Shaman Aspects

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Shaman Aspects

Post by Drowboy » Mon Nov 23, 2020 1:41 pm

Stealing a bit from pathfinder and other sources here. I see a lot of mentions that shamans feel a bit like they're missing something, which isn't a hard thing to think when you look at how good elemental shape/dragon shape etc are here comparatively. So.

Aspects: Shamans now gain a bonus feat at, say, 7, 14, 21, 28. This bonus feat can only be used to select from the list of aspects.
You can have one aspect active at a time, and swapping/activating them is, say, a full-round action. They are (vague ideas totally not yoinked from PF) as follows:

Ancestors: You channel ancestral spirits to help you in battle.
You gain: soft AB boost, maybe a little damage and DI.
At 28, this becomes an aura that gives x% of your bonus to allies within it.

Bones: You channel an aspect of the grave.
You gain: Boosted necromancy spells, spontaneous radial casts of a couple of the nec spells shaman is missing.
At 28, you gain some minor undead-like traits while channeling. (AC, temp hp, idk)

Flames: You channel the hungering flame.
You gain: A small movement boost, a little extra damage to elemental spells, a small amount of health restored on kills.
At 28, you gain a damaging fire aura.

Life: You channel the forces of life to aid yourself and allies.
You gain: Empowered healing spells.

..And so on in that sort of manner. A handful of choices, maybe on a long cooldown, which give a variety of small scaling effects, probably intended to boost certain playstyles: One to allow for battleshamans that get an actual use out of use poison, healer-types, so on, so forth.

Maybe if switching them is too much, make the choice a bit more impactful and allow you to only grab one at level ten.
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Re: Shaman Aspects

Post by garrbear758 » Tue Nov 24, 2020 7:18 pm

Approved, although mechanics are subject to change, and this may or may not be tied into a spirit companion feature.
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Re: Shaman Aspects

Post by garrbear758 » Wed Jan 06, 2021 4:48 am

Moving to denied as we are going in a different direction with some shaman buffs.
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