You have seen injury, disease, poison, and death, and still you have defied it all, fighting to save that every last soul. As a medical professional, you have sworn a Hippocratic oath, (code of ethics). You have pledged your life to protect life, that all who suffer are your patient, to support other doctors as family, to train any who swear the oath, to practice to the best of your ability, to always improve upon the art, to practice only your specialization, to practice not for your own gain, to practice within the law, and to keep all of your patients' secrets. Why did you turn away from the medical profession? Or if you have not, what was it that drew you into the life of the adventurer? And what do you think of the oath, or other doctors?
- Skill Proficiencies: You gain proficiency in Insight and Medicine
- Tool Proficiencies: You gain proficiency in Healer's Kit. This works exactly as the "Healer" feat.
- Languages: You gain proficiency in a language of your choice.
- Equipment:
Healer's kit, 2-man tent, bedroll, blanket, Book (About anatomy, disease, apothecary, or surgery), common clothes, five bars of soap, a belt pouch containing 5 gp.
Due to your vow, you are expected to cure the ill, regardless of morals or prejudice, even if they are your enemy. It is considered a horrid evil to intentionally kill a doctor for no reason. As such, intelligent humanoid enemies are less likely to target you and even your enemy patients will at least not attack immediately while under your care. What happens after they leave your care...? Well you cannot decide their fate.
Restored individuals may be grateful or feel some form of life-debt to you. Enemies may repay you by specifically choosing not to kill you, or they may give free information, or a scout you once saved may turn a blind eye to your presence.
Provided you stay true to your vow, (as best as you can) you can make use of any hospital or medical facility, (typically located in churches, noble estates, universities, and other places of higher learning) as temporary residence for yourself, your patient(s), and your companions if there is room for them.
Suggested Characteristics
Most doctors are intelligent and highly devoted to the vow they have taken to heal the injured.
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