You have dedicated hours and hours of your life to healing people and saving lives. Countless late nights have been spent reading and researching, putting together your medical supplies and writing down your doctor's notes. You are an experienced mixer of herbs and crafter of medicines, and your need to learn more about treating poisons has also made you adept at using and treating such substances. People owe you their lives and the lives of their loved ones, and wherever it is you come from was made better by your presence.

Discuss with your DM where you learned your medical skills, who taught you the things you know, and where you worked before leaving your medical practice behind to adventure. Also discuss why you left your comfortable position as a local doctor. Were you chased out of town by religious zealots, or called a witch for your skills? Was the town you were healing destroyed, or did you lose one too many patients to stay where you were? Whatever the case, you are an adventurer now.

Skill Proficiencies: Medicine, and your choice of Insight or Investigation

Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism kit, poisoner's kit

Languages: Any one language of your choice

Equipment: A long white coat, a set of common clothes, a healer's kit, your choice of a herbalism kit or a poisoner's kit, a journal of medical notes, an ink pen and 1 ounce bottle of ink, a scroll of medical credentials, and a leather pouch containing 20 gp

Suggested Characteristics

As a doctor, you are one of the most prominent figures of the town in which you practiced your craft. People in that town know you, and being in constant contact with them, and their illnesses, has shaped your personality. Additionally, you may have gained your ideals from your experiences with those people, and your bonds and flaws are likely to have formed based on your successes and failures with these people.

d8	Personality Trait
1	Nothing is more rewarding than the smile of a cured child.
2	My patience is often worn thin by the ignorance of my patients.
3	I have a dark sense of humour that catches others off-guard.
4	I revel in the mystery of a new ailment.
5	I enjoy the amount of status and power my career grants me.
6	My studious mind and impeccable brain often leave others in the conversational dust.
7	I have grown to be patient due to the uneducated nature of many of my patients.
8	Believe me, I know better than you what this ailment is. I don't want to hear your theories. I need silence to work.

d6	Ideal
1	Study. I will endeavour to always continue learning new ways to heal the people I have dedicated myself to. (Lawful)
2	Experimentation. I know that I can outdo those cloistered scholars who write the journals on medicine. I just need to test my theories. (Chaotic)
3	Power. I wield the power of life and death in my hands whenever I treat a patient. They would do well to remember that. (Evil)
4	Helpfulness. It feels good to be able to look at an ailment or injury, turn to someone, and tell them that I can help them. (Good)
5	Vow. I made a vow to use my skills to heal the sick and injured. I do not discriminate in terms of good and evil. (Neutral)
6	Profit. My career as a doctor is what puts food on my table and protects myself and those I care for. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	Someone I love is ailed by a mystery disease, and I will not rest until I have found the cure.
2	I have discovered a mutated disease that must be stopped before it can grow to become a pandemic.
3	I will never forget the first patient I ever lost, nor their loved ones.
4	The person who taught me medicine changed my life forever. I owe them everything.
5	I cannot bring myself to take a life, having spent so much time saving them.
6	There was a student I studied my craft beside. I never told them how I felt about them before we graduated.

d6	Flaw
1	I often fail to see a patient, and instead see a bag of symptoms.
2	I am constantly paranoid about becoming sick from my patients.
3	Not all of my medical practices have been ethical or legal, per se.
4	I wash away the stresses of my work with drinks and bought company.
5	I am fascinated by the anatomy of creatures I have yet to study.
6	I have killed a patient in the past due to a simple mistake I made while distracted by their pretty loved one.