + your Charisma you’ve learned them by some other means.
modifier Most of these spells are from the Player’s
Spell attack modifier = your proficiency bonus + your Charisma Handbook. If a spell’s name is followed by the XGE
modifier superscript, the spell can be found in Xanathar’s
Guide to Everything. Spells with the OAP and SVAC
Spellcasting Focus superscripts are original spells that have been
You can use a shamanic totem as a spellcasting included in the New Spells section.
focus for your shaman spells. A shamanic totem
is a physical item that helps strengthen the bond Cantrips (0 Level) 3rd Level Ritual Spells
Chill touch (necromancy) Bolstering apparitions OAP
between you and the spirits. A shamanic totem could
Create bonfire (conjuration) (conjuration)
take many forms: an energy-resonant crystal, a doll Dancing lights (evocation) Detect past OAP (divination)
made from leather or straw, the femur of an ancestor, Friends (enchantment) Feign death (necromancy)
a spirit board, a staff carved with symbols, a pouch Ghostfire OAP (evocation) Find greater familiar SVAC
Guidance (divination) (conjuration)
Lay to rest OAP (abjuration) Leomund’s tiny hut (evocation)
Light (evocation) Phantom steed (illusion)
Mage hand (conjuration) Water breathing (transmutation)
Message (transmutation) Water walk (transmutation)
Minor illusion (illusion)
4th Level Ritual Spells
Speak true SVAC (divination)
Curse ward OAP (abjuration)
Thaumaturgy (transmutation)
Divination (divination)
Toll the dead XGE (necromancy)
Ghostsight OAP (transmutation)
1st Level Ritual Spells Harrowing apparition OAP
Alarm (abjuration) (conjuration)
Ceremony XGE (abjuration)
5th Level Ritual Spells
Comprehend languages
Breaching apparition OAP
(divination)
(conjuration)
Detect magic (divination)
Commune (divination)
Fertility rites SVAC (abjuration)
Rary’s telepathic bond (divination)
Find familiar (conjuration)
Guiding apparition OAP 6th Level Ritual Spells
(conjuration) Forbiddance (abjuration)
Identify (divination) Forecast OAP (divination)
Last rites SVAC (necromancy)
7th Level Ritual Spells
Make camp SVAC (abjuration)
Possessive apparition OAP
Oath-sealing covenant SVAC
(conjuration)
(divination)
Purify food and drink
(transmutation)
Unseen servant (conjuration)
2nd Level Ritual Spells
Animal messenger (enchantment)
Augury (divination)
Gentle repose (necromancy)
Locate animals or plants
(divination)
Magic mouth (illusion)
Protective apparitions OAP
(conjuration)
Silence (illusion)
Skywrite XGE (transmutation)

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Medium
1st-level shaman feature
You are able to channel spirits from the spirit world
to borrow their abilities and become a conduit
for their powers. Choose two spirit guides from
the Spirit Guides section at the end of the class’s
description. You choose additional spirit guides at
higher levels, as shown in the Spirit Guides column
of the Shaman table. Whenever you gain a level in
this class, you can replace one of your chosen spirit
guides with a different one.
Whenever you finish a long rest, you can conduct
a unique ritual to contact one of your spirit guides.
The specifics of the ritual are your choice; you might
light incense and pray, craft a small charm, sing
a traditional song, or perform a sacred dance to
a beating drum. Regardless of how you choose to
contact the other side, the ritual takes 10 minutes to
complete, at the end of which you begin channeling
one of your spirit guides. You can perform this ritual
at the same time you prepare a new list of ritual
spells. While you channel the spirit guide, you gain
the features and spells it grants. Each spell granted
by a spirit guide counts as a shaman spell for you
and can be cast using your spell slots, following
the normal rules for spellcasting, rather than only
as a ritual.
You channel the spirit guide until you choose to
dismiss it as an action, until you channel a new spirit
guide by using this feature again, or until you die.
In any of these cases, the spirit guide returns to the
spirit world until you choose to channel it again.
Adept Ritualist
2nd-level shaman feature
When you cast a shaman ritual spell, it takes you
only 1 minute longer to cast the spell, instead
of 10 minutes.
Spiritual Practice
2nd-level shaman feature
You choose a spiritual practice that shapes the way
your communion with the spirits affects the greater
world: Exorcism, Sympatheticism, Totemism,
Warchanting, or Witch Medicine, each of which is
detailed at the end of the class’s description. Your
choice grants you features at 2nd level and again at
6th, 10th, and 14th level.
Roleplay Tip: Roleplaying a Spirit Guide
Depending on the story that you and your DM want your
character to portray, there are many ways for your spirit guides
to be presented and roleplayed while you channel them:
Who can see your spirit guides? A spirit guide you’re
channeling might be visible only to you and to any creature that
has truesight or that can see into the Ethereal Plane; the spirit
could present as ghostly, semi-translucent clothing, incorporeal
armor, or an unearthly aura that appears around you while you’re
channeling it; or it could take the form of an intangible entity
that can be seen by all as it flits or floats about your space. If you
take the find familiar or find greater familiar SVAC spell, perhaps
your familiar even takes the physical form of your channeled
spirit guide (this has no effect on the familiar’s statistics).
How much personality do your spirit guides have? A spirit
guide you’re channeling may be nothing more to your character
than a representation of the spiritual power you have been
granted; the spirit might have its own goals but may not be
able to communicate with anyone other than you; or perhaps it
has the ability to speak and interact with the members of your
party or even NPCs. A channeled spirit could even influence
the way your character speaks or acts. At you and your DM’s
option, perhaps a spirit guide has such a force of personality
that it can even control aspects of your body or speak through
you while you channel it. Take a moment to discuss the details
with your DM, so you can make sure you agree on terms, and
both know what to expect in advance. If a spirit guide can
interact with people other than you, do you roleplay the spirit or
does your DM?
Each of your spirit guides could appear and interact with your
character differently, perhaps depending on the nature of your
relationship with them, or based on their own unique personality
traits. In any case, having a discussion with your DM about
these aspects of your character and their spirit guides is the
best way to ensure a fun and fulfilling experience for you and
everyone else in the campaign.
See Beyond
3rd-level shaman feature
Your connection to the spirit world allows your vision
to pierce the veil between realities. You always have
the see invisibility spell prepared as a shaman ritual
spell. It doesn’t count against the number of shaman
ritual spells you can prepare each day.
Ability Score Improvement
4th-level shaman feature
When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th,
16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability
score of your choice by 2, or you can increase
two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal,
you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using
this feature.
Cantrip Versatility
4th-level shaman feature
Whenever you reach a level in this class that grants
the Ability Score Improvement feature, you can
replace one cantrip you learned from this class’s
Shamanic Ritual Spellcasting feature with another
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 cantrip from the shaman spell list.
Call from Beyond
5th-level shaman feature
You can call upon spirits that have crossed over to
the other side to briefly reinhabit their abandoned
vessels. You always have the speak with dead spell
prepared as a shaman ritual spell. It doesn’t count
against the number of shaman ritual spells you can
prepare each day.
Spirited Ritual
6th-level shaman feature
You can tap the other side to channel raw spiritual
power into your ritual casting. When you cast
a shaman ritual spell, you can cast it at a level
equal to your highest level spell slot. You still don’t
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expend a spell slot when you cast a ritual spell with
this feature.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again
until you finish a long rest.
Ritual Potency
8th-level shaman feature
Your expertise in channeling the power of the spirit
world makes your minor rituals more potent. When
you cast a 1st level shaman ritual spell, you can cast
it at 2nd level. It still doesn’t expend a spell slot to
cast the spell this way.
When you reach certain levels in this class, your
rituals continue to increase in power. Once you reach
12th level in this class, when you cast a 1st or 2nd
level shaman ritual spell, you can cast it at 3rd level.
Once you reach 16th level in this class, when you
cast a shaman ritual spell of 3rd level or lower, you
can cast it at 4th level. Once you reach 20th level in
this class, when you cast a shaman ritual spell of 4th
level or lower, you can cast it at 5th level.
Hastened Ritual
10th-level shaman feature
You can perform your shaman ritual spells with acute
speed. When you cast a shaman ritual spell, you can
do so with the spell’s normal casting time, instead of
it taking 1 minute longer to cast the spell. You still
don’t expend a spell slot when you cast a ritual spell
with this feature.
Once you use this feature, you can’t use it again
until you finish a long rest.
Improved Medium
11th-level shaman feature
You can perform the ritual to channel a new spirit
guide whenever you finish a short or long rest.
Step Beyond
17th-level shaman feature
You are so attuned to the other side that you can pass
through the boundaries of reality to walk amongst
the spirits. You always have the etherealness spell
prepared as a shaman ritual spell. It doesn’t count
against the number of shaman ritual spells you can
prepare each day.
Spirit Nexus
18th-level shaman feature
When you perform the ritual to channel a new
spirit guide, you can choose to channel two of your
spirit guides simultaneously, gaining the benefits
associated with both for as long as you channel
them. When you use your action to dismiss a spirit
guide you’re channeling, you can choose to dismiss
one or both spirits.

