You spent years researching herbs and chemicals in search of new cures to heal your community. You gathered and dispensed medicine to civilian and healer alike, but have also stood in the place of a surgeon or midwife when such persons were absent. You might have run a small pharmacy of your own, or perhaps worked for a school or temple as a researcher, focusing your work solely on uncovering new remedies.

Skill Proficiencies: Medicine, Investigation

Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Kit

Languages: One of your choice

Equipment: A herbalism kit, a book on medicine and herbs, a bottle of black ink, a quill, a set of common clothes and a belt pouch containing 15gp.

Suggested Characteristics

Apothecaries are shaped by their experiences with life, death and the moments in-between. The impact of their successes and failures weighs on their conscious, carrying with them a guilt for those patients who fell ill before discovering the cure or lacked the coin to pay for a remedy.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I refuse to lie to patients - if they are going to die, then I will tell them clearly and bluntly.
2	I will happily explain anything and everything about my work to anyone willing to listen.
3	I have a strange fascination with disease and gore that I try my best to hide.
4	I am horribly pessimistic and can always list hundreds of ways anything can go wrong.
5	I find it hard not to get emotional when handling patients, especially if they get emotional too.
6	As much as I try not to, I cannot help but judge when people make poor health decisions, especially when I have warned them not too.
7	I refuse to admit defeat or lose hope, even if it means lying to a patient's face.
8	Sometimes, the best medicine is no medicine - people underestimate the power of being well-rested or having a full stomach.

d6	Ideal
1	Intuition. I am picky about who I sell medicine to and refuse to sell to those who I believe are not worthy or may not need it. (Evil)
2	The Greater Good. Every patient deserves access to my remedies, even if it means losing coin or giving medicine for free. (Good)
3	Certainty. I refuse to use experimental or risky remedies, even if they may be better than what I am already using. (Lawful)
4	Aspiration. I will go to any length to discover a cure, even if it means sacrificing my own health. (Any)
5	Progress. I will use the new and risky medicine, even if dubious, for the sake of research and the chance of being better than what I have now. (Chaotic)
6	Greatest Good. Saving even one innocent life is well worth sacrificing hundreds of those less innocent. (Neutral)

d6	Bond
1	The patients I served mean the world to me - they're like my family.
2	A person I love dearly has fallen ill with an unknown illness, and I will be the one to discover the cure.
3	My book of medicine is the culmination of all my life's work and research. To lose it would be enough to send me to my grave.
4	My pharmacy has been the pride of my family for generations, and I will do anything to keep it running.
5	I hope to bring prestige to the school or mentor who taught me medicine and honor the vow I made to them.
6	I suffer from an illness that I hope to one day cure myself of.

d6	Flaw
1	I use the proper terms for all illnesses, wounds and herbs, even if it compromises my ability to communicate.
2	I have become desensitized to pain, fear or suffering to the point where I feel only apathy.
3	I made a careless mistake that cost innocent lives—and I would do anything to keep that mistake secret.
4	I'd rather poison myself than admit I don't have a cure to a patient's face.
5	When terrible plagues have broken out, I used my patients' desperation to swindle more coin than I'd like to admit.
6	Without my book to guide me, I wouldn't even be able to tell the difference between a leaf or a root.