You have dedicated your life to perfecting your medical abilities, studying anatomy and researching disease so that you could utilize your trade on the ailing populace. Perhaps you began as the only doctor in a small town or maybe you were a field medic, healing injured soldiers during the heat of battle. Maybe you are straitlaced and follow your teachers diagrams by heart or maybe you slip coin to those willing to steal you a cadaver from the cemetery in the dead of night so that you may learn for yourself. Whatever your origins, you have spent most of your life learning how to heal a broken body with or without the aid of magic.
- Skill Proficiencies: Persuasion, Medicine
- Languages: Two of your choice
- Equipment: A book medical journal, 5 vials of simple tonic (for benign ailments), healer's kit, alchemist's supplies or a herbalism kit, a quill, a bottle of black ink, a set of common clothes clothes, common, and a pouch containing 15 gp.
Feature: A Respectable Profession
- As a doctor, you are considered respectable and trustworthy by most people and at least tolerable by others until you prove otherwise. You are viewed as an invaluable member of society by those not of a higher social standing and will be welcomed in most communities in exchange for your medical services.
Suggested Characteristics
Doctors are dedicated to the art of healing, their motives behind which can vary.
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Where others might find certain ailments or injuries disgusting, I find them utterly fascinating.
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2
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I have seen so many gruesome things to the point where nothing phases me anymore.
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3
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I speak in an overly cheery voice to whoever i'm treating
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4
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I use long words and overly complicated medical jargon
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5
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I am compulsively cleanly and am uncomfortible with un-sterile conditions.
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6
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I can be very condesending when people question my diagnosis
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7
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Once I get to work on something I become hyperfocused.
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8
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I hand out small treats or trinkets after I finish healing someone.
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Ideal |
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Distance. Don't get attached and do what you can. No more, no less. (Neutral)
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2
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Duty. It is my duty as a medical professional to treat the ill and infirm under any circumstances. (Good)
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3
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Experimentation. To truly learn we need to get creative sometimes and see what happens. (Chaotic)
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4
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If you can't afford my treatment then it's no concern of mine if you die. (Evil)
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5
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Order. The rules of medicine and the knowledge in books is there for a reason, follow it strictly because medicine is no place to take risks. (Lawful)
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6
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Aspiration. I seek to prove myself as the most trustworthy and intelegent of my field. (Any)
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Bond |
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1
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There is a terrible illness I seek the cure of
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2
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I was banned from practicing medicine in my home town because of something I did.
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3
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I look up to and respect my mentor above all others.
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4
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I have a special interest in treating those who otherwise couldn't afford it.
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5
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I feel a crippliling guilt for every patient I have failed.
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6
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I seek to advance the art of medicine through any means possible.
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Flaw |
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I think my opinion is more valid than everyone elses.
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2
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I put too much trust in scholars without questioning their motives.
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3
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I sometimes steal medicines to take when I don't need them.
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4
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I value money above lives.
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5
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I can be tactless and overly clinical with little to no bedside manor.
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6
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some of my experiments and studdies could be concidered taboo.
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