Which class for monstrous shamans?

[Slaved]

Shillelagh does not even touch greatclubs. Just staves and clubs.

A greatclub isnt a club? It sounds close enough to me. The description of the item even says it is just a two handed version of a regular club.

I'd say otherwise.

What otherwise are you saying? Your picture is exactly where I was looking and it copies my explination.

 

[Thurbane]

Witch alternate spell list from the DMG. Nobody ever gives that list any love.

Wow, can't believe I never noticed that before - many thanks.

 

[Felix]

Wow, can't believe I never noticed that before - many thanks.

Hey, I'm just spreading the Good News of the Witch alt.spell list. Keep the faith, brother!

 

[frankthedm]

A greatclub isnt a club? It sounds close enough to me. The description of the item even says it is just a two handed version of a regular club.

Club does not equal Greatclub in this ruleset.

Greatclub is a martial weapon with it's own weapon entry. Anyone other than a Barbarian, fighter, paladin, or ranger who tries to use it suffer -4 to hit unless they have spent a feat to wield it. I have seen it be house ruled by many DMs to be simple* but that is a separate issue. A medium druid is free to wield a large club in two hands, but that deals 1d8 damage and inflicts -2 to hit due to it being sized for a large creature.

shillelagh affects clubs and quarterstaves.

* I prefer simple for those with a str of 13 and up.

 

[Jhaelen]

Just curious, which class(es) do you generally use to represent monstrous shamans (humanoids, giants etc.) in your games?

Depending on the specific kind of humanoid I selected one class that may fill the role of a 'healer'. I've used all of the classes you mentioned above except sorcerers, which I consider to be a pure 'blaster', even though that is not strictly true.

Actually I picked one class for each of the four main roles (blaster, healer, warrior, expert) for each of the main humanoids I use in my campaign. Since some classes can fill several roles not all humanoid races have four different classes.

 

[Slaved]

Club does not equal Greatclub in this ruleset.

3.5 players handbook page 118

Greatclub: A greatclub is a two-handed version of a regular club.