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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pheaver" data-source="post: 2260848" data-attributes="member: 23093">I play a Spirit Shaman in an RPGA campaign.  I originally made him in order to test out a class I've never seen played at medium levels (since the campaign made 7th level characters to start with), and am now up to 11th.The Spirit Shaman is pretty powerful.  I think it might be more powerful than a normal druid in some cases.  Unlike other sorcerer-style casters (lots of spells, little selection), you don't lose a level of spellcasting.  At 7th level, you have 4th level spells, just like a druid.  You just have only one of them at that level to cast a few times a day, so make it a good one. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />For my character, I picked Augment Summoning and took a few summon spells, with Augment Healing and a Cure Serious, and then put the druid no-save blast spells (Produce Flame, Ice Storm, etc) at other levels.  I did this because having two-stat dependency is rough on a small point buy build spellcaster (25 points).  So I pretty much ignored Charisma (took a 10) and bumped up Wisdom.  If you're playing in a campaign with a higher point buy, or you roll your stats, you can probably get around the dual-stat problem.Ironically, I've never used Chastise Spirits.  The few times it came up, I could either hit the lone spirit monster fighting us for some damage, save for half, or summon / no-save blast / heal, and the latter was always the tactically better choice.  Most of the other abilities haven't come up too much either, but I've only played him a half-dozen times.  I like the ethereal ability a lot.I like the Spirit Shaman class.  If you're someone who wants to play a non-shifting druid character, and doesn't like animal companions, this class is ideal.  It sometimes has the sorcerer problem of only having a few choices in combats, and little to do outside of combat, but it's still been fun to play.Paul</blockquote>

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