Whether through magics or knowledge of the natural world, you have dedicated yourself to ensuring the health of those around you. Through your dedication to your study, you have become and adept healer, able to aid those that others cannot. As a physician, you have an acute knowledge of medicines and physiology. Your studies may have taken you in several directions. You might have learned to identify plants and animals for their use in healing tinctures and balms as well as their potential to poison or cause disease. You might have developed a keen sense for reading your patients thoughts and feelings to better diagnose their ailments and provide better care and comfort.
People often turn to you for guidance, and your reputation as a caregiver precedes you, making you a core member of your community. Whether you like it or not, your advice is often sought for both personal matters and those impacting the whole community. What has called you away from your post and into the fray of adventure? Has someone taken your place while you are away or are your people without their healer?
- Skill Proficiencies: Medicine, one of Insight or Nature (must choose Insight if Court Physician)
- Tool Proficiencies: One of Herbalism Kit or Alchemist's Supplies. May instead gain proficiency in Poisoner's Kit if Court Physician variant is selected.
- Languages: One common language spoken by the community you worked in
- Equipment: An herbalism kit, a healer's kit, a set of physician's robes, a set of common clothes, or fine clothes if a Court Physician, a token from a patient you couldn't save, and a pouch containing 10 gp
Your skills and experience as a physician have led your patients to develop a sense of trust with you. During and shortly after the time you are healing someone, they tend to be more open to sharing information and are less likely to meet a prying question with hostility, but might still resort to lying or avoiding a question to save face or to avoid self-incriminating. Additionally, folks are glad to have you and your skills around and are willing to provide you with room and board, within their means, if they require your services.
Suggested Characteristics
A physician is often a pillar of their community and is highly respected by those around them. In return, a physic is often fiercely committed to the health and wellbeing of their neighbours.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I'm something of a loner and don't associate with the people around me more than is necessary. |
| 2 | I am an avid learner and am always seeking new knowledge in medicine and physiology. |
| 3 | When I set my mind to something, I follow through no matter what gets in my way. |
| 4 | I like to pry into people's affairs, even if I have no reason to do so. |
| 5 | I take great pride in my role as a pillar of the community. |
| 6 | I am often uninterested in what is happening in the world and would rather focus on my duties. |
| 7 | I am keen to learn of the goings on around me through others. |
| 8 | I get a sense of fulfillment from listening to people and offering advice. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Respect. People deserve to be treated with dignity and find comfort and peace in their life (Good) |
| 2 | Fairness. All people are deserving of help, regardless of their past (Lawful) |
| 3 | Freedom. Society is oppressive and we must fight against it (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Power. I can manipulate my position to receive the power and prestige I crave (Evil) |
| 5 | Sincerity. There’s no good in pretending to be something I’m not. (Neutral) |
| 6 | Resilience. Nothing can deter me from my mission. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I am devoted to my community and will do whatever I can to help them. |
| 2 | I am devoted to my work to heal and help whoever I can |
| 3 | I once watched many die horrible deaths and refuse to let it happen on my watch again. |
| 4 | I was raised to be the healer I am today, and continue to honour my mentors who taught me everything I know. |
| 5 | I protect those who cannot protect themselves. |
| 6 | I oppose a regime and my work is pivotal to the resistance. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I have a flagrant disregard for authority, especially when it stands in the way of my duties. |
| 2 | I will risk life and limb in order to help someone else without a second thought. |
| 3 | I have no patience for the way people prattle on about the banality of their lives when I have much more important things to do. |
| 4 | My work is harrowing and draining and I often turn to my vices to cope. |
| 5 | My work as a healer is second to the power and privilege it can afford me. |
| 6 | I often lie to protect people from truths I know they would rather not hear. |
Contacts
If you live in an urban area or under the jurisdiction of a political entity such as a kingdom or republic, you might belong to a College of Physicians who trains and regulates its members as well as provide them with assistance and materials if necessary. If you do not live in such an area where a College may reach or wish to practice your craft without the restrictions of such an organization, you may practice independent of a college. If you have taken the Court Physician variant, you must belong to a College of Physicians.
You have been called to serve in the halls of royalty to treat the ailments of the most esteemed members of society. Your hands have given comfort and healing to lords and ladies, dukes and duchesses, perhaps even a royal family. Your role has given you an acute insight into the machinations of noble society—whose wife is whose mistress, who has attempted to poison each other. As such, the nobles treat you with a cautious respect, despite your lower station. You live comfortably well and are accustomed to the customs and oddities of high society. Being directly involved with the most important members of society, you must belong to a College of Physicians and account to them for your actions.
As with your lower physician counterparts, you have a very strong grasp of medicine, though you have not had much opportunity to explore the natural world for its risks and benefits to your medical practice. With this variant you must take insight as your second skill proficiency. The intensities of court intrigue, however, make a knowledge of poisons much more useful: you may gain proficiency with a poisoner's kit with this variant.
What has called you away from court? Has a noble or royal tasked you with a mission or have you left of your own volition? Were you allowed to or were you forced to resign your post?
Even in other near kingdoms, you are known to the nobility, and for good reason. Your intimate knowledge of their affairs has made them hesitant to upset you and they are willing to provide you aid, within reason, to keep you in their good graces. As such, you can arrange an audience with a noble with little effort and know pertinent gossip you can ply to bolster your attempts to gain their assistance.
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