You've lived a life dedicated to preventing disease and healing the sick. Whether this calling is one you chose or was forced upon you doesn't matter anymore. In the time you've been performing these duties, you've touched many lives, for better or for worse.
- Skill Proficiencies: Medicine, Sleight of Hand
- Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism kit, Playing Card Set
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: A Book of notes on your medical findings, a Healer's Kit, a set of fine clothes, a herbalism kit, a Playing Card Set and 10 gp
Why did you choose to become a Doctor? What made you pursue this life? Was it a sense of duty? Making up for a past mistake? Or was it a way to make the most coin? Discuss this with your DM.
| d8 | Life of Service |
|---|---|
| 1 | I was trying to cure an incurable disease. |
| 2 | I was partaking of communal with other professionals in my field. |
| 3 | I was ostracised for malpractice. |
| 4 | I retreated to the lab after a life altering event. |
| 5 | I needed to work in my own space to complete a vaccination. |
| 6 | I needed to be among the people, to know what I was curing. |
| 7 | I was an ancient tome of anatomical secrets. |
| 8 | I was a travelling to help as may people as I could. |
Your former life as a professional grants you a unique set of skills. You know how to quickly patch up wounds, given the right tools. As an action, you can expend one use of a healer's kit to tend to a creature you touch. The creature can spend one Hit Die and roll it, adding both it's Constitution modifier and your Intelligence modifier to it. The creature regains hit points equal to the total (minimum of 1).
You have a detailed understanding of anatomy and can use this knowledge to your advantage. You can use your Intelligence modifier instead of your Wisdom modifier for Medicine Checks.
Suggested Characteristics
Some doctors are well-suited to a life of intense lab work, whereas others are lauded by their community. Regardless of whether they seek to help or fame, they must heal the sick and this in turn will shape them.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I’ve been working for so long that I rarely speak, preferring gestures and the occasional grunt. |
| 2 | I am utterly serene, even in the face of disaster. |
| 3 | The leader of my community had something wise to say on every topic, and I am eager to share that wisdom. |
| 4 | I feel tremendous empathy for all who suffer. |
| 5 | I’m oblivious to etiquette and social expectations. |
| 6 | I connect everything that happens to me to a grand, cosmic plan. |
| 7 | I often get lost in my own thoughts and contemplation, becoming oblivious to my surroundings. |
| 8 | I am working on a grand philosophical theory and love sharing my ideas. |
| d6 | Ideal |
|---|---|
| 1 | Greater Good. My gifts are meant to be shared with all, not used for my own benefit. (Good) |
| 2 | Logic. Emotions must not cloud our sense of what is right and true, or our logical thinking. (Lawful) |
| 3 | Free Thinking. Inquiry and curiosity are the pillars of progress. (Chaotic) |
| 4 | Power. Science and advancement are paths toward mystical or magical power. (Evil) |
| 5 | Live and Let Live. I am here to heal the sick, nothing more. (Neutral) |
| 6 | Self-Knowledge. If you know yourself, there’s nothing left to know. (Any) |
| d6 | Bond |
|---|---|
| 1 | Nothing is more important than the other members of my hermitage, order, or association. |
| 2 | I entered became a doctor to help those in need. But some have taken exception to that and now hunt me. |
| 3 | I’m still seeking the answers I pursued in my research, and they still elude me. |
| 4 | I entered this field because I loved someone I could not cure. |
| 5 | Should my findings come to light, it could bring ruin to the world. |
| 6 | My research gave me great insight into a terrible disease that only I can cure. |
| d6 | Flaw |
|---|---|
| 1 | Now that I’ve returned from the lab, I enjoy its delights a little too much. |
| 2 | I harbor bloodthirsty thoughts that my oaths and practices fail to quell. |
| 3 | I am dogmatic in my thoughts and philosophy. |
| 4 | I let my need to win arguments overshadow friendships and harmony. |
| 5 | I’d risk too much to uncover a lost bit of knowledge. |
| 6 | I like keeping secrets and won’t share them with anyone. |
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