You work at a hospital, and you spend your time helping those who are mentally ill, or need help recovering from trauma. You have seen many kinds of people, many kinds of mental illnesses, and many types of problems. You may not have been able to help everyone you met, but you certainly helped at least someone.

When you choose this background, you should think of how it was like to help the mentally ill and troubled, and how it might've affected your character. What kind of experiences did your character have? Why were they a Therapist in the first place? Were there any patients who deeply affected you? Why did you quit your job to go adventuring?

Skill Proficiencies: Persuasion, Insight

Tool Proficiencies: One type of gaming set

Languages: Any two of your choice (must be languages the common races speak)

Equipment: A set of business clothes, a set of casual clothes, records of the place you worked at &  your performance during your time there, a deck of cards, a coin purse containing 20 gp

Suggested Characteristics

Your time working at the Hospital has taken it's effect on you, both good and bad, as you have been around the mentally ill and troubled.

d8 Personality Trait

1    I'm a professional, I do not show very much emotion

2    I constantly think about the patients who I couldn't help

3    I have much experience with people, acting as a moral compass or leader when need be.

4    I'm very happy to be of use, and provide assistance when I can

5    I'm not quick to trust people on what they say, they might be lying or flat-out insane

6    I carefully work my way to the source of a problem, whether it be in combat, strategy, or people

7    I'm very inquisitive, always working towards the truth

8    I've never been known to let a problem be, and am always working towards fixing everything I can.

 

d6 Ideal

1    Always Helping. I'm never not up to help someone work through something. (Good)

2    Dependability. I'm someone you can trust, so if you need to tell someone something, you can tell me. (Lawful)

3    I'm Always Here. If you need a shoulder to cry on, someone to trust with a secret, or just generally a person to help you with something, I'm here. (Chaotic)

4    Secrets. Knowing how others tick, and their deepest secrets makes me feel safe, so I can later use it against them. (Evil)

5    Distant. I try my best to be emotionally uninvolved in anything I do that involves other people. (Neutral)

6     Professional. Helping people is all that matters. Nothing more, nothing less. (Any)

 

d6 Bond

1    I am in dept to the people I have treated, for they have help me grow as a person as well.

2    The reason I help people in the first place is because I got help when I needed it most, and for that, kind souls will always have my respect.

3    I fight to show people that there is always someone out there willing to help.

4    I will never forget my time as a Therapist, it was nice to meet all those people.

5    Mental illness is one big problem already, having evil liches and the like running around isn't gonna help with that.

6    I have a responsibility to help people, because if I can't, what's the point of being a Therapist?

 

d6 Flaw

1    I believe that everyone has some dark secret, and I must be the one to help them.

2    I'm not actually as reliable as I think I am.

3    I have made patient(s) worse than when they got into my care, and this haunts me. It will be a secret I will take to my grave.

4    Anyone who I have seen do the slightest harm to innocents are lowly and disgusting.

5    I betray no emotion, there's no point in being sentimental.

6    I'm constantly looking for problems to solve, even if I'm the one who has to create them.