ACG Errata: Unsworn Shaman


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ACG Errata: Unsworn Minor Spirit wrote:

(changes in bold) "Minor Spirit (Su): At 1st level, the unsworn shaman also forms a temporary bond with a minor spirit each day, granting her access to a shaman or witch hex of her choosing, but not a major hex or a grand hex. She must make this selection each day when she prepares her spells for the day. Until she changes the minor spirit, she continues to have access to the witch hex. At 2nd level, she can instead select a hex from one of her wandering spirits selected for that day. If she selects a witch hex, she treats her shaman level as her witch level, and uses her Wisdom in place of her Intelligence for the purpose of that hex.

She can make temporary bonds with two minor spirits (thus gaining two hexes) at 4th level, and with one additional minor spirit (and hex) every 4 levels thereafter. This ability replaces spirit and alters hex."

This seemingly doesn't allow access to Hexes of your Spirits granted via Minor Spirit, while allowing Hexes from Wandering Spirit?

Allowing "Shaman Hexes" in this ability only seems to allow "generic" Shaman Hexes, i.e. not the Spirit Hexes, which are normally granted per the Spirit ability of vanilla Shaman (which Unsworn gives up):
"She also adds the hexes possessed by that spirit to the list of hexes that she can use with the hex and wandering hex class features."
(incidentally, I don't know why it mentions wandering hex there, it's not appropriate, and wandering hex already handles that)

Also, is it intended that Unsworn Shaman gains the Spirit Magic spells of Wandering Spirit (whose bonus spells feature isn't modified by the archetype), but not that of the "Minor Spirits" which are replacing Spirit (and it's language about bonus spells from said Spirit)? IF this is intended, it seems that Spirit Magic's text should be altered to only reference Wandering Spirit, and not Spirit. (or if it's intended to work with the Minor Spirits, it should be modified to reference Minor Spirit instead of Spirit)

Unsworn doesn't replace or modify Manifestations (20th level capstone), which references Spirit: What do you do here?

Liberty's Edge

This is super old but I came across it and I wanted to clarify in case someone else did or in case the OP was still wondering 3 years later...

Rule wise you are just picking a shaman/witch hex. Flavor wise your are communing with an otherwise undefined minor spirit whose sole power is the one hex you picked. This is why it doesn't mention picking one of the minor spirit's hexes, because you aren't actually picking one of the "major" spirits listed for shamans, so there aren't any spirit hexes to pick from. I.E. if you pick the slumber hex, then the minor spirit might be the spirit of your bed role or your favorite pillow. The identity of the spirit is open ended fluff, aside from the fact that it's a "minor" spirit so it should probably be the spirit of a specific place or object or a very narrow concept, if you even bother identifying it at all.

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