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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 7677157" data-attributes="member: 18182">Nice? Well, yeah, it'd be nice. But a business would be pretty foolish to put money and manpower into something that isn't anything more than a nice gesture to placate a relatively small section of their fanbase.Articles on Greyhawkian monsters, character types, or other crunchy bits would make great Dragon Magazine articles . . . but that kind of publication doesn't exist right now. The Unearthed Arcana articles serve a different purpose, to give us "needed" crunchy bits in playtest form that might eventually make it into a new product. WotC didn't do something "nice" by giving us Eberron crunchy bits in UA, they gave us playtest versions of unique character options that would be vital for a future Eberron product, one of their more popular settings that would make sense to revisit in a new product.WotC will never admit it (nor should they), but we will never see a new Greyhawk product. Well, never say never, but it's pretty darned unlikely. Making a UA article on Greyhawk crunch a waste of resources. A nice waste, but a waste nonetheless. Besides, I can't really think of anything a Greyhawk campaign "needs" to have converted to 5E . . .In the real world, shamans are a distinct "role" from the druids of Europe, and are found all over the world in hunter-gatherer and nomadic societies. It needs to be its own class. IMO, of course!But I hope WotC never touches the term of "witch doctor" or anything resembling it. Witch doctors are a real world concept, and a D&D version would most certainly fit as a shaman subclass . . . but the term has some pretty negative and racist connotations it has acquired over the years, and would not be a good fit for D&D, IMO. Especially because the "humanoid" witch doctors found in early D&D were very racist caricatures of "primitive" divine spellcasters and made me cringe even as a kid. I wouldn't mind a respectfully done "medicine man" or "sangoma" shaman subclass, however . . .</blockquote>

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