Shaman (Barbarian)

Benefits

• Spheres — Major: All, Charm, Combat, Divination, Protection. Minor: Animal, Creation, Plant, Weather.
• Talisman: a gourd shaker filled with bird bones.
• Dream reading: touch a sleeper and make a Wisdom check to observe, but not affect, the dream. At will, up to 5 rounds per hour. It is a trance state and any disturbance ends it.
• Clairvoyance: once per day for a number of rounds equal to his level, on any known location — as the 3rd-level wizard spell, with no components or casting time.
• Dream implant: once per day, by touch. The target saves vs. spell or the Dreamwalker spends up to 5 trance rounds editing or implanting dreams — denying restful sleep (so no natural hp or spell recovery), giving a nightmare (FEAR on the next day's encounter if the save failed), soothing, or planting misleading information. He cannot force acts against the subject's morals or sense, nor alter personality; the DM adjudicates.
• Death dream (9th level and up): once per month, 5 rounds of contact with a sleeper of level or HD no greater than his own. If uninterrupted, roll 1d10 as the save vs. death magic: a failure does nothing, a success drops the target to 0 hp, and a natural 10 backfires, putting the Dreamwalker into TEMPORAL STASIS.

Hindrances

• Needs 7 hours of sleep or gets no kit benefits the next day. The light sleeping proficiency may cut this to 1 hour.
• While using any kit benefit his AC becomes a flat 10, regardless of armor or magic.

Benefits

• Spheres — Major: All, Combat, Divination, Elemental, Weather. Minor: Charm, Healing, Necromantic, Protection.
• Talisman: his own flame form.
• Flame form (7th level and up): becomes a 5-ft sphere of fire for up to an hour, twice per day. AC 4, same hp per level. Flies at MV 9 (MC B) with no land rate. All-round vision means he cannot be surprised; smell and hearing are normal. Heat is regulated at will from warm-water to inferno; at full heat, contact ignites flammables and a touch deals 2d4 hp. He extends 1-4 flame tentacles at will with a 10-ft reach, controlling their number and length; he cannot wield weapons but lashes for up to 4 attacks per round, each tentacle at a different target, for 2d4 hp per hit. Immune to all fire, magical and normal.
• Speak with flames: once per day, on a Wisdom check, a natural fire gives one honest one-word or short-phrase answer. A fire knows only local events that happened while it burned.

Hindrances

• In flame form he cannot speak and cannot cast spells.
• In flame form he takes double damage from all cold attacks.
• In flame form, contact with a gallon or more of water forces a save vs. spell or he reverts. Quench-type spells and frost items inflict 3d8 and force reversion; the DM adjudicates others.

Benefits

• Spheres — Major: All, Healing, Necromantic. Minor: Charm, Guardian, Protection.
• Destroy disease: cures disease or poison in ANOTHER, never himself, once per five levels per week. He lays on hands and saves vs. death magic; a success is an instant CURE DISEASE or NEUTRALIZE POISON that also restores every hp lost to the affliction. The affliction then manifests as a skull-shaped entity — 1d4+1 hp, AC 10, visible and targetable only by the Medicine Man, immune to magic, unable to move or attack, following him. He must destroy it within 2 rounds or absorb the disease or poison himself.
• Medicine belt: once per month, after a day gathering in his homeland, a day crafting, and a save vs. death magic. A success yields a belt granting (d6): 1 = -1 AC; 2 = -2 AC; 3 = +2 saves vs. spell; 4 = double natural healing; 5 = immunity to natural disease and poison (not to anything pre-existing); 6 = +1 to all saves. It lasts 1d4+1 weeks.

Hindrances

• Cannot turn undead at all, and carries no talisman.
• Last rites are owed to every human, humanoid, and demihuman corpse he encounters: a food offering, a prayer of one round or less, and a few words of parting advice. For battlefield masses, 2-3 suffice at the DM's discretion. Skeletal remains and undead are exempt. Skipping the rites costs him all spellcasting for 24 hours, though the DM may waive it for inaccessible corpses.

