Physicians and magical healers are often hesitant to do the messy physical work required to truly help their patients. This is where you come in. With the razors and clippers you require to style heads and faces, you already have the tools for surgery. You put those who see you regularly at ease, but others are aware that your appearance could signal death
- Skill Proficiencies: Medicine, Sleight of Hand
- Tool Proficiencies: herbalism kit
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: haircare and grooming essentials, an herbalism kit, a healer’s kit, common clothes, a dark surgery and barber smock, and a pouch containing 15 gp
The barber surgeon’s dual responsibilities are necessary for most functioning communities, to the point where they become fixtures. Even if you leave the town where you first practiced, there’s a customer base that you understand better than the rest. You can select your core clientele or roll one randomly on the Core Clientele table.
d6
1 Caravaneers
2 Clergy
3 Merchants
4 Nobility
5 Sailors
6 Students
You are extrodinarly percise and careful in your work. You only need to expend half of a use of a healer’s kit to stabilize a creature. People the whole world around understand the importance of your duties. If you are in an area with an adequate supply and you do not have one, you can requisition a healer’s kit or an herbalism kit free of charge
Suggested Characteristics
Barber surgeons are products of necessity. They work where the supply of other healers is short or in places like the battlefield, where the demand is increased. First and foremost, they are barbers. They must maintain a working relationship with the people they serve.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I can’t help but get involved in my clients' lives. |
| 2 | I have a surgery story for any body part you could name. |
| 3 | Other healers speaking down to me drives me nuts. |
| 4 | I never stop studying style or anatomy. |
| 5 | I’ve seen the life pass from someone’s eyes and I can’t let it happen again. |
| 6 | I’m such a sweetheart; I have no idea why people are so nervous around me. |
| 7 | There are some people that will never come back to me because we have a bad dialogue. |
| 8 | I spend so much time helping others that I often look in need of help myself. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Charity. I upcharge my services to the elite so I can afford to make the poor feel and look better. (Good) |
| 2 | Community. My services are but a small part of an orderly, healthy society. (Lawful) |
| 3 | Freedom. Everyone needs my talents, allowing me to travel anywhere. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Knowledge. People often let slip useful or valuable information in my presence. (Evil) |
| 5 | People. I love working with different types of people and learning more about them. (Neutral) |
| 6 | Redemption. I’ve hurt too many people, but with this craft I can help more. (Good) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | I scraped my way out of poverty by becoming indispensable to my community. |
| 2 | My military service saved so many lives that I’ve been receiving unwanted attention back home. |
| 3 | The problems, ailments, and styles of my current clientele bore me to no end. |
| 4 | I didn’t even think about using my tools for surgery until someone dear to me died in another surgeon’s care. |
| 5 | I’ve fallen in love with one of my clients |
| 6 | A band of youngsters is learning from me, off the books of course. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | I can only perform my best work under the influence of drugs. |
| 2 | I keep every secret of my trade, to the point where I rarely work with an audience. |
| 3 | I can’t tell some of my clients apart, even those who tell me very personal stories. |
| 4 | No one does a better job in my field than me |
| 5 | People need my services and they need to pay me whatever I want for them |
| 6 | I judge everyone’s appearance, often and loudly |
You’re relatively new to the craft of surgery and you were chosen just for your tools. You have proficiency in Persuasion instead of Medicine. Instead of the Well-Respected Talent feature, you gain the Entertainer’s By Popular Demand feature when you offer your services rather than a performance.
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