Master Ritualist
20th-level shaman feature
You always have each ritual spell on the shaman spell
list prepared, ignoring the number of shaman ritual
spells you can normally prepare each day.
Additionally, you regain the use of your Hastened
Ritual when you finish a short or long rest.

Spirit Guides
The spirit guides are presented in alphabetical order.

Air Spirit
Often mistaken for elementals, air spirits are shaped
from winds, crackling lightning, and booming
thunder. Tempestuous and adventurous, the most
common forms air spirits take are those of eagles,
owls, rocs, and other predatory avians.
Bonus Cantrips
While you channel this spirit, you know the gust XGE
and thunderclap XGE cantrips. They count as shaman Ancestral Spirit
cantrips for you and don’t count against the number
of cantrips you know. Ancestral spirits are manifestations of the departed
souls of tribal elders and beloved forebears. These
Air Spirit Spells spirits carry whole lifetimes of experience, and they
1st Level 5th Level freely offer their wisdom, knowledge, and protection
Chromatic orb (evocation; Conjure elemental (conjuration; to the shamans who are wise enough to listen.
lightning or thunder only) air elemental only)
Fog cloud (conjuration) Control winds XGE (transmutation) Bonus Cantrips
Thunderwave (evocation)
6th Level While you channel this spirit, you know the blade
2nd Level Investiture of wind XGE ward and resistance cantrips. They count as shaman
Dust devil XGE (conjuration) (transmutation) cantrips for you and don’t count against the number
Gust of wind (evocation)
7th Level of cantrips you know.
Shatter (evocation)
Whirlwind XGE (evocation)
3rd Level
8th Level
Ancestral Spirit Spells
Call lightning (conjuration)
Control weather (transmutation) 1st Level 5th Level
Wind wall (evocation)
Command (enchantment) Dispel evil and good (abjuration)
9th Level Detect poison and disease Legend lore (divination)
4th Level
Storm of vengeance (conjuration)
Elemental bane XGE (divination)
6th Level
(transmutation; lightning or Shield of faith (abjuration)
Find the path (divination)
thunder only)
2nd Level
Storm sphere XGE (evocation) 7th Level
Find traps (divination)
Mordenkainen’s magnificent
Warding bond (abjuration)
mansion (conjuration)
Zone of truth (enchantment)
8th Level
3rd Level
Antimagic field (abjuration)
Create food and water
(conjuration) 9th Level
Remove curse (abjuration) Foresight (divination)
4th Level
Death ward (abjuration)
Guardian of faith (conjuration)

SHAMAN CLASS 7
 Animal Spirit
Though these spirits do often take the form of
animals like wolves, bears, deer, and other creatures
native to their surrounding habitat, animal spirits are
actually broader embodiments of the natural order.
Animal spirits offer a connection with all beasts,
and allow a shaman who channels them to access
animal abilities.
Bonus Cantrips
While you channel this spirit, you know the
infestation XGE and primal savagery XGE cantrips. They
count as shaman cantrips for you and don’t count
against the number of cantrips you know.
Animal Spirit Spells
1st Level 5th Level
Animal friendship (enchantment) Awaken (transmutation; beasts
Beast bond XGE (divination) only)
Speak with animals (divination) Commune with nature
(divination)
2nd Level
Insect plague (conjuration)
Alter self (transmutation; aquatic
adaptation or natural weapons 8th Level
only) Animal shapes (transmutation)
Animal messenger
(enchantment)
9th Level
Mass polymorph XGE
Benevolent Spirit
Beast sense (divination)
(transmutation) Benevolent spirits are formed from the souls of
3rd Level saints, heroes, and martyrs who spent their lives in
Conjure animals (conjuration)
service of others. So great was their virtue that even
Haste (transmutation)
from beyond the veil of death, these spirits remain
4th Level suffused with positive energy that a shaman can
Giant insect (transmutation)
Guardian of nature XGE channel to heal and comfort the living.
(transmutation; primal beast
only) Bonus Cantrips
Polymorph (transmutation) While you channel this spirit, you know the sacred
flame and spare the dying cantrips. They count as
shaman cantrips for you and don’t count against the
number of cantrips you know.
Benevolent Spirit Spells
1st Level 5th Level
Bless (enchantment) Greater restoration (abjuration)
Cure wounds (evocation) Mass cure wounds (evocation)
Protection from evil and good
6th Level
(abjuration)
Heal (evocation)
2nd Level
7th Level
Aid (abjuration)
Resurrection (necromancy)
Enhance ability (transmutation)
Lesser restoration (abjuration) 8th Level
Holy aura (abjuration)
3rd Level
Beacon of hope (abjuration) 9th Level
Revivify (necromancy) Power word heal (evocation)
4th Level
Aura of life (abjuration)
Aura of purity (abjuration)

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 Fire Spirit
Passionate and excitable, fire spirits exemplify both
the bright warmth of a playful bonfire and the fierce
heat of a roaring inferno. These spirits most often
appear as foxes, rabbits, sparrows, and other fleet
creatures formed from embers, smoke, and flame.
Bonus Cantrips
While you channel this spirit, you know the control
flames XGE and produce flame cantrips. They count as
shaman cantrips for you and don’t count against the
number of cantrips you know.
Fire Spirit Spells
1st Level 5th Level
Burning hands (evocation) Conjure elemental (conjuration;
Chromatic orb (evocation; fire fire elemental only)
only) Immolation XGE (evocation)
Hellish rebuke (evocation)
6th Level
2nd Level Investiture of flame XGE
Continual flame (evocation) (transmutation)
Flaming sphere (conjuration)
7th Level
Heat metal (transmutation)
Fire storm (evocation)
3rd Level
8th Level
Fireball (evocation)
Incendiary cloud (conjuration)
Melf ’s minute meteors XGE
(evocation) 9th Level
Earth Spirit 4th Level
Meteor swarm (evocation)

Earth spirits are resolute and steadfast, created Elemental bane XGE

(transmutation; fire only)

from both the unyielding stone that forms great Wall of fire (evocation)
mountains and the patient vines that slowly break
boulders down to dirt. They most commonly present
themselves as tortoises, bears, and wolves.
Bonus Cantrips
While you channel this spirit, you know the mold
earth XGE and thorn whip cantrips. They count as
shaman cantrips for you and don’t count against the
number of cantrips you know.
Earth Spirit Spells
1st Level 5th Level
Earth tremor XGE (evocation) Conjure elemental (conjuration;
Entangle (conjuration) earth elemental only)
Hail of thorns (conjuration) Wall of stone (evocation)
2nd Level 6th Level
Earthbind XGE (transmutation) Investiture of stone XGE
Maximilian’s earthen grasp XGE (transmutation)
(transmutation) Move earth (transmutation)
Spike growth (transmutation)
8th Level
3rd Level Earthquake (evocation)
Erupting earth XGE
9th Level
(transmutation)
Imprisonment (abjuration;
Plant growth (transmutation)
burial, chaining, or minimus
4th Level containment only)
Grasping vine (conjuration)
Stone shape (transmutation)

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 Lost Spirit
Sometimes a soul passes through the veil with such
pressing unfinished business that, through sheer
force of will, it manifests itself back onto the Material
Plane as a spirit. Each time the spirit crosses the
veil, it degrades, eventually becoming a shade bent
on one singular purpose - one it has long forgotten
the meaning behind. These lost spirits wander
through the boundaries of reality, inflicting their
confusion and disorientation upon others.
Bonus Proficiencies
While you channel this spirit, you have proficiency
with forgery kits and in the Deception skill. If you
are already proficient in the Deception skill, you add
double your proficiency bonus to ability checks you
make with it.
Lost Spirit Spells Malevolent Spirit
1st Level 5th Level Malevolent spirits coalesce from the souls of cruel
Color spray (illusion) Mislead (illusion) villains, tyrannical despots, and those who, even in
Sleep (enchantment) Synaptic static XGE (enchantment)
death, retain a desire to inflict terror and suffering.
Tasha’s hideous laughter
(enchantment)
6th Level These dark spirits will often refuse to partner with
Scatter XGE (conjuration)
a shaman until the shaman sacrifices something
2nd Level
Mind spike XGE (divination)
7th Level deeply treasured, like a beloved friend or family
Plane shift (conjuration)
Misty step (conjuration) member, or an important piece of themself.
Pass without trace (abjuration) 8th Level
3rd Level
Feeblemind (enchantment) Mien of Terror
Enemies abound XGE 9th Level While you channel this spirit, you know the toll
(necromancy) Psychic scream XGE
(enchantment) the dead XGE cantrip. If you already know toll the
Slow (transmutation) dead, when you cast this cantrip, a target that
4th Level succeeds on its saving throw takes half the damage,
Banishment (abjuration) instead of none.
Confusion (enchantment) Additionally, while you channel this spirit, you
have proficiency in the Intimidation skill. If you are
already proficient in the Intimidation skill, you add
double your proficiency bonus to ability checks you
make with it.
Malevolent Spirit Spells
1st Level 5th Level
Cause fear XGE (necromancy) Destructive wave (evocation;
Dissonant whispers necrotic only)
(enchantment) Infernal calling XGE (conjuration)
Inflict wounds (necromancy)
6th Level
2nd Level Eyebite (necromancy)
Blindness/deafness (necromancy)
7th Level
Crown of madness
Finger of death (necromancy)
(enchantment)
Darkness (evocation) 8th Level
Maddening darkness XGE
3rd Level
(evocation)
Fear (illusion)
Summon lesser demons XGE 9th Level
(conjuration) Weird (illusion)
4th Level
Phantasmal killer (illusion)
Summon greater demon XGE
(conjuration)

