Physician

You are a trained physician. You probably started out as a simple barber surgeon but received proper training at some point. Perhaps, you attended a structured school or university. Perhaps, it was just a simple apprenticeship under a master physician. Either way, you know more about the mysteries of the human (or other) body than those around you. You know how to identify wounds, diseases and illnesses. You know the materials and methods needed to attend to them.

Skill Proficiencies: Medicine and either Investigation or Survival

Tool Proficiencies: Physician's Tools

Languages: Choose one language.

Equipment: A small knife, a candle, a scroll case stuffed full of notes and drawings, a healer’s kit, a small jar of leeches, a surgeon’s robe, and a belt pouch containing 10 gp.

 

Suggested Characteristics

With great knowledge and skill comes great pride. Many physicians practice for the right reasons and follow a set of strict guidelines. Many do not. It’s a balancing act between truth and morality and the physician is right in the middle.

d8	Personality Trait
1	I save lives. What you do is probably not as important.
2	There’s a reasonable explanation to everything. If I don’t know it, I will find it.
3	I look for those in need because I can help. I almost need the needy.
4	I am constantly pointing out the flaws in others and their arguments, as if diagnosing an illness.
5	I’ve read every scholarly text on medicine. I know what I’m doing.
6	I know there’s a pattern to everything, even if YOU don’t see it.
7	I’ll settle for nothing less than absolute perfection in my work.
8	I know there are greater physicians in the world and I seek to find them.

d6	Ideal
1	A Gift for All. I have been given a gift to share with others, not for my own personal gain. (Good)
2	Logic and Law. Logic can explain everything and I can’t let emotions get in the way of that. (Lawful)
3	New Frontier. Old rules and traditions will not keep me from trying new things in pursuit of greater truths. (Chaotic)
4	Your Life, My Hands. My knowledge and skills with illness and disease give me power over the life of the sick and dying. (Evil)
5	Morals and Medicine. There’s no room for morals in medicine. There is only the cure. (Neutral)
6	Self-Improvement. I know a great deal but not nearly enough. (Any)

d6	Bond
1	I’ve been searching my whole life for the cure to the sickness that killed my mother.
2	I long to return and check on the elderly barber surgeon who first introduced me to medicine.
3	I owe everything to the master surgeon who made me the physician that I am today.
4	I still use my first set of physician’s tools, a treasured possession.
5	I long to visit the school where I became the physician that I am today.
6	I remember my first patient and just how beautiful he/she was.

d6	Flaw
1	Most people run at the site of something hideous while I stop to take notes about it.
2	Unlocking the mysteries of medicine is worth ignoring old religious traditions.
3	I often complicate simple situations in hopes that there’s more than meets the eye.
4	I will stop at nothing to find the cure that evades me.
5	I fear magical healing because it cannot be explained.
6	I let my need to win arguments overshadow friendships and kindness.