You are an expert in the medical sciences, a result of many hours of study and training. You are skilled at diagnosing, treating, and curing injures and diseases.
- Skill Proficiencies: Medicine, Nature
- Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism kit
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: A healer's kit or herbalism kit, a set of medical supplies (small pouch with a knife, a piece of soap, a length of string, and ten vials, used to contain anesthetics, antiseptics, medicines, or similar substances), a set of common clothes, and a pouch containing 15 gp
Medical Specialty
To determine your field of medical expertise, roll a d8 or choose from the options in the table below.
| d8 |
Medical Specialty |
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1
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General practicioner
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2
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Surgeon
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3
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Pharmacist
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4
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Toxicologist
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5
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Combat medic
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6
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Travelling doctor
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7
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Medical researcher
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8
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Quack
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Feature: Knowledgable Healer
You can identify diseases, poisons, or injuries after observing a patient or having the symptoms described to you. You also know how to treat people suffering from the ailment. If doing so requires particular medicines, antidotes, or other supplies, you know where these supplies are found or how they can be prepared.
Suggested Characteristics
Physicians are defined by their experience, both with those they save and those they fail to save. All physicians use their gifts to help others, but who they heal, and how they go about it vary between individuals.
| d8 |
Personality Trait |
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1
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Causing wounds pains me greatly.
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2
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Anesthetics are a waste of money; just tough it out.
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3
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I make sure my friends get proper exercise and nutrition, whether they like it or not.
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4
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I frequently diagnose both myself and others with rare diseases or conditions, usually incorrectly.
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5
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I fear death—my own or others'—more than anything else.
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6
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I need to make sure everything around me is clean and sanitary. Always.
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7
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I like talking about my work, although others seem to find it repulsive or gruesome.
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8
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I don't like to use divine magic to heal people. Who knows what's in those spells?
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| d6 |
Ideal |
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1
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Succor. I seek to relieve others of the suffering and agony that is ever-present in the world. (Good)
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2
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Impartiality. I will heal anyone, friend or enemy. (Neutral)
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3
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Innovation. I seek to develop new medicines and techniques to help those in need. (Good)
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4
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Deception. Most people don't know legitimate medical treatment from quackery, a fact I thrive upon. (Evil)
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5
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Greed. People will pay anything to save themselves or their loved ones. (Evil)
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6
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Survival. I am dedicated to ensuring those around me survive, not matter what trials they face. (Any)
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| d6 |
Bond |
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1
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I will not allow anyone to die if I can help it.
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2
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My life was once saved by a doctor, and I work to pay this good deed forward.
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3
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I am one of the foremost experts in a particular medical technique amongst my colleagues.
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4
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I'm ostracized by other physicians, who call my work "depraved", "a corruption of biology", and "a clear violation of experimental ethics".
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5
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I once failed to save someone I held dear. I won't let it happen again.
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6
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Those who spread medical misinformation are my enemies.
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| d6 |
Flaw |
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1
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If can't handle it when someone dies under my care.
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2
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I don't accept pay or gifts from those I heal. I sometimes have trouble affording food.
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3
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Dead bodies are a fantastic opportunity to learn about anantomy!
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4
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I have trouble knowing when a patient is beyond my care, sometimes prolonging their suffering.
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5
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I don't trust new medical advances, preferring to stick to traditional techniques.
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6
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"Controlled trial" is another way to say "waste of time".
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