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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FrogReaver" data-source="post: 7042878" data-attributes="member: 6795602">One design paradigm of 5e that has been unexplored is to take a class and make a variant of it.  For example your Witch Doctor/Shaman could be a Variant Wizard with it's own new and limited spell list including a few special spells and access to a few spells wizards don't normally get.  If the new spells alone weren't enough to compensate then you would add a few abilities to the package for flavor and so forth.  If needed more room specific abilities of that Variant then you cut out part of the wizard features and replace them with your new Variant features.  You could even modify a few of the wizardy abilities that you get to be more flavorful to this variant Shaman concept.  *Note the Wizard may not be the best chasis for the above class but I still think the Variant class idea could cover a lot more unexplored space easier than coming up with totally brand new features for level 1-20 in many cases.</blockquote>