Editing Shaman (section)

===2nd Edition===
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Shamans appeared in [[Advanced Dungeons & Dragons#AD&D 2nd Edition|Advanced Dungeons & Dragons' 2nd Edition]], alongside the [[Barbarian]], in the [[splatbook]] [[Complete Book Series|"The Complete Barbarian's Handbook"]]. It was a variant [[Cleric]], much like how the [[Barbarian]] of that edition was a variant [[Fighter]], and had the same "pre-Iron Age" cultural baggage.<br>
Its abilities boiled down to increased mobility, with similar (but less effective) climbing, running and leaping bonuses as to the Barbarian. It can't [[Turn Undead]] unless it worships a deity with some control over the dead, and even then it does so at a lesser ability compared to the normal cleric. It also doesn't get bonus spells for high wisdom, can't use scrolls due to being illiterate (at least initially), and is in general a really shitty, underpowered class.

An alternative version of the Shaman was one of the [[kits]] introduced in [[Complete Book Series|The Complete Book of Humanoids]], as one of the [[Cleric]] kits. This version was no less shitty, being a physically frailer (D6 hit dice instead of D8) [[cleric]] with watered down spellcasting, no ability to [[Turn Undead]], and forsaking all of the [[Raise Dead]] spells for access to the far less useful [[Reincarnation]] spell instead. The [[Witch Doctor]] appeared in the same book as a variant Shaman with some limited access to [[Wizard]] spells. It was, somehow, even worse than the shaman was.

[[Dragon Magazine|Dragon Magazine #251]] introduced another kit-based shaman type caster in the form of the [[Obeah]].