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?
Ability Scores: Dexterity, Intelligence, Wisdom
Feat: Unknown
Skill Proficiencies: Medicine, Sleight of Hand
Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Kit.
Equipment Choose A or B: (A) 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, at set of traveler's clothes, and a belt pouch containing 15 gp, or (B) 50 gp
Specialty
As a doctor, you likely specialize in a particular field and manner of medicine. Choose one specialty, or roll on the table below.
| d10 | Specialty |
|---|---|
| 1 | Apothecary |
| 2 | Battlefield Medic |
| 3 | Dentist |
| 4 | Spiritual Healer |
| 5 | Medical Arcanist |
| 6 | Herbalist |
| 7 | Nurse |
| 8 | Surgeon |
| 9 | Veterinarian |
| 10 | Psychologist |