# Tradition of the Shaman *[occultist](Compendium/👨🏻‍🤝‍👨🏻%20-%20Player%20Options/Classes/Occultist/occultist.md): Occult Tradition* *Source: Kibbles' Compendium of Legends and Legacies p. 30* > [!tldr] Class and Feature Progression > > <table class="class-progression"> > <thead> > <tr><th colspan='3'></th></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><th class"level">Level</th><th class"pb">PB</th><th class"feature">Features</th></tr> > </thead><tbody> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">1st</td><td class"pb">+2</td><td class"feature"><a href='#Tradition of the Shaman (Level 1)' class='internal-link'>Tradition of the Shaman</a></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">2nd</td><td class"pb">+2</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">3rd</td><td class"pb">+2</td><td class"feature"><a href='#Empowered Spirits (Level 3)' class='internal-link'>Empowered Spirits</a></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">4th</td><td class"pb">+2</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">5th</td><td class"pb">+3</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">6th</td><td class"pb">+3</td><td class"feature"><a href='#Extra Attack (Level 6)' class='internal-link'>Extra Attack</a></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">7th</td><td class"pb">+3</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">8th</td><td class"pb">+3</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">9th</td><td class"pb">+4</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">10th</td><td class"pb">+4</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">11th</td><td class"pb">+4</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">12th</td><td class"pb">+4</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">13th</td><td class"pb">+5</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">14th</td><td class"pb">+5</td><td class"feature"><a href='#Spiritual Empowerment (Level 14)' class='internal-link'>Spiritual Empowerment</a></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">15th</td><td class"pb">+5</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">16th</td><td class"pb">+5</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">17th</td><td class"pb">+6</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">18th</td><td class"pb">+6</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">19th</td><td class"pb">+6</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > <tr class="class-progression"><td class"level">20th</td><td class"pb">+6</td><td class"feature"></td></tr> > </tbody></table> ^class-progression ## Class Features ### Tradition of the Shaman (Level 1) A shaman is an Occultist that walks the paths of the spirits, binding them to their cause to empower themselves or bring havoc to their foes. Tough and powerful, they are most often found in the thick of the fight, wreathed in their primal power. A shaman may view themselves as in service to their spirits or as served by the spirits; the what and the how of their contract can vary wildly, as can the source of their spirits, be it pulling from ancestral or primal powers. ### Spiritual Warrior (Level 1) When you select this subclass, you gain proficiency in simple weapons, medium armor and shields. You can add your Wisdom modifier in place of your Dexterity modifier for calculating the AC of light or medium armor. Additionally, your hit point maximum increases by 1 and increases by 1 again whenever you gain a level in this class. ### Call Spirit (Level 1) Starting at 1st level, as a bonus action you can call a spirit to your side. This can be a primal spirit of fire, cold, or lightning, or an ancestral spirit with radiant or necrotic power. This bond lasts for 10 minutes once formed. You can release a spirit early as an action, and it is immediately released if you call another spirit. While a spirit is bonded to you, your melee weapon attacks deal an additional `d4` damage of the spirit's type. When you call it or as a bonus action while it is bonded, you can manifest the spirit in a space you can see within 30 feet of you. The spirit is medium sized but spectral in nature while manifested. While the spirit is manifested, whenever you take the attack action you may replace any number of attacks you could normally take with melee spell attacks from your bonded spirit. On a hit, this melee spell attack deals `d4` + your Wisdom modifier damage of the spirit's type. As a bonus action you can move it up to 30 feet in any direction or recall it to yourself, ending its manifestation. A manifested spirit cannot move more than 60 feet from you, and is recalled to you if you are ever more than 60 feet from it. ### Empowered Spirits (Level 3) Starting at 3rd level, when you call a spirit, you can expend a spell slot to empower that spirit. An empowered spirit adds additional damage to your weapon and deals additional manifested damage based on the level of the spell slot expended, its damage becomes the amount shown in the Empowered Spirits table. While the spirit is called and not manifested, at the start of each of your turns, you gain temporary hit points equal to the level of the spell slot spent to empower it. **Empowered Spirits** | Slot | Bonus Weapon Damage | Manifested Damage | Temporary Hit Points | |------|---------------------|-------------------|----------------------| | 1st | 1d6 | 2d4 | 1 | | 2nd | 1d8 | 2d6 | 2 | | 3rd | 1d10 | 2d6 | 3 | | 4th | 1d12 | 2d8 | 4 | | 5th | 1d12 | 2d8 | 5 | ^empowered-spirits ### Extra Attack (Level 6) Beginning at 6th level, you can attack twice, instead of once, whenever you take the Attack action on your turn. If you have a manifested spirit, you can replace one or both attacks with the spirit's melee spell attack. ### Spiritual Empowerment (Level 14) Starting at 14th level, when you cast a spell of 1st level or higher, you can make a single weapon attack as a bonus action. If you have a manifested spirit, you can attack with it in place of making a weapon attack.