Nurse

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Nurse

Evidence based. You are not a simple healer, hedge doctor, or sage. With tired; but sure hands, you care for your patients. You recognize the holistic nature of the healing arts. And as a result of this, can identify the connection between the physical, metaphysical, and psychological better than most. Be it dressing a wound or listening to the regretful musings of the old town drunk, your presence is resonant, calming, and usually well received. Your life is one released to subservience and to the strength of your team. Or; have you become jaded by the hypocrisy found in helping those who refuse to accept it? Tired of helping the sick who foster their own despair, you revolt. Releasing yourself from the bonds of your trade you use your knowledge to hurt instead of heal. You recognize
Skill Proficiencies: Medicine, Nature
Tool Proficiencies: Herbalism Kit
Languages: one of your choice
Equipment: a set of common clothes, a healers kit, a roll of bandages, two scalpels, and a pouch containing 10gp

Feature: Breath of Life

Evidence based. You are not a simple healer, hedge doctor, or sage. With tired; but sure hands, you care for your patients. You recognize the holistic nature of the healing arts. And as a result of this, can identify the connection between the physical, metaphysical, and psychological better than most. Be it dressing a wound or listening to the regretful musings of the old town drunk, your presence is resonant, calming, and usually well received. Your life is one released to subservience and to the strength of your team. Or; have you become jaded by the hypocrisy found in helping those who refuse to accept it? Tired of helping the sick who foster their own despair, you revolt. Releasing yourself from the bonds of your trade you use your knowledge to hurt instead of heal. You recognize that death has the ultimate curative effect. What happened to drive you towards one of these paths; to leave the familiarity of your home; to become, an adventurer?

Suggested Characteristics

Specialization (d6)

1Trauma
2Pediatrics
3Geriatrics
4Operating Room
5Critical Care
6Administration

Personality Traits (d8)

1I frequently make up what I can not remember.
2I accept that this job is dirty, hard, and thankless.
3I feel that the best practices are those which are tried and true.
4I prefer the night shift. /wink
5I think that doctors are only able to function because we let them.
6I doubt my ability to keep doing this and maintain my sanity.
7A personal loss drives me.
8I hold my profession above all others.

Ideals (d6)

1aid. Every sick or wounded person deserves my help, regardless of the life they lead. (Good)
2choice. Everyone should do what they love at some point in life. (Chaotic)
3greed. Sure i will help you. If you pay. (evil)
4Growth. I always try to improve. (any)
5survival. We are all in this together, for better or for worse. (Neutral)
6Empathy. I don’t want people to suffer. (Good)

Bonds (d6)

1Many of my relatives were wanted criminals. I feel a duty to end this pattern.
2The world wishes for me to save, so I will.
3My job is my life.
4I am empathetic towards those who have lost loved ones to death or disease and try to help them.
5Family is everything to me.
6I took up the profession because someone close to me died of something treatable.

Flaws (d6)

1The sight of blood makes me queasy, and I can only treat those who have no external wounds
2I put others before myself too often, and as a result I don't take very good care of myself.
3Why do adventurers never bathe? It's annoying and disguising.
4The injuries I've seen have haunted me
5I have a tell that reveals when I’m lying.
6I have an obsession with death.


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