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Specialized in the treatment of the suffering, you do what you can to help and heal as many people and animals as you can. As a result, you find yourself not staying in any place too long as there is always more healing to do elsewhere. You have earned the title "Wandering Healer" from the people who have heard of your good deeds. In your time you have seen all kinds of injury, disease, poison, and death, and many are indebted to your work.

 
Skill Proficiencies: Medicine, plus 2 other skills
Tool Proficiencies:  Herbalism kit or Alchemist’s supplies
Equipment:

A holy symbol, a healer’s kit, an herbalism kit, a scroll case stuffed full of notes from your studies, prayers, or meditations and a certificate identifying you as a healer, a set of traveler’s clothes, and a pouch containing 5 gp.

 
Healer Role

As there can be many kind of healers within the Multiverse, you may choose to base your role on one of the roles below, or in a unique one you do not see here. This is simply a means of inspiration for aspiring Medicine Folk.

d8

Healer Role

1

Village healer

2

Part of a retinue of town healers

3

Field chirurgeon for an army

4

A displaced healer

5

Member of a Healing Clergy

6

A member of a City Hospital

7

A tribal healer, curandero/a, or spiritual guide

8

A disgraced or failed healer

 

d8 Healer Role
1 Village healer
2 Part of a retinue of town healers
3 Field chirurgeon for an army
4 A displaced healer
5 Member of a healing clergy
6 Member of a city hospital
7 Tribal healer, curandero/a, or other spiritual guide
8 A disgraced or failed healer
 
Feature: Sought After Profession

If someone in a town needs healing or an evaluation of health, they may offer to feed and house your party for a night in exchange for your help with their ailment. If the illness is widespread, you may even receive upscale accommodations from a lord, mayor, or other official. 

Furthermore, once you have healed someone, they tend to trust you. They may reveal important information that might usually be hard to ask about while you patch them up. Maybe the liquor you prescribed to help with the pain is a bit of help in this regard too. 

 
Suggested Characteristics

The world is a cruel and brutal place, and people are always looking for cures, help, and sympathy, an apothecary deals in all three, and with a divine sense of right, for most healers. Atheistic ones exist, and can still pledge for the good of others.

d8

Personality Trait

1

I feel tremendous empathy for all who suffer.

2

I can find common ground between the fiercest enemies, empathizing with them and always working toward peace.

3

I see omens in every event and action. The gods try to speak to us, we just need to listen.

4

Nothing can shake my optimistic attitude.

5

After having so many people's lives in my hands, it is hard to remember that some things are still out of my control.

6

Failure devastates me.

7

I am always seeking facts, and sometimes lose track of other people's feelings in this search.

8

I don't get grossed out very easily, and sometimes share too many details about my medical exploits.

 

d8

Ideal

1

Pacifism. I swore a hippocratic oath to do no harm - I most often defend my causes by making my confrontational friends stronger. (Good)

2

Charity. I always try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost. (Good)

3

Forgiveness. Everyone deserves a second chance. (Neutral)

4

Progress. I have recorded years of my practices, and always offer to share them with other healers so that medical sciences may advance. (Lawful)

5

Faith. I trust that my deity will guide my actions. I have faith that if I work hard, things will go well. (Lawful)

6

Experimentation. Sometimes even though I know what will work, I can't resist trying something new. (Chaotic)

7

Reward. I will help even the most vile person if something valuable is in it for me. (Evil)

8

Recognition. I want my name to be known by every medical student in generations to come. (Any)

  

d7

Bond

1

The healer who trained me saved my life, but I couldn't save theirs.

2

I learned the arts of healing because a family member has an ailment that no one can diagnose.

3

I am one of the last people practicing my tribe's way of herbal healing, and I fight to keep it alive and pass it on to the next generation.

4

Everything I do is for the common people.

5

I have a pet that I have nursed back from death's door and if anyone hurts them, nothing can stop me from killing them.

6

I found a book of advanced medical diagrams but I can't read the language that it is written in.

7

A patient died on me one night when I was too exhausted to treat them effectively, and the next morning I knew exactly what I should have done to save their life

 

d6

Flaw

1

I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely.

2

I may sacrifice my ideals if someone promises me knowledge that I do not have.

3

I am always wiling to get a little too close to monsters because I can't help wondering about their anatomy.

4

I might pretend that a deadly disease is treatable if someone is paying me enough to treat them.

5

I secretly love the carnage of war because it presents me with new and fun wounds to treat.

6

I feel I always know what is best for someone and never fail to make that known

 

 

d8 Personality Trait
1 I feel tremendous empathy for all who suffer.
2 I can find common ground between the fiercest enemies, empathizing with them and always working toward peace.
3 I see omens in every event and action. The gods try to speak to us, we just need to listen.
4 Nothing can shake my optimistic attitude.
5 After having so many people's lives in my hands, it is hard to remember that some things are still out of my control.
6 Failure devastates me.
7 I am always seeking facts, and sometimes lose track of other people's feelings in this search.
8 I don't get grossed out very easily, and sometimes share too many details about my medical exploits.
d8 Ideal
1 Pacifism. I swore a solemn oath to do no harm; most often, I defend my causes by empowering my bellipotent friends. (Good)
2 Charity. I always try to help those in need, no matter what the personal cost. (Good)
3 Forgiveness. Everyone deserves a second chance. (Neutral)
4 Progress. I have recorded years of my practices, and always offer to share them with other healers so that medical sciences may advance. (Lawful)
5 Faith. I trust that my deity will guide my actions. I have faith that if I work hard, things will go well. (Lawful)
6 Experimentation. Sometimes even though I know what will work, I can't resist trying something new. (Chaotic)
7 Reward. I will help even the most vile person if something valuable is in it for me. (Evil)
8 Recognition. I want my name to be known by every apprentice healer in generations to come. (Any)
d8 Bond
1 The healer who trained me saved my life, but I couldn't save theirs.
2 I learned the arts of healing because a family member has an ailment that no one can diagnose.
3 I am one of the last people practicing my tribe's way of herbal healing, and I fight to keep it alive and pass it on to the next generation.
4 Everything I do is for the common people.
5 I have a pet that I have nursed back from death's door and if anyone hurts them, nothing can stop me from killing them.
6 I found a book of advanced medical diagrams but I can't read the language that it is written in.
7 One of my wards died on my watch one night when I was too exhausted to treat them effectively, and the next morning I knew exactly what I should have done to save their life.
8 My childhood was typical. Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring we'd make meat helmets.
d8 Flaw
1 I judge others harshly, and myself even more severely.
2 I may sacrifice my ideals if someone promises me knowledge that I do not have.
3 I made sacrifices for my profession that I now regret.
4 I might pretend that a deadly disease is treatable if someone is paying me enough to treat them.
5 I secretly love the carnage of war because it presents me with new and fun wounds to treat.
6 I feel I always know what is best for someone and never fail to make that known.
7 It's Dr. Evil. I didn't spend six years in Evil Medical School to be called "mister," thank you very much.
8 Why Must I Be Surrounded By Frickin’ Idiots?
 

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