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 Mournful Spirit
Mournful spirits are the remnants of souls that
experienced great tragedy in life, usually through
deep loss or unbearable loneliness, and have carried
that sorrow with them into the afterlife. Eternally
anguished, they seek connections with the living and
excel at inspiring sympathy.
Elicit Pity
While you channel this spirit, you know the friends
cantrip. It counts as a shaman cantrip for you and
doesn’t count against the number of cantrips you
know. Once per short or long rest when you cast this
spell, you can use this feature to prevent the target of
the spell from automatically becoming hostile toward
you when the cantrip ends. The target is still aware
that you used magic to influence it.
Mournful Spirit Spells
1st Level 5th Level
Charm person (enchantment) Contact other plane (divination)
Heroism (enchantment) Dream (illusion)
Sanctuary (abjuration)
6th Level
Mischievous Spirit 2nd Level
Calm emotions (enchantment)
Mass suggestion (enchantment)
Otto’s irresistible dance
Some corrupted souls don’t desire to cause harm, Enthrall (enchantment) (enchantment)
but instead have an irrepressible spark of whimsy Suggestion (enchantment)
8th Level
that even the veil between worlds can’t bedim. These 3rd Level Antipathy/sympathy
mischievous spirits can often be found playing Sending (evocation) (enchantment)
Tongues (divination) Telepathy (evocation)
pranks on the living - moving objects around rooms,
slamming doors and opening shutters, and otherwise 4th Level
Charm monster XGE
drawing mortals into their shenanigans. (enchantment)
Compulsion (enchantment)
Bonus Cantrips
While you channel this spirit, you know the
thaumaturgy and vicious mockery cantrips. They
count as shaman cantrips for you and don’t count
against the number of cantrips you know.
If you already know the thaumaturgy cantrip, you
can create up to two of the spell’s magical effects
each time you cast it.
Mischievous Spirit Spells
1st Level 5th Level
Catapult XGE (transmutation) Passwall (transmutation)
Disguise self (illusion) Seeming (illusion)
Grease (conjuration)
6th Level
2nd Level Programmed illusion (illusion)
Invisibility (illusion)
7th Level
Knock (transmutation)
Mirage arcane (illusion)
Magic mouth (illusion)
8th Level
3rd Level
Glibness (transmutation)
Blink (transmutation)
Major image (illusion) 9th Level
True polymorph (transmutation)
4th Level
Greater invisibility (illusion)
Hallucinatory terrain (illusion)

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 Warrior Spirit
All throughout history, great warriors have fought
bravely and died nobly in the name of honor and
glory. These warrior spirits gleefully grant their skills
and resilience to the shamans who channel them,
eager to experience the thrill of battle once more.
Bonus Proficiencies
While you channel this spirit, you have proficiency
with martial weapons and shields.
Warrior Spirit Spells
1st Level 5th Level
Absorb elements XGE (abjuration) Holy weapon XGE (evocation)
Hunter’s mark (divination) Steel wind strike XGE (conjuration)
Zephyr strike XGE (transmutation) Swift quiver (transmutation)
2nd Level 6th Level
Barkskin (transmutation) Tenser’s transformation XGE
Magic weapon (transmutation) (transmutation)
Spiritual weapon (evocation)
7th Level
3rd Level Mordenkainen’s sword
Conjure barrage (conjuration) (evocation)
Elemental weapon
9th Level
(transmutation)
Invulnerability XGE (abjuration)
4th Level
Freedom of movement
(abjuration)
Vengeful Spirit Stoneskin (abjuration)
Some souls cross to the other side with a burning
hatred in their hearts. Such vengeful spirits almost
always died violently; in death, they are driven by a
terrible, otherworldly need to revisit that violence
and destruction upon the world of the living.
Spiteful Strike
While you channel this spirit, once on each of
your turns when you hit with a weapon attack or
deal damage to only one target with a shaman
spell, you can add your Charisma modifier to the
damage you deal.
Vengeful Spirit Spells
1st Level 5th Level
Compelled duel (enchantment) Enervation XGE (necromancy)
Guiding bolt (evocation) Hold monster (enchantment)
Hex (enchantment)
6th Level
2nd Level Disintegrate (transmutation)
Hold person (enchantment)
7th Level
Melf ’s acid arrow (evocation)
Power word pain XGE
Shadow blade XGE (illusion)
(enchantment)
3rd Level
8th Level
Bestow curse (necromancy)
Power word stun (enchantment)
Vampiric touch (necromancy)
9th Level
4th Level
Power word kill (enchantment)
Blight (necromancy)
Locate creature (divination)

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Water Spirit
Water spirits shape themselves from all forms of
water, some from the sea, others from snow and ice.
Shamans who channel these spirits may feel the fury
of the tides or experience the tranquility of still, deep
waters. Equal parts serene and stern, water spirits
often take the forms of fish, serpents, and raccoons.
Bonus Cantrips
While you channel this spirit, you know the frostbite
XGE
and shape water XGE cantrips. They count as
shaman cantrips for you and don’t count against the
number of cantrips you know.
Water Spirit Spells
1st Level 5th Level
Chromatic orb (evocation; cold Cone of cold (evocation)
only) Conjure elemental (conjuration;
Create or destroy water water elemental only)
(transmutation) Maelstrom XGE (evocation)
Ice knife XGE (conjuration)
6th Level
2nd Level Investiture of ice XGE
Blur (illusion) (transmutation)
Mirror image (illusion) Wall of ice (evocation)
Snilloc’s snowball swarm XGE
8th Level
(evocation)
Tsunami (conjuration)
3rd Level
Sleet storm (conjuration)
Tidal wave XGE (conjuration)
4th Level
Control water (transmutation)
Elemental bane XGE
(transmutation; cold only)

Creating Custom Spirit Guides

The thirteen spirit guides presented above are meant to represent archetypes of shamanic spiritualism and of popular media, and they
provide a simple framework into which most general concepts for spirits can be sorted. If it is important for your character’s story that
you bond with a very specific type of spirit, or if your DM wants to make a spirit guide for you that is uniquely tied into their campaign, a
custom one can be made using the following template:
• First, consider the power set or theme that the spirit guide should have. This could be tailored to fit your character, or designed to fit
flawlessly into your DM’s world lore. A spirit guide based on a specific character could have multiple themes.
• Next, create a static, beneficial feature that is always active or available when the spirit guide is being channeled. As you can see above,
most of these manifest as bonus cantrips and proficiencies, but other effects can be used, so long as they aren’t more powerful.
• Then, choose a spell list: pick three each of 1st-level and 2nd-level spells, two each of 3rd-level, 4th-level, and 5th-level spells, and one
each of 6th-level, 7th-level, 8th-level, and 9th-level spells. Feel free to choose spells from any class in the game; shamans are ethereal
travelers of the multiverse, spirits come from a truly unlimited array of otherworldly realms, and their spell lists are free to reflect that
breadth of experience and flavor. If there aren’t enough spells of a particular level that match the theme or narrative of the spirit guide
you want to create, choose an additional spell of a lower level instead. By the end of the process, the spirit guide’s spell list should have
a total of sixteen spells.
• Finally, if your shaman character has chosen the Exorcism, Totemism, or Warchanting Spiritual Practice, you will either need to
assign an existing effect to your new spirit guide, or write a new effect entirely. Specifically, a Totemism Shaman will require a Spirit
Totem activation effect for their Call Totem feature, an Exorcism Shaman will require an effect for their Guided Mark feature, and a
Warchanting Shaman will require an effect for their Guided Chant feature.

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 Once you mark a creature with this feature,
Spiritual Practices you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest.
When a shaman channels a spirit guide, they form Alternatively, you can expend a spell slot of 1st level
a symbiotic connection that grants the shaman or higher to use this feature again.
access to the spirit’s knowledge and abilities, while
Hunter-Protector
allowing the spirit to once again experience life on
6th-level Exorcism feature
the mortal planes. Though the nature of these bonds
is only directly beneficial to the shaman and the You always have the detect evil and good and
spirit, adventuring shamans also engage in spiritual protection from evil and good spells prepared as
practices or professions that allow them to channel shaman ritual spells. They don’t count against
the spirit guides’ powers in new ways. the number of shaman ritual spells you can
prepare each day.
Exorcism
Exorcism is the practice of hunting and banishing
extraplanar entities that seek to spread their evil
into the prime material. Shamans of this profession
- widely known as exorcists - study sacred religious
rites and use their spiritual power to defend
innocents both living and dead from the corrupting
influence of malicious aberrations, celestials,
elementals, fey, fiends, and undead.
Exorcist Lore
2nd-level Exorcism feature
You gain proficiency in the Religion skill, and
you can use a holy symbol as a spellcasting
focus for your shaman spells. If you are already
proficient in Religion, choose another skill from the
shaman skill list.
Additionally, when you make an Intelligence
(Religion) check for the purpose of determining
the rites required to end a possession or banish
an aberration, celestial, elemental, fey, fiend, or
undead from the Material Plane, your proficiency
bonus is doubled.
Banishing Brand
2nd-level Exorcism feature
You can mark creatures with a spiritual brand meant
to repel extraplanar invaders. As a bonus action,
you can magically mark a creature you can see
within 30 feet of you. The mark remains on the
target for 1 minute, until you lose concentration
(as if you were concentrating on a spell), or
until you use this feature again. When you deal
damage to the marked target with a weapon
attack or shaman spell, the mark deals an
additional 1d6 force damage to the target.
When the marked target is reduced to
0 hit points, if the target is native to a
different plane of existence than the one
you’re on, the target is banished to its
home plane and can’t return to the plane
from which you banished it by any means
short of the wish spell for 24 hours.

