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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Helldritch" data-source="post: 8056308" data-attributes="member: 6855114">Not really impressed with either of them.The bard screams: "I want to be a shaman! But I'll get a randomized ability so that I don't look like one..." There is a reasons that we don't see many wild magic sorcerers... The next most useful ability (spirit session) takes up two hours to set up. And only for divination or necromantic magic. A nice way to get dancing skeletons?The warlock is a bit better but would not rate high on my list of all time favourite. "Form of dread" almost encourages any fighter type to take a 1 level dip into the warlock. Untied to charisma, it could mean disadvantage to any attackers trying to attack the character. I can imagine a Barblock using this along with reckless assault. I attack with advantage, you attack me normally. DC would be charisma, so not a big DC but now imagine a paladin/warlock... The second ability to change damage to necrotic is a bit meh. The additionnal dice is nice but warlock do arcane damage with EB. Arcane is the least resisted damage type in the game. So in effect, the necrotic damage is not that great. But for a melee char, it still not bad. But this high, only a pact of the blade lock would benefit from this.The next ability can be used only if you "die" and only 1 every 1d4 long rest... Powerful yes, but also very trivial. And you get a level of exhaustion to boot. They should really make a shaman class... Maybe for the PHB 2?</blockquote>

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