Chiurgeon: The Doctor is IN

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Homebrew Class: Chiurgeon


Characteristics: Wisdom, Intelligence, Charisma
Skills: Academic Lore, Brawl, Command, Crafts, Forbidden Lore, Medicae, Perception, Persuasion, Tech-Use
Bonus for Completion: +1 to all Medicae Tests

Lay Healer
Level: 1
Prerequisites: Medicae 2, Academic Lore 1
Feats:
Foresight
*Danger Sense
Skill Focus (Medicae)
Patch Up
Emergency Response
Ease Pain


Medic
Level: 2
Prerequisites: Medicae 3, Academic Lore 2, Skill Focus (Medicae)
Feats:
Evasion
Wholeness of Body
Things to Consider
Break Bad
*Pharmacist
Urgent Care
*Decadence

Chiurgeon
Level: 3
Prerequisites: Medicae 4, Academic Lore 3, Close Wounds
Feats:
Remote Treatment
Jaded
Superior Chiurgeon
*Phantom Prosthetics
Divine Ministration
*Skill Focus (Medicae)
*Channel Energy

Doctor
Level: 4
Prerequisites: Medicae 5, Academic Lore 4, Superior Chiurgeon
Feats:
Immunology
One Hundred Percent Purity
True Grit
Diamond Body
Improved Divine Ministration
*Skill Focus (Medicae)
*Upgraded (Uncommon)

Master Chiurgeon
Level: 5
Prerequisites: Medicae 5, Academic Lore 5, Improved Divine Ministration
Feats:
Instant Therapy
Ki Vector
First Responder
*Specialized Tools
Nerves of Steel
*Feel No Pain

NEW FEATS

First Aid
Seconds save, heal when they're hurt instead of waiting for it to get better. You may make a Medicae test on yourself or an adjacent character (TN 15 + target's current Hit Points) to heal 2 HP plus one for every raise on the test, but only HP loss that the character suffered in the current scene. Characters can only be healed by this feat once per scene and this is a Full Action that provokes when done in combat. This feat does not remove Critical Damage and its effects.

Ease Pain
You may not be able to save their life, but you lessen their suffering. Once per scene per target you may make a medicae test to heal the target 1 HP, with a TN of 5 times the target's current HP. This may not heal Critical Damage and if the test fails the target loses 1 HP instead. This test is a Full Action in combat situations.

Emergency Response
When you or an adjacent ally suffers damage, you may change its damage type as a Reaction Action.

First Responder
You gain a free Reaction that cannot be used to attack or defend.

Immunology
You are immune to all diseases, and take no damage from the Toxic quality.

Improved Divine Ministration
Divine Ministration can be used as a Reaction Action and heals 1d10 Hit Points.

Instant Therapy
As a Half Action, you may make a Medicae+Charisma roll at TN 20. If you succeed, you may remove a point of insanity that an ally gained this round and an additional point for every raise on the test though still no more insanity than the ally gained this round.

Ki Vector
As a Reaction Action, you may grant any creature you touch the effects of a drug you are using for 1d10 rounds.

Patch Up
You may make a normally Full or Half action Medicae Test (Such as attempting to stop Blood Loss) as a Reaction Action in combat.

Phantom Prosthetics
Bionics you install are treated as one quality level higher.

Remote Treatment
By spending a Reaction, you may medically treat a willing target at a distance of up to your Speed in meters.

Superior Chiurgeon
Once per scene, you may reroll a failed Medicae test that you have a specialty in.

OLD NEW FEATS

Break Bad(Alchemist)
With a proper lab, tools, