Whether you were a tribal witch-doctor, a medicine man, an arcane healer, a holy man, a field medic, or a formally trained physician, you specialize in the treatment of the suffering.You have seen all kinds of injury, disease, poison, and death, and many are indebted to your work.
- Skill Proficiencies: Medicine, Nature
- Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Kit
- Languages: One of your choice
- Equipment: 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 common clothes, and a pouch containing 5 gp
Healers come in many varieties - from the academically trained physician to the villager who helps their neighbors in need with simple folk remedies and attentive care. All share the bond of working to treat people who are sick and injured. Very often this places them in positions of respect in the communities where they serve.
| d8 | Medical Tradition |
|---|---|
| 1 | Apprentice in Medicine |
| 2 | Battlefield Medic |
| 3 | Gifted at Healing |
| 4 | Potion or Salve Maker |
| 5 | Spiritual Healer |
| 6 | Surgeon |
| 7 | Trained Doctor |
| 8 | Witch Doctor |
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 a widespread problem, 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
Healers are shaped by their experience in hospitals and battlefields. Their study of the body and history of their profession and their relationships to hospitals, temples, or other orders of healers affect their mannerisms and ideals. Their flaws might be some hidden hypocrisy or dangerous idea, or an ideal or bond taken to an extreme.
| d8 | Personality Trait |
|---|---|
| 1 | I feel tremendous empathy for all who suffer. |
| 2 | I sometimes don't understand why people fight - I always seek to find common ground between enemies and solve other people's conflicts. |
| 3 | After having so many people's lives in my hands, it is hard to remember that some things are still out of my control. |
| 4 | Failure devastates me. |
| 5 | I am always seeking facts, and sometimes lose track of other people's feelings in this search. |
| 6 | My life's work is saving lives. What do you do again? |
| 7 | I understand how bodies work, which informs me on how to hurt them. |
| 8 | I don't get grossed out very easily, and sometimes share too many details about my medical exploits. |
| d6 | 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 | Forgiveness. Everyone deserves a second chance. (Neutral) |
| 3 | Progress. I have recorded years of my practices, and always offer to share them with other healers so that medical sciences may advance. (Lawful) |
| 4 | Experimentation. Sometimes even though I know what will work, I can't resist trying something new. (Chaotic) |
| 5 | Reward. I will help even the most vile person if something valuable is in it for me. (Evil) |
| 6 | Recognition. I want my name to be known by every medical student in generations to come. (Any) |
| d6 | 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 | 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. |
| 5 | I found a book of advanced medical diagrams but I can't read the language that it is written in. |
| 6 | 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 may sacrifice my ideals if someone promises me knowledge that I do not have. |
| 2 | I am always wiling to get a little too close to monsters because I can't help wondering about their anatomy. |
| 3 | I might pretend that a deadly disease is treatable if someone is paying me enough to treat them. |
| 4 | I secretly love the carnage of war because it presents me with new and fun wounds to treat. |
| 5 | Years of tragedy has taught me not to mince words, and I am often so blunt that I am insulting. |
| 6 | I feel I always know what is best for someone and never fail to make that known. |
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