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Guided Brand
10th-level Exorcism feature
Your Banishing Brand becomes suffused with the
power of the spirits. When you are channeling a
spirit guide, your mark gains additional effects for
the duration. If such an effect requires a saving
throw, it uses your shaman spell save DC. Once you
reach 18th level in this class and can channel two
spirit guides simultaneously, your mark gains both
spirits guides’ effects.
Air Spirit. The first time during each of your turns
that the mark deals damage to the marked target, the
target is pushed 10 feet in a straight line away from
you if it is Large or smaller.
Ancestral Spirit. The first time during each of
your turns that the mark deals damage to the marked
target, you can choose one creature you can see
within 30 feet of you. During the chosen creature’s
next turn, the first time the creature deals damage
to the marked target with a weapon attack or spell,
the mark deals an additional 1d6 force damage
to the target.
Animal Spirit. You have advantage on any Wisdom
(Perception) or Wisdom (Survival) check to find or
track the marked target, and not being able to see the
target doesn’t impose disadvantage on your attack
rolls against it.
Benevolent Spirit. The first time during each of
your turns that the mark deals damage to the marked
target, you can cause a creature you can see within
30 feet of you to regain a number of hit points equal
to the damage the mark dealt.
Earth Spirit. The first time during each of your
turns that the mark deals damage to the marked
target, the target must succeed on a Strength saving
throw or be knocked prone. If the target is knocked
prone with this ability, you can cause the ground in
a 10-foot radius centered on the prone creature to
become difficult terrain for 1 minute.
Fire Spirit. The first time during each of your
turns that the mark deals damage to the marked
target, the target takes an additional 1d6 fire damage
from the mark.
Lost Spirit. The first time during each of your
turns that the mark deals damage to the marked
target, the target must succeed on an Intelligence
saving throw or suffer the effects of the confusion
spell until the end of its next turn.
Malevolent Spirit. The first time during each of
your turns that the mark deals damage to the marked
target, the target must succeed on a Wisdom saving
throw or become frightened of you until the end of
its next turn.
Mischievous Spirit. When you mark the target
or as a bonus action on your turn, you can cause
the mark to create a harmless sensory effect that
distracts the marked target. The next attack roll
made against the target is made with advantage.
Mournful Spirit. The first time during each of your
turns that the mark deals damage to the marked
target, the target must succeed on a Wisdom saving
throw or become charmed by you until the end of
its next turn.
Vengeful Spirit. When the marked target deals
damage to you, you can use your reaction to make a
weapon attack against the target or cast a shaman
cantrip at it. The cantrip must deal damage and have
a casting time of 1 action.
Warrior Spirit. You gain a +1 bonus to your attack
and damage rolls against the marked target.
Water Spirit. The first time during each of your
turns that the mark deals damage to the marked
target, the target must succeed on a Constitution
saving throw or its speed is halved until the end of
its next turn.
Threshold Guardian
14th-level Exorcism feature
You always have the dispel evil and good spell
prepared as a shaman ritual spell. It doesn’t count
against the number of shaman ritual spells you can
prepare each day. When you cast the spell as a ritual,
each of the spell’s effects also affects aberrations for
the duration, and the spell doesn’t end early until
you have used its special functions 3 times, in any
combination.
Sympatheticism
Sympatheticism is the practice of binding the
spiritual essence of two entities together through
the use of a symbolic focus - often a doll, effigy, or
poppet. Though it is most common among shamans
of this practice - usually referred to as sympaths - to
create their blessings or curses by binding spirits to
the souls of the living, it is also possible for advanced
sympaths to bind themselves directly to others to
help absorb and reduce their pain.
Tradition holds that the art of sympatheticism
was discovered due to the blending of faiths and
practices of peoples who were enslaved together in
close proximity. As a result, most sympaths become
champions of the oppressed, binding the spirits to
imbue the downtrodden with protection and luck
while bringing misfortune upon tyrants and slavers.
Bonus Proficiencies
2nd-level Sympatheticism feature
You gain proficiency with two of the following
artisan’s tools of your choice: leatherworker’s tools,
weaver’s tools, or woodcarver’s tools. You add double
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 your proficiency bonus to ability checks you make
with the chosen tools.
With 1 hour of light activity and 1 gp worth of
wood, herbs, and cloth or leather, you can use any
combination of leatherworker’s tools, weaver’s
tools, and woodcarver’s tools to create a poppet.
The poppet is a Tiny object that can take the form
of a doll, a bag of sticks and herbs, or an effigy. You
can use a poppet created with this feature as a
spellcasting focus for your shaman spells.
Spirit Bond
2nd-level Sympatheticism feature
You can create sympathetic bonds between your
spirits and other creatures. As an action while
holding or wearing a poppet, you can magically bond
a spirit guide you’re channeling to a creature you can
see within 60 feet for 1 minute. The bond breaks if
you lose concentration (as if you were concentrating
on a spell), if the poppet is destroyed, or if you use
your action to end the bond. Once you create a Spirit
Bond, you can’t use this feature again until you finish
a long rest. Alternatively, you can expend a spell
slot of 1st level or higher to use this feature again.
You can have only one bond at a time, and you can’t
create a new bond while you already have one active.
When you create a Spirit Bond, you choose
whether it is a blessing or a curse:
Blessing. At the start of each of the bonded
creature’s turns, it gains 1d6 temporary hit points.
When the bonded creature makes an ability check,
attack roll, or saving throw, it can choose to make the
roll with advantage. It must choose to do so before it
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makes the roll. If the affected roll was a saving throw,
the strength of the protective magic is consumed and
the bond breaks; otherwise, the bond remains intact,
but the creature can’t use this ability again until the
start of its next turn. When the bond breaks, the
creature loses any remaining temporary hit points
from the bond.
Curse. As a bonus action, you can cause the
bonded creature to take 1d6 necrotic or psychic
damage (your choice when you create the bond).
When the bonded creature makes an ability check
or attack roll, you can use your reaction to force it to
make the roll with disadvantage. At the end of each
of the target’s turns, it can make a Wisdom saving
throw against your spell save DC, breaking the bond
on a successful save.
Bond of Empathy
6th-level Sympatheticism feature
You can bind yourself directly to other creatures
and reduce a portion of their pain by taking it into
yourself. You always have the warding bond spell
prepared as a shaman ritual spell. It doesn’t count
against the number of shaman ritual spells you can
prepare each day. When you cast the spell as a ritual,
you ignore its material components, and the spell
lasts until dispelled.
Guiding Bond
10th-level Sympatheticism feature
You can use your poppet as a focus to guide magic
through the spiritual pathways created by your Spirit
Bond. When you have a Spirit Bond established and
you cast a spell with any range other than Self that is
granted by a spirit guide you’re channeling, you can
target the bonded creature across any distance, so
long as the target is on the same plane as you. You
ignore the spell’s range, and being able to see the
poppet counts as being able to see the target and
the target’s space for the purposes of the spell. If the
spell normally targets more than one creature or
affects an area, it instead targets or affects only the
bonded creature.
Master Sympath
14th-level Sympatheticism feature
You become a master of weal and woe. The d6 for
your Blessing’s temporary hit points and Curse’s
damage becomes a d12, and you can have up to
two bonds active at the same time, given that each
one uses a different poppet, one bond is a Blessing,
and the other bond is a Curse. You can create two
bonds with the same action, but you must expend a
separate spell slot for each bond.
Additionally, you always have the bestow blessing
OAP
and bestow curse spells prepared as shaman
ritual spells. They don’t count against the
number of shaman ritual spells you can
prepare each day.