Benefits

• Spheres: the standard shaman set.
• Talisman: an ngunga branch, a limb carved into the shape of a man.
• Identification: once per day, touching remains of any age, whole or partial, or an object, plus one round and a Wisdom check, gives a one-round mental image of the creature, or of the item's last possessor of at least a day.
• Know motivation: once per day, pointing at a subject plus a Wisdom check reveals their fundamental drive in general terms — hunger, fear, greed, affection, anger. Blocked by mind protection and useless on mindless creatures.
• Immune to all forms of fear.

Hindrances

• Victory ritual within one hour after each successful combat, where the DM judges it applicable (hunting and sport are exempt). The ritual is fixed at the start of his career: taking and displaying trophies for a day; carving a tribal mark at the site; purifying the site with water and petals; or 10 or more rounds of silent thanks. Skipping it costs all benefits and all spells for 24 hours.

Benefits

• Spheres: the standard shaman set.
• Talisman: the totem bone.
• Spirit armor: a constant -3 AC bonus (to a maximum of AC 0), half damage from all undead attacks, and level drains halved (minimum 1). A DISPEL MAGIC against the Spiritist's level removes it for 24 hours with no save, and evil priests can turn the armor as though it were a ghost — turned, it is gone for a day.
• Spirit horde: once per day, on a Wisdom check, harassing spirits arrive one round later and afflict opponents totalling HD or levels no greater than the Spiritist's level with -1 to AC, attack, and damage for a number of rounds equal to his level. Blocked by PROTECTION FROM EVIL and similar.
• Speak with spirits: once per day, one round plus a Wisdom check, as SPEAK WITH DEAD (3rd-level priest, no components or casting time) — but only with creatures he knew in life AND of his own alignment.

Hindrances

• NO barbarian physical skills: leaping, springing, back protection, and climbing are all as a normal human.
• Spirit war: any natural 20 rolled on speak-with-spirits or spirit-horde conscripts his spirit that night. On waking, roll d20 (Table 26): 1-10 nothing; 11-13 takes 2d4 hp of damage; 14-16 cursed for 24 hours (-1 morale and attacks); 17-18 no spirit armor for 24 hours; 19 spirit armor is -4 for 24 hours; 20 one weapon of the DM's choice acts as +2 for 24 hours.
• Without his totem bone he has no kit benefits and cannot cast 3rd-level or higher spells.

Benefits

• Spheres — Major: All, Charm, Combat, Necromantic, Protection. Minor: Divination, Elemental, Healing, Sun.
• Talisman: a red-dyed rat or lizard skull on a sharpened stick.
• M'loa doll: a clay or mud figurine 4-6 inches tall, made from homeland materials and embedded with the target's organic matter, a fragment of an owned item, or partially eaten food. It dries for a day; only one exists at a time; the target must be on the same plane, at any range. Damaging the doll succeeds automatically, takes a full round, and may be done at most once per hour for 4 total uses before it crumbles to dust. The target saves vs. spell with the Table 27 modifiers or takes 3d6 hp. Modifiers to the TARGET's save, cumulative, applying all that fit: Witchman's level at or below the target's level/HD = +2; the Witchman can see the target = -1; the Witchman inflicted physical damage on the target in the last 24 hours, by weapon, spell, or the doll = -2; Witchman level 1-3 = +2, 4-6 = +1, 7-12 = 0, 13+ = -2.
• Bestow curse: once per week on a visible target — one round of staring, then one round with hands on his tattoo. A save vs. spell negates; a failure is BESTOW CURSE as the 4th-level wizard spell. A natural 20 on the target's save backfires the curse onto the Witchman.

Hindrances

• Cannot turn wraiths, spectres, or ghosts, and takes double physical damage from those three. Their level drain is normal.
• -3 reaction penalty with all outworld NPCs, stacking with the standard barbarian penalties.