Medicine

Special Rules

You require tools in order to perform medicine checks on open wounds such as from slashing damage or bites.

If you attempt a medicine check on a creature suffering from a disease, you are exposed to the disease if you roll less than a 4 on the base die.

Checks that require you remove an object from inside a creature such as an arrow or parasite, deal damage equal to the tier of the object(minimum 1 if no tier is known).

Difficulty Modifiers

DC begins at 0, each of the following adds +5.

• Active Danger: Something is actively opposing your check such as attacking you or attempting to flee.
• Blades: You need to utilize a bladed tool as part of the check.
• Bones: The wound or issue being treated threatens the targets bones in some manner.
• Combat: You are performing the check in combat, whether or not anyone is actively attacking you.
• Dangerous: The activity has some inherent threat such as being a contact transmitted disease or poison.
• Disease: Some diseases specifically increase the difficulty of checks associated with them.
• No information: You have no information on what the medical issue is beyond whether it is a wound, disease, or poison. This applies twice if you don't even know that much.
• Organs: The wound or issue being treated threatens the targets organs in some manner.
• Poison: Some poisons specifically increase the difficulty of checks associated with them.
• Showy: You just want to show off and make it more difficult for yourself.

Example tools

The following items are examples of tools for Medicine:

Bandages(d4, TDC 5), Surgical Knife(d4, TDC 10), Sewing Supplies(d4, TDC 5)

Powers

Tier 1

• Disease Trainer[You can use Medicine to aid someone who is suffering a disease.]
• First Aid[When you use medicine to aid someone’s resiliency, they remove damage equal to the aid die result.]
• Lifesaver[You are treated as always having at least a d4 tool for treating someone who is drowning.]
• Poison training[You can use Medicine to aid someone who has been poisoned.]
• Quell Bleed[When you treat a creature that is bleeding but no effect is sustaining the bleed, you automatically end the bleeding condition.]
• Scald[You treat Burning weapons as +1 tools for medicine.]
• Splint[Select one form of terrain or biome such as forest, desert, or mountainside. You always count as having a d4 medicine tool when in that kind of terrain.]

Tier 2

• Arithmantic Medicine[If your medicine tool die rolls a prime number(2,3,5, or 7), you gain an additional +1 on that check.]
• Handle the heat(Scald)[You do not risk burning patients accidentally.]
• Site the pearl[You can see soul pearls as they leave dying bodies.]
• Suffer[When you use medicine tools to aid an interrogation, the aid die minimum increases by 1.]
• Time of Death[You can attempt to determine how long something has been dead]{SURVIVAL}
• Long term care[So long as you do nothing other than treat a person's wounds, they recover damage at twice the normal rate.]
• Veterinarian[You can use Medicine to calm injured animals. A calmed animal grants a +1 aid bonus on medicine checks to treat it.]

Tier 3

• Bleeding block[When you aid a creature's resiliency check, you also automatically end ongoing damage effects from abilities lower than your Medicine tier]
• Hobble[When an attack causes an ally's speed to decrease, you may make a Medicine check on the ally against the attack roll. On a success, the speed reduction is removed.]
• Precision burn(Scald)[You treat burning weapons as d4 tools for medicine, and any other burning item as a +1 tool for medicine.]
• Psychiatrist[You may use Medicine to treat madness effects, magical mental diseases and cognitive toxins.]
• Quarantine handling(Disease Trainer)[You do not risk contracting a disease from a creature you are treating.]
• Splint mastery(Splint)[The tool granted by the Splint ability is d6 instead of d4.]
• Surgeon[Damage caused by your Medicine checks do not count toward whether a creature can be killed by their current damage.]