Totemism
Totemism is the belief that every living creature
carries a deep kinship with a spirit-being, and
that becoming the best version of oneself means
cultivating this bond. A shaman who practices
totemism - called a totemist - creates totems both
to proudly display their bonded spirits and to give
those spirits a physical conduit for their powers and
abilities. Due to the strength of their bonds with each
of their spirit guides, a totemist can use their totems
to call on the power of a spirit even if they are not
channeling it.
Bonus Proficiencies
2nd-level Totemism feature
You gain proficiency with two of the following
artisan’s tools of your choice: carpenter’s tools,
mason’s tools, painter’s supplies, or woodcarver’s
tools. You add double your proficiency bonus to
ability checks you make with the chosen tools.
Call Totem
2nd-level Totemism feature
You can create totems through which you can
channel your spirit guides’ abilities. As an action,
you can magically conjure a Small totem in an
unoccupied space that you can see on the ground
within 30 feet of you. Alternatively, you can conjure
the totem onto the back of a willing creature you can
see within 30 feet of you that is Medium or larger.
The totem is a magical object that has AC equal
to 13 + your Charisma modifier and a number of hit
points equal to five times your shaman level. The
totem is immune to poison damage, psychic damage,
and all conditions. If it is forced to make an ability
check or saving throw, treat all of its ability scores as
10 (+0). It disappears if it is reduced to 0 hit points
or after 1 minute. You can dismiss the totem early
as an action.
When you create the totem, you determine its
appearance and which spirit guide’s powers it’s
channeling, choosing from one of the spirit guides
you chose for your Medium feature. You don’t have
to be actively channeling the spirit guide yourself to
channel its powers through the totem, but at higher
levels, channeling the same spirit guide as the totem
enhances its effect. On each of your turns, you can
use a bonus action to activate the totem’s effects,
which are detailed in the Spirit Totems table. If
such an effect requires a saving throw, it uses your
shaman spell save DC.
While you are within 5 feet of
your totem, you can use your action to cause
it to teleport up to 30 feet to an unoccupied
space on the ground or onto the back of a willing
Medium or larger creature you can see.
Once you conjure a totem, you can’t do so again until
you finish a long rest. Alternatively, you can expend
a spell slot of 1st level or higher to use this feature
again. If you conjure a totem while you already have
one conjured, the previous totem disappears.
Locus of Power
6th-level Totemism feature
You can cast a spell of 1st level or higher granted
by one of your chosen spirit guides that you aren’t
currently channeling. The spell must be of a level
you can cast, and you must expend a spell slot of the
appropriate level to cast it. Once you use this feature,
you must finish a short or long rest before you can
use it again.
Totemic Repair
10th-level Totemism feature
Casting your spirit guides’ spells bolsters your
totems with spiritual energy. When you cast a spell
of 1st level or higher granted by one of your spirit
guides while you have a totem conjured, the totem
regains a number of hit points equal to twice the
level of the spell.
Call Totem Pole
14th-level Totemism feature
As an action, you can magically conjure a Large
totem pole in an unoccupied space that you can see
on the ground within 30 feet of you. It takes the form
of a number of totems equal to the number of spirit
guides you have, each stacked atop one another and

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 Spirit Totems
Spirit Guide Totem Activation Effect
Lightning arcs off of the totem to strike at a creature you can see within 30 feet of it. The target must make a Dexterity saving
throw. The target takes 1d8 lightning damage on a failed save, or half as much on a successful one.
Air
Once you reach 10th level in this class, while you and your totem are both channeling an Air Spirit, the damage increases to
2d8.
An ethereal guide reaches out from the totem to support a creature you can see within 30 feet of it. Once before the start of
your next turn, the target can choose to gain a +2 bonus to one ability check, attack roll, or saving throw it makes. The target
can wait until after it rolls the d20 before deciding to gain the bonus, but must decide before the DM says whether the roll
Ancestral
succeeds or fails.
Once you reach 10th level in this class, while you and your totem are both channeling an Ancestral Spirit, the bonus
increases to +4.
The totem imbues a creature you can see within 30 feet of it with primal vigor. Choose an ability score. The target has
advantage on ability checks and saving throws it makes using the chosen ability until the start of your next turn.
Animal Once you reach 10th level in this class, while you and your totem are both channeling an Animal Spirit, you can choose two
ability scores. The target has advantage on ability checks and saving throws it makes using both of the chosen abilities until
the start of your next turn.
A creature you can see within 30 feet of the totem is suffused with protective energy. It gains 1d6 temporary hit points that
last until the start of your next turn, and it has advantage on saving throws against spells and other magical effects while it
Benevolent has at least 1 of these temporary hit points.
Once you reach 10th level in this class, while you and your totem are both channeling a Benevolent Spirit, the amount of
temporary hit points increases to 2d6.
The ground quakes in a 10-foot radius centered on the totem. Each creature in the area must succeed on a Dexterity saving
throw or take 1d6 force damage. The ground in the area also becomes difficult terrain until the start of your next turn.
Earth
Once you reach 10th level in this class, while you and your totem are both channeling an Earth Spirit, the damage increases
to 2d6.
A line of flame 15 feet long and 5 feet wide erupts from the totem in a direction you choose. Each creature in the line must
succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take 1d8 fire damage. The fire ignites flammable objects not being worn or carried.
Fire
Once you reach 10th level in this class, while you and your totem are both channeling a Fire Spirit, the damage increases to
2d8.
A creature you can see within 30 feet of the totem feels its mind begin to cloud. The target must succeed on an Intelligence
saving throw or take 1d6 psychic damage and have disadvantage on the first ability check or attack roll it makes before the
Lost start of your next turn.
Once you reach 10th level in this class, while you and your totem are both channeling a Lost Spirit, the damage increases
to 2d6.
A bolt of necrotic energy launches from the totem toward a creature you can see within 30 feet of it. The target must succeed
on a Constitution saving throw or take 1d6 necrotic damage and have its hit point maximum reduced by an amount equal to
Malevolent the necrotic damage taken. The target dies if this effect reduces its hit point maximum to 0.
Once you reach 10th level in this class, while you and your totem are both channeling a Malevolent Spirit, the damage
increases to 2d6.
The totem surrounds a creature you can see within 30 feet of it with distracting, glittering motes. The next attack roll made
against the target before the start of your next turn has advantage.
Mischievous Once you reach 10th level in this class, while you and your totem are both channeling a Mischievous Spirit, you can
surround two targets with the glittering motes. Each target must be a creature you can see within 30 feet of the totem, and
the next attack roll made against each target before the start of your next turn has advantage.
A creature you can see within 30 feet of the totem feels a wave of melancholy wash over it. The target must succeed on a
Wisdom saving throw or its speed is halved until the start of your next turn. A creature with its speed halved by this ability can
use either an action or a bonus action on its turn, not both, and it can’t make more than one melee or ranged attack during
Mournful
its turn.
Once you reach 10th level in this class, while you and your totem are both channeling a Mournful Spirit, you can force two
targets you can see within 30 feet of the totem to each make the saving throw or have its speed halved.
The totem empowers the next strike of a creature you can see within 30 feet of it. The next time the target hits with an attack
roll before the start of your next turn, the attack deals an additional 1d6 damage.
Vengeful
Once you reach 10th level in this class, while you and your totem are both channeling a Vengeful Spirit, the damage
increases to 2d6.
An ethereal warrior projects from the totem to guard a creature you can see within 30 feet of the totem. Until the start of your
next turn, the target gains a +2 bonus to its AC.
Warrior
Once you reach 10th level in this class, while you and your totem are both channeling a Warrior Spirit, you can choose two
creatures you can see within 30 feet of the totem to gain this bonus.
The totem spouts water in an adjacent 10-foot cone that you designate. Each creature in that area must succeed on a Strength
saving throw or take 1d6 magical bludgeoning damage and be knocked prone.
Water
Once you reach 10th level in this class, while you and your totem are both channeling a Water Spirit, the damage increases
to 2d6.

