Medical Practitioner


You are a well-trained and studied healer, sworn to cure the ailing and mend the wounded. Your talents may bring you fame and renown, or you might be regarded with suspicion by common people.


When you choose this background, work with your DM to determine the role and prominence of doctors in the world. Is medical knowledge of your kind rare? Are there institutions that teach such healing, and if so, where? Were you self-taught, apprenticed to a village healer, or educated in a medical academy?


NOTE: Some backgrounds have options to choose from. Please read carefully. You may not get every proficiency listed below, as some may be a choice between one or the other.

  • Stat Options (choose either +2 in one stat and +1 in another, OR +1 in all three): Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom
  • Skill Proficiencies (your choice of TWO): Medicine, Nature, or Religion
  • Tool Proficiencies: Healer's Kit or Herbalism Kit
  • Languages: Two Standard languages of choice.

  • Background Keepsake: A small token of appreciation given to you by a patient (value under 10gp)
  • Background Gold: 15gp.

Origin Feat

Origin Skill Focus

You gain a +1 to two different Skills you are proficient in.


Other

Speciality

As a doctor, you likely specialize in a particular field and manner of medicine. Choose one specialty, or roll on the table below.

1 Apothecary

2 Battlefield Magic

3 Dentist

4 Spiritual Healer

5 Medical Arcanist

6 Herbalist

7 Nurse

8 Surgeon

9 Veterinarian

10 Psychologist

Personality

Please select TWO from the list below.

d8 Personality Trait
1 I am sympathetic to anyone in pain.
2 I have a tendency to become focused on my work to the exclusion of everyone else.
3 I like to explain my theories of medicine to anyone who will listen.
4 I have seen too much horror to be affected by scenes of suffering.
5 I am skeptical of magic and instead I trust in the sciences.
6 When someone is injured I will drop all other responsibilities to tend to them.
7 I am constantly taking note of potential signs and symptoms in the people I meet.
8 I take every opportunity I can get to wash my hands.

Ideal

Please select one from the list below.

d6 Ideal Trait
1 Empathy. All I care about is the relief my skills bring to others.
2 Change. Those who seek to cure must be as adaptable as those who seek to harm.
3 Respect. The sick and dying deserve to be treated with dignity.
4 Greed. Those in need of my services will pay through the nose to get them.
5 Efficiency. I must not lot my emotions cloud my ability to do my job.
6 Preservation. Life must be preserved by any means.

Bond

Please select one from the list below.

d6 Bond Trait
1 I'll always remember the place where I learned my medical skills.
2 Nothing is more important than my patients.
3 I am working on a cure for the plague that decimated my home.
4 Someone I loved died of an illness. I want to spare others from the same fate.
5 I am compiling my medical discoveries in a series of tomes- which I hope will educate future generations.
6 I have a terminal disease and I am trying to find a cure before it's too late.

Flaw

Please select one from the list below.

d6 Flaw Trait
1 I am haunted by the memories of every patient I could not save.
2 I use hard drink to numb myself to stress.
3 I am disgusted by the body's potential for filth and disease.
4 I make more mistakes than I should- a fact that I hide even from myself.
5 I have a propensity to see my patients as opportunities instead of people.
6 I am hesitant to injure others- even in self-defense.