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Message: <blockquote data-quote="squibbles" data-source="post: 8411972" data-attributes="member: 6937590">I was about to disagree with you by citing some <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/shamanism" target="_blank">shamanism</a> <a href="https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/shamanism" target="_blank">definitions</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a> article, which treat the term shaman as a broad category, i.e. "Shamanism is a religion which is based on the belief that the world is controlled by good and evil spirits, and that these spirits can be directed by people with special powers."That sounds like a reasonable brush to paint the Druid class with, while tolerating the overlap that it might also be a reasonable brush to paint some cleric characters with (but that's not a lot different from the redundancy of the words wizard, sorcerer, and warlock).But I then went on to read section <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamanism#Criticism_of_the_term" target="_blank">1.3 of the Wikipedia article, "Criticisms of the term"</a>, which suggests that the word Shaman is a tad contentious. So, eh... that name change doesn't seem like it would be a grand improvement.</blockquote>