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channeling one of your spirit guides. You choose
the order in which the totems are stacked and the
appearance of each totem; these choices have no
effect on the totem pole’s statistics. The totem pole
counts as a totem created by your Call Totem feature
for the purpose of your Totemism features.
The totem pole is a magical object that has AC
equal to 13 + your Charisma modifier and a number
of hit points equal to ten times your shaman level. It
is immune to poison damage, psychic damage, and
all conditions. If it is forced to make an ability check
or saving throw, treat all of its ability scores as 10
(+0). It disappears if it is reduced to 0 hit points or
after 1 minute. You can dismiss the totem pole early
as an action.
On each of your turns, you can use a bonus
action to teleport the totem pole up to 30 feet to
an unoccupied space you that you can see on the
ground and then activate the effects of two of the
totems within the pole, each of which are detailed in
the Spirit Totems table.
Once you conjure a totem pole, you can’t do so
again until you finish a long rest. Alternatively, you
can expend a spell slot of 6th level or higher to use
this feature again. If you conjure a totem or totem
pole while you already have a totem or totem pole
conjured, the previous one disappears.
Warchanting
Warchanting is practiced primarily by shamans
raised in warrior tribes who hold their courageous
spiritualists in high regard. Shamans who practice
warchanting - known as warchanters - fight on
the front lines even in the most dire of conflicts,
channelling their spiritual power into songs,
intonations, drumbeats, and dances that boost
morale and inspire greater martial feats from their
comrades in arms.
Bonus Proficiencies
2nd-level Warchanting feature
You gain proficiency with medium armor and an
instrument of your choice.
Warchant
2nd-level Warchanting feature
You can use your spiritual power to strengthen
your allies, bolster their courage, and inspire them
to great deeds. As an action, you begin a magical
Warchant, which lasts for 1 minute or until you
become incapacitated. You can end your Warchant
at any time on your turn (no action required). Your
Warchant can be a song of battle, a rhythmic drum
beat, a wordless intonation, or any other stirring
auditory performance. For the duration of your
Warchant, you and friendly creatures within 30 feet
of you that can hear you gain the following benefits:
• At the start of the creature’s turn, it gains
temporary hit points equal to half your
shaman level.
• When the creature hits with an attack roll, it gains
a +1 bonus to the attack’s damage roll.
Once you start a Warchant, you can’t use this feature
again until you finish a long rest. Alternatively, you
can expend a spell slot of 1st level or higher to use
this feature again.
Extra Attack
6th-level Warchanting feature
You can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you
take the Attack action on your turn.
Guided Chant
10th-level Warchanting feature
Your Warchant becomes suffused with the power
of your spirit guides. While you are channeling a
spirit guide, each creature who benefits from your
Warchant gains an additional benefit depending
on the spirit guide you’re channeling. Once you
reach 18th level in this class and can channel two
spirit guides simultaneously, both spirit guides’
benefits apply.
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 Air Spirit. When the creature starts its turn within
the area, its speed increases by 10 feet until the end
of the turn.
Ancestral Spirit. The creature has advantage on
any saving throw it makes against being charmed,
frightened, or poisoned.
Animal Spirit. The creature has advantage on
Wisdom (Perception) checks it makes using hearing,
sight, or smell, and it can take the Search action as a
bonus action.
Benevolent Spirit. The number of temporary hit
points granted by your Warchant increases to equal
your shaman level + your Charisma modifier.
Earth Spirit. The creature has advantage on
any saving throw it makes against being moved
or knocked prone against its will, and nonmagical
difficult terrain created by earth or plants costs it no
extra movement to traverse.
Fire Spirit. Once during each of the creature’s
turns when it deals damage with a weapon attack or
cantrip, it can choose to deal additional fire damage
to one target affected by the attack or spell. The
damage is equal to half your shaman level.
Lost Spirit. On each of the creature’s turns, it can
forgo its movement to teleport a number of feet up to
its walking speed to an unoccupied space it can see.
Malevolent Spirit. The bonus to damage rolls
granted by your Warchant increases to +3.
Mischievous Spirit. The creature can take the
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Help action as a bonus action.
Mournful Spirit. When the creature is hit by an
attack, it can use its reaction to force the target to
reroll the die and use the new roll.
Vengeful Spirit. Once during each of the creature’s
turns, when the creature misses with an attack roll, it
can reroll the die and must use the new roll.
Warrior Spirit. The creature gains a +1 bonus to
its AC and to each attack roll it makes.
Water Spirit. The creature gains the ability to
breathe, hear, and speak normally while underwater,
and gains a swimming speed of 25 feet.
Warleader
14th-level Warchanting feature
Your words and songs are so suffused with spiritual
power that they can give your comrades in arms
the will to continue fighting even through grievous
injury. If a creature other than you that you can see
drops to 0 hit points but doesn’t die outright, you
can use your reaction to attempt to protect it from
death. The target must be able to hear you. Make
a DC 10 Charisma check, adding your proficiency
bonus. If you succeed, the creature drops to 1 hit
point instead.
Each subsequent time you use this feature, the DC
increases by 5. When you finish a short or long rest,
or when you expend a spell slot of 5th level or higher
to use your Warchant, the DC resets to 10.
Witch Medicine
Witch Medicine is a form of alchemy created
long ago by shamans who sought to tap the
power of the spirits to treat the injured and
cleanse victims of dark magic; in the modern day,
this spiritual practice has become more often
associated with traveling apothecaries. As the
practice developed, these shamans - most often
referred to as witch doctors - discovered methods
of distilling the abilities of spirits into draughts,
tinctures, and potions. This empowers a shaman
and their allies to utilize the abilities of a spirit
while the shaman remains free to channel another.
Bonus Proficiencies
2nd-level Witch Medicine feature
You gain proficiency in the Medicine skill and with
one of the following artisan’s tools: alchemist’s
supplies or brewer’s supplies (your choice). If you
are already proficient in the Medicine skill, you add
double your proficiency bonus to ability checks you
make with it.
Spell Brewing
2nd-level Witch Medicine feature
You can brew tinctures to hold and store your spirit
guides’ powers. With 10 minutes of light activity, you
can use alchemist’s supplies or brewer’s supplies
to magically create a potion containing a spell of
1st level or higher granted by a spirit guide you’re
channeling. The spell must have a casting time of
1 action or 1 bonus action, and you must expend a
spell slot of the spell’s level or higher to imbue the
potion with spiritual magic. If the spell consumes any spell save DC for the duration. If the spell requires
of its material components, you must expend those concentration, the drinker is responsible for
components as part of brewing the potion. maintaining concentration on it for the duration.
A potion created with this feature lasts until you
finish a long rest, at which time it becomes inert Tincture Stockpile
unless you expend a spell slot of the potion’s spell’s 6th-level Witch Medicine feature
level or higher to replenish its magic. Replenishing When you replenish one or more potions upon
a potion will preserve its power until you finish your finishing a long rest, you can replenish some of
next long rest. You can replenish any number of their magic without expending your spell slots. The
your potions this way simultaneously, expending a combined level of the spells contained within the
separate spell slot for each potion. You don’t need to potions you replenish this way can’t exceed your
be channeling the spirit guide that grants a potion’s shaman level divided by 3. For example, as a 6th
spell or touching the potion to replenish it, but you level shaman, you can replenish up to two spell
must be on the same plane as the potion. levels’ worth of potions without expending spell slots:
As an action, a creature holding or carrying one either one potion containing a 2nd-level spell, or two
of your potions can drink it to immediately cast the potions each containing a 1st-level spell.
potion’s spell as part of the same action, without When you use this feature to replenish potions
requiring any of the spell’s normal components. The without expending spell slots, you can still replenish
drinker is treated as the spell’s caster and chooses the magic of any number of your other potions at the
the spell’s targets, though the spell uses your same time, provided you expend a spell slot of the
spellcasting ability modifier, spell attack bonus, and appropriate level for each one of them, as per the
normal Spell Brewing rules.

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 Witch Remedy
10th-level Witch Medicine feature
You are able to concentrate raw spiritual power into
a cleansing force, purging harmful magics from
yourself and others. You always have the dispel
magic and remove curse spells prepared as shaman
ritual spells. They don’t count against the number of
shaman ritual spells you can prepare each day. When
you cast a spell granted by this feature as a ritual,
its range becomes Touch, and it can target only
one creature.
Sublime Elixir
14th-level Witch Medicine feature
Your talent for imbuing your creations with spiritual
power is so well-honed that you can brew potions
with exceptional potency. When you imbue a potion
with a spell that requires concentration, you can
choose to use this feature to create a Sublime Elixir.
When a creature drinks one of your Sublime Elixirs,
the spell it contains lasts for its full duration without
requiring any creature to maintain concentration.
Once a creature drinks one of your Sublime
Elixirs, it can’t benefit from another until it finishes
a rest. If the last Sublime Elixir it drank contained
a spell of 5th level or lower, it can’t benefit from
another one until it finishes a short or long rest;
otherwise, it can’t benefit from another Sublime
Elixir until it finishes a long rest. If a creature drinks
a Sublime Elixir while it can’t benefit from one, it
must maintain concentration on the potion’s spell, as
per the normal Spell Brewing rules.
Spells
This section contains new spells that the DM may
add to a campaign, making them available to player
character and monster spellcasters alike. The Spells
table lists the new spells, ordering them by level. The
table also notes the school of magic of each spell,
whether it requires concentration, whether it bears
the ritual tag, and which classes have access to it.
If you’d like to use any of these spells for a
character of a class other than the Shaman, talk to
your DM, who may allow some, all, or none of them.
The speak true, fertility rites, last rites, make
camp, oath-sealing covenant, and find greater
familiar spells were created by Benjamin Huffman
of Sterling Vermin Adventuring Company and have
been included with his permission; all other spells
presented in this section were created by Ross
Leiser of Outlandish Adventure Productions.

