You are trained as a healer and a medical practitioner who makes a living by treating and/or studying diseases, maladies, and injuries. Most doctors typically intend to heal such conditions, though there are some who are more concerned with research and study than actually helping people.
Whatever your priorities, your background is characterized by the medical knowledge you picked up as you plied your trade as a doctor. You may be a town medicine man, a medic who has healed wounded soldiers, or a tribal shaman or witch doctor.
Skill Proficiencies: Medicine, Nature
Tool Proficiencies: Choose two from alchemist's supplies, herbalism kit, and poisoner's kit
Equipment: A piece of doctor's equipment (such as a scalpel, pouch of aromatic herbs, or a small mirror), a healer's kit, a token of appreciation given to you by a patient, a set of traveler's clothes, and a belt pouch containing 15 gp
Medical Specialty
Each doctor has a field of specialization and technique within the broader art of medicine. Choose a specialty, or roll on the table below.
Medical Specialties
| d10 |
Specialty |
| 1 |
Apothecary |
| 2 |
Battlefield medic |
| 3 |
Coroner |
| 4 |
Spiritual healer |
| 5 |
Midwife |
| 6 |
Local doctor |
| 7 |
Herbalist |
| 8 |
Plague doctor |
| 9 |
Surgeon |
| 10 |
Veterinarian |
Feature: Medical Notoriety
Your talents make you highly sought after, particularly in regions or communities with little access to medicine. Those who recognize you as a doctor may request your services and may offer you a reward in return should you choose to provide them. You might be able to receive free or discounted food and lodging, or gain access to normally off-limits locations by leveraging your position as a medical practitioner if your services are needed.
Suggested Characteristics
Medical practitioners have studied the inner workings of life, seeking to understand how the body heals itself when afflicted by illness, injury, and disease, as well as what herbs and treatments can facilitate healing. This study makes some doctors humble in the face of the vast unknown, but fills others with self importance.
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