Shaman Spirit Animal, missing info?


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In the class features for Shaman, under Spirit Animal it says:

"p.35 wrote:
]The animal also aids a shaman by granting her a special ability. See the Spirit Animal section on page 47.

The Spirit Animal section says:

p.47 wrote:
The shaman's spirit animal also grants her special powers.

What special powers the animal grants aren't explained as far as I can see. Unless they referring to the benefits gained by having a familiar, such as alertness when the familiar is at hand?

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Scythia wrote:

In the class features for Shaman, under Spirit Animal it says:

"p.35 wrote:
]The animal also aids a shaman by granting her a special ability. See the Spirit Animal section on page 47.

The Spirit Animal section says:

p.47 wrote:
The shaman's spirit animal also grants her special powers.
What special powers the animal grants aren't explained as far as I can see. Unless they referring to the benefits gained by having a familiar, such as alertness when the familiar is at hand?

Each spirit animal ability is noted under each unique spirit.


I believe that is what it is supposed to refer to. The Spirit Animal section on p. 47 does mention that "[t]his ability uses the same rules as the wizard's arcane bond class feature and is treated as a familiar... except as noted below."

The playtest section used different wording here, specifically calling out the skill bonuses. That wording was changed from the playtest for the final version here for some reason, and seems a bit less straightforward.


Alexander Augunas wrote:
Scythia wrote:

In the class features for Shaman, under Spirit Animal it says:

"p.35 wrote:
]The animal also aids a shaman by granting her a special ability. See the Spirit Animal section on page 47.

The Spirit Animal section says:

p.47 wrote:
The shaman's spirit animal also grants her special powers.
What special powers the animal grants aren't explained as far as I can see. Unless they referring to the benefits gained by having a familiar, such as alertness when the familiar is at hand?
Each spirit animal ability is noted under each unique spirit.

Those are the abilities granted to the familiar, not the shaman.


Cthulhudrew wrote:

I believe that is what it is supposed to refer to. The Spirit Animal section on p. 47 does mention that "[t]his ability uses the same rules as the wizard's arcane bond class feature and is treated as a familiar... except as noted below."

The playtest section used different wording here, specifically calling out the skill bonuses. That wording was changed from the playtest for the final version here for some reason, and seems a bit less straightforward.

That was what I suspected, although I had hoped that "special powers" or "special abilities" referred to something more than +3 to a skill.

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