Spells
Level Spell School Conc. Ritual Class
0 Ghostfire Evocation No No Shaman
0 Lay to Rest Abjuration No No Cleric, Shaman
0 Speak True Divination No No Bard, Cleric, Druid, Shaman, Sorcerer, Warlock, Wizard
1st Fertility Rites Abjuration No Yes Cleric, Druid, Odic, Shaman
1st Guiding Apparition Conjuration Yes Yes Shaman
1st Last Rites Necromancy No Yes Cleric, Odic, Paladin, Shaman
1st Make Camp Abjuration No Yes Druid, Ranger, Shaman
1st Oath-Sealing covenant Divination No Yes Cleric, Paladin, Shaman
2nd Protective Apparitions Conjuration No Yes Shaman
3rd Bestow Blessing Evocation No No Bard, Cleric
3rd Bolstering Apparitions Conjuration Yes Yes Shaman
3rd Detect Past Divination No Yes Justicar, Shaman, Wizard
3rd Find Greater Familiar Conjuration No Yes Shaman, Wizard
4th Curse Ward Abjuration No Yes Accursed, Cleric, Paladin, Shaman
4th Ghostsight Transmutation Yes Yes Shaman
4th Harrowing Apparition Conjuration Yes Yes Shaman
5th Breaching Apparition Conjuration Yes Yes Shaman
6th Forecast Divination No Yes Druid, Shaman, Wizard
7th Possessive Apparition Conjuration Yes Yes Shaman

