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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6230269" data-attributes="member: 4937">So, I was very unhappy with the 3e Druid class, which I felt had become too self-referential, too divorced from the source material, and too laden with baggage specific to one particular part of Northern Europe.  The replacement for me ended up being the Green Ronin 'Shaman' from their very well done 'Shaman's Handbook'.  I changed up the spell list slightly, since I intended the class to kill the Druid and take his stuff, but it is perhaps the least reworked material I've ever had to incorporate into my house rules.  Really good stuff; very versatile.   Conceivably, with only a few changes, I could have used Shaman as the basis for a unified spell-caster class and I would recommend you doing that.   You could easily use Shaman as priests or wizards of a more traditional sort than D&D encourages (which is based more on late 19th century notions).  Green Ronin also has a book on Witches but I found it to be a bit redundant, as Shaman already incorporated the notion of 'witch' for me.   It's also a bit to modern in it's outlook for my taste.</blockquote>