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Spell Descriptions
The spells are presented in alphabetical order.
Bestow Blessing
3rd-level evocation
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a holy symbol)
Duration: 1 minute
You touch a willing creature and infuse it with a
divine blessing. When you cast this spell, choose the
nature of the blessing from the following options:
• Choose an ability score. While blessed, the target
has advantage on ability checks and saving throws
made with that ability score.
• While blessed, the first attack made against the
target each turn is made with disadvantage.
• While blessed, whenever the target would regain
hit points, it regains an additional 1d8 hit points.
At the DM’s option, you may choose an alternative
blessing effect, but it should be no more powerful
than those described above. The DM has final say on
the blessing’s effect.
At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a
spell slot of 4th level, the duration is 10 minutes. If
you use a spell slot of 5th or 6th level, the duration is
8 hours. If you use a spell slot of 7th or 8th level, the
duration is 24 hours. If you use a 9th-level spell slot,
the spell lasts for 1 week.
A gnoll casting Bolstering
Apparitions to embolden
their allies.
Bolstering Apparitions
3rd-level conjuration (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a shamanic focus)
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
You call three magnanimous spirits from beyond the
veil and direct them to protect up to three creatures
you can see within range. The spirits are invisible
to most creatures other than you, though a creature
with truesight or that can see into the Ethereal Plane
sees them floating protectively around the targets.
For the duration, each target gains 1d10 temporary
hit points at the start of each of its turns and has
a +1 bonus to saving throws. When the spell ends,
the targets lose any remaining temporary hit points
from this spell.
If a target is reduced to 0 hit points, the spirit
protecting that creature returns to the spirit world,
and the spell effect on that target ends. The spell
ends early if you cast another spell that calls one or
more spirits from beyond the veil, or immediately
after the last spirit has returned to the spirit world.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a
spell slot of 4th level or higher, you call an additional
spirit to protect up to one additional creature you can
see within range for each slot level above 3rd. When
you cast this spell using a spell slot of 6th level or
higher, the number of temporary hit points increases
by 1d10 and the bonus to saving throws increases by
+1 for every three slot levels above 3rd.
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 Breaching Apparition
5th-level conjuration (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a shamanic focus)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour
You call a willful spirit from beyond the veil to grant a
creature you can see within range the ability to strike
through the Border Ethereal. The spirit is invisible
to most creatures other than you, though a creature
with truesight or that can see into the Ethereal Plane
sees the spirit partially phased inside the target. For
the duration, the target’s weapon attacks are magical,
and its attacks and spells are able to affect creatures
within the Border Ethereal. The target can choose
for its attacks and spells to pass harmlessly through
most material objects, ignoring cover granted by
nonmagical objects and barriers unless they are
tangible within the Border Ethereal.
The spell ends early if you cast another spell that
calls one or more spirits from beyond the veil.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell
using a spell slot of 7th level or higher, you call
one additional spirit and can target one additional
creature you can see within range for every two slot
levels above 5th.
Curse Ward
4th-level abjuration (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Touch
Components: V, S
Duration: 1 hour
You touch a creature and grant it a measure of
protection against curses and other corrupting
influences. The target has advantage on saving
throws against magical effects that would curse
or possess it, or cause it to become charmed
or frightened.
The first time the target would become charmed,
frightened, possessed, or subject to a curse, the
effect is instead negated for the target, and this
spell ends. If the negated effect was the result of the
target’s attunement to a cursed item, the spell breaks
the target’s attunement to the object so it can be
removed or discarded.
The spell ends early if you cast it again.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a
spell slot of 6th or 7th level, the duration increases to
8 hours. When you use a spell slot of 8th or 9th level,
the duration increases to 24 hours.
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Detect Past
3rd-level divination (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a pocket watch or other
timekeeping device that can be wound backward)
Duration: Instantaneous
When you cast this spell, you must specify a type of
event, such as a murder, a clandestine meeting, a
battle, a celebration, or a tragedy, though you are not
limited to only these options. You sense the fading
presence of any such event that has happened within
30 feet of you in the past 1 hour. You can choose up
to one event you sensed in this way and view it in
its entirety, as though you bore witness to it when it
happened. The duration of the event and what you
see are determined by the DM.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using
a spell slot of 4th level or higher, you can detect
events that happened in the past 8 hours with a
4th-level slot, in the past 24 hours with a 5th-level
slot, in the past 7 days with a 6th-level slot, in the
past 30 days with a 7th-level slot, in the past year
with an 8th-level slot, and in the past 100 years with
a 9th-level spell slot.
Fertility Rites
1st-level abjuration (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 hour
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (medicinal herbs worth at
least 10 gp, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
You perform a special rite to enhance fertility and
bless the young. When you cast this spell, choose
one of the following ceremonies, the target(s) of
which must remain within 10 feet of you throughout
the casting.
Fecundity. You touch two willing creatures,
blessing their union. The next time they attempt to
conceive an offspring together, and are capable of
doing so, they succeed.
Good Health. You touch a humanoid who is no
more than one year old and pray for their good
health. The child has advantage on saving throws
against disease until they are 1 year old.
Lineage. You touch a humanoid who is adolescent
or younger and peer into their family history. You
learn the identity of the creature’s biological parents.
Midwifing. You touch a humanoid while they are in
labor and bless the birth. The creature will not die as
a result of this childbirth.
Safe Keeping. You touch a pregnant humanoid
and abjure their body against harm. The pregnancy
cannot be terminated without the creature’s consent.
Find Greater Familiar
3rd-level conjuration (ritual)
Casting Time: 8 hours
Range: 10 feet
Components: V, S, M (100 gp worth of charcoal,
incense, and herbs that must be consumed by fire
in a brass brazier)
Duration: Instantaneous
You gain the service of a familiar, a spirit that takes
a form you choose: blink dog, dust mephit, giant
centipede, giant octopus, giant poisonous snake,
giant spider, ice mephit, imp, magma mephit, mud
mephit, myconid sprout, pseudodragon, smoke
mephit, or steam mephit.
Appearing in an unoccupied space within range,
the familiar has the statistics of the chosen form,
though it is a celestial, fey, or fiend (your choice)
instead of its normal creature type.
Your familiar acts independently of you, but it
always obeys your commands. In combat, it rolls its
own initiative and acts on its own turn. A familiar
can’t attack, but it can take other actions as normal.
When the familiar drops to 0 hit points, it
disappears, leaving behind no physical form. It
reappears after you cast this spell again. While
your familiar is on the same plane as you, you can
communicate with it telepathically.
Additionally, as an action, you can see through your
familiar’s eyes and hear what it hears until the start
of your next turn, gaining the benefits of any special
senses that the familiar has. During this time, you
are deaf and blind to your own senses.
As an action, you can temporarily dismiss your
familiar. It disappears into a pocket dimension
where it awaits your summons. Alternatively, you can
dismiss it forever. As an action while it is temporarily
dismissed, you can cause it to reappear in any
unoccupied space within 30 feet of you.
You can’t have more than one familiar at a time.
Including a familiar created by this spell or by find
familiar. If you cast this spell while you already have
a familiar, you instead cause it to adopt a new form.
Choose one of the forms from the above list. Your
familiar transforms into the chosen creature.
Finally, when you cast a spell with a range of touch,
your familiar can deliver the spell as if it had cast
the spell. You must be able to see your familiar, and
it must use its reaction to deliver the spell when you
cast it. If the spell requires an attack roll, you use
your attack modifier for the roll.
Forecast
6th-level divination (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (a glass thermometer and a
copper weathervane)
Duration: Instantaneous
You predict that you’re going to cast a spell sometime
along your life’s path and send your future self the
power to cast it. Choose a spell you know or have
prepared that has a casting time of 1 action, then
expend a spell slot of the spell’s level or higher to
forecast it. Once, you can cast the forecasted spell
without expending a spell slot, at which time you lose
it as your forecasted spell. You also lose the spell as
your forecasted spell if you cast this spell again.
Ghostfire
Evocation cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S
Duration: Instantaneous
You summon ethereal flame into the palm of your
hand and hurl it at a creature within range. The
attack is able to hit a creature within the Border
Ethereal, though it passes harmlessly through
most material objects and ignores cover granted
by nonmagical objects and barriers unless they are
tangible within the Border Ethereal. On a hit, the
creature takes 1d6 force damage.
The spell’s damage increases by 1d6 when you
reach 5th level (2d6), 11th level (3d6), and 17th
level (4d6).
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Ghostsight
4th-level transmutation (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: Self
Components: V, S, M (an ointment for the eyes
made from ectoplasm and sacred herbs)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You alter your vision to see into the Border
Ethereal out to a range of 30 feet. Everything on
the Material Plane within this radius appears gray
and translucent, allowing you to see through most
creatures, objects, and barriers within the radius
as though they weren’t there, though you can’t see
beyond 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of common metal, a
thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using
a spell slot of 5th level or higher, the range of the
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A human peering into
the Ethereal Realm with
Ghostsight, granted vision
through her spirits.
sight increases by 10 feet for each slot level above
4th. Additionally, when you cast this spell using a
slot of 6th or 7th level, the duration increases to 10
minutes, and when you cast this spell using a slot of
8th or 9th level, the duration increases to 1 hour.
Guiding Apparition
1st-level conjuration (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 bonus action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a shamanic focus)
Duration: Concentration, up to 1 minute
You call a friendly spirit from beyond the veil to guide
a creature that you can see within range. The spirit
is invisible to most creatures other than you, though
a creature with truesight or that can see into the
Ethereal Plane sees the spirit floating around the
target, subtly guiding its movements. Until the spell
ends, the target deals an extra 1d4 force damage the
first time each turn that it hits with an attack. Also,
choose one ability when you cast the spell. The target
gains a +1 bonus to ability checks and attack rolls
made with the chosen ability.
As a bonus action each round for the duration,
you can have the spirit move and provide guidance
to a different target creature you can see within 30
feet of you.
The spell ends early if you cast another spell that
calls one or more spirits from beyond the veil.
At Higher Levels. If you cast this spell using a
spell slot of 2nd level or 3rd level, the duration is
concentration, up to 10 minutes. If you use a spell
slot of 4th or 5th level, the duration is concentration,
up to 1 hour. If you use a spell slot of 6th or 7th level,
the duration is 8 hours. If you use a spell slot of 8th
or 9th level, the duration is 24 hours. Using a spell
slot of 6th level or higher grants a duration that
doesn’t require concentration, though the spell still
ends early if you cast it again.
Harrowing Apparition
4th-level conjuration (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a shamanic focus)
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
You call a ghastly spirit from beyond the veil into the
space of target creature you can see within range,
poised to strike terror into the hearts of the target’s
enemies. The spirit remains with the target as it
moves, and is visible only to the target’s enemies,
though a creature with truesight or that can see into
the Ethereal Plane sees the spirit floating around the
target and menacing its foes. Until the spell ends, any
creature that can see the spirit and that isn’t immune
to being frightened has disadvantage on attack rolls
against the target. Whenever the target hits with an
attack against a creature within 30 feet of it that can
see the spirit and is immune to being frightened,
the spirit lashes out, causing the attack to deal an
additional 1d6 force damage.
If the target drops to 0 hit points before this
spell ends, you can use a bonus action to choose a
new target for the spirit. The new target must be a
creature within 30 feet of you that you can see, and it
must not have been the previous target’s enemy.
The spell ends early if you cast another spell that
calls one or more spirits from beyond the veil.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using
a spell slot of 6th or 7th level, you can maintain your
concentration on the spell for up to 1 hour. When you
use a spell slot of 8th level, you can maintain your
concentration on the spell for up to 8 hours. When
you use a spell slot of 9th level, the spell lasts for 8
hours without requiring concentration, though the
spell still ends early if you cast it again.
Last Rites
1st-level necromancy (ritual)
Casting Time: 10 minutes
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (powdered lead worth at least
10 gp, which the spell consumes)
Duration: Instantaneous
You perform a special rite to protect the sanctity of a
deceased creature and usher its spirit into the next
world. When you cast this spell, choose one of the
following ceremonies, the target of which must be
within 10 feet of you throughout the casting.
Cleanse Corpse. You touch a diseased or poisoned
corpse and prevent it from transmitting the disease
or poison within it.
Determine Cause. You touch a corpse who
died of unknown circumstances and learn the
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 general nature of the death (starvation, poisoning,
disease, etc.).
Peaceful Passing. You touch a willing creature,
who then dies painlessly and immediately. They
cannot be returned to life by any means short of a
wish spell unless they want to be resurrected.
Marked Grave. You touch a corpse of unknown
identity and learn the name of the creature, if
they had one.
Sanctified Body. You touch a corpse during a
funeral ceremony and prevent it from becoming
undead by any means short of a wish spell for the
next 7 days.
Lay to Rest
Abjuration cantrip
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 60 feet
Components: V, S, M (a shamanic focus
or holy water)
Duration: Instantaneous
You point at a creature you can see within range and
attempt to purge it of necrotic energy. The target
must succeed on a Charisma saving throw or take
1d8 force damage. The damage increases to 1d10 if
the target is undead.
An undead reduced to 0 hit points with this spell
is destroyed and its soul is sent to the afterlife,
cleansed of the necromantic magic reanimating it.
The creature can never again unwillingly be made
undead by any means short of a wish spell.
The spell’s damage increases by one die when
you reach 5th level (2d8 or 2d10), 11th level (3d8 or
3d10), and 17th level (4d8 or 4d10).
Make Camp
1st-level abjuration (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (a tent)
Duration: 8 hours
When you cast this spell while setting up camp, the
area within 20 feet of where you cast this spell gains
the following benefits until the spell ends.
• Nonmagical weather and climate effects will not
harm anyone within the area.
• Beasts will not enter the area unless magically
compelled to do so.
• Creatures outside the area have disadvantage on
ability checks to perceive or find the camp, unless
you choose otherwise.
• Creatures who complete a long rest in the area
gain 1d6 temporary hit points at the end of
the long rest.
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Oath-Sealing Covenant
1st-level divination (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 minute
Range: Touch
Components: V, S, M (two rings)
Duration: Until dispelled
When two willing creatures make a promise to one
another, you seal it with magic and a prayer. If either
creature breaks the promise they made, the other
immediately knows the promise has been broken
and this spell ends. If this spell ends as the result
of another spell, both creatures become aware
of that fact.
Possessive Apparition
7th-level conjuration (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a shamanic focus)
Duration: Concentration, up to 10 minutes
You call a covetous spirit from beyond the veil to
attempt to possess a humanoid you can see within
range. The spirit is invisible to most creatures other
than you, though a creature with truesight or that
can see into the Ethereal Plane sees a dark shadow
constricting its victim. The target must succeed on a
Charisma saving throw or be possessed by the spirit,
in which case the spirit then disappears, and the
possessed target is incapacitated and loses control of
its body. The spirit now controls the body but doesn’t
deprive the target of awareness.
While the creature is possessed and the two of
you are on the same plane of existence, you can
telepathically issue commands to the possessing
spirit (no action required), which it does its best
to force the possessed creature to obey. You can
specify a simple and general course of action,
such as “Attack that creature,” “Run over there,” or
“Fetch that object.” The spirit uses the possessed
target’s statistics, traits, and class features, but
doesn’t gain access to the target’s knowledge or
proficiencies. If the possessed creature completes
the order and doesn’t receive further direction from
you, it defends you to the best of its ability, even at
the cost of its own health and safety.
You can use your action to take total and precise
control of the target. Until the end of your next turn,
the creature takes only the actions you choose, and
doesn’t do anything that you don’t allow it to do.
During this time, you can also cause the creature to
use a reaction, but this requires you to use your own
reaction as well.
At the end of each of the target’s turns, it can make
a Charisma saving throw, ending the possession on
a successful save. The possession also ends if the Speak True
body drops to 0 hit points, you end it on your turn Divination cantrip
as a bonus action, or the spirit is turned or forced
out by an effect like the dispel evil and good spell. Casting Time: 1 bonus action
The creature is immune to this spell for 7 days Range: Self
after succeeding on the saving throw against being Components: V, S
possessed or after the possession ends. Duration: 1 minute
If the spirit fails to possess a creature or the When you cast this spell, your honest intentions
possession ends, the spirit reappears in your space, become clearer to those around you. When a
and you can use your action on a subsequent turn creature makes a Wisdom (Insight) check to
to send the spirit to attempt to possess a different determine whether or not you are telling the truth
humanoid you can see within range. before the spell ends, they add your spellcasting
The spell ends early if you cast another spell that ability modifier to the roll.
calls one or more spirits from beyond the veil.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using
an 8th-level spell slot, the duration is concentration,
up to 1 hour. When you use a spell slot of 9th level,
the duration is concentration, up to 8 hours.
Protective Apparitions
2nd-level conjuration (ritual)
Casting Time: 1 action
Range: 30 feet
Components: V, S, M (a shamanic focus)
Duration: 10 minutes
You call three watchful spirits from beyond the veil to
safeguard a creature you can see within range. The
spirits are invisible to most creatures other than you,
though a creature with truesight or that can see into
the Ethereal Plane sees them floating protectively
around the target. Once per turn when the target
takes damage or fails a saving throw, if the source
of the effect is a creature within 30 feet of it, one of
the spirits flies to assault the creature. The creature
takes 2d6 force damage, and the spirit returns to the
spirit world.
The spell ends early if you cast it again, if you cast
another spell that calls one or more spirits from
beyond the veil, or immediately after the last spirit
has returned to the spirit world.
At Higher Levels. When you cast this spell using a
spell slot of 3rd level or higher, you call an additional
spirit for each slot level above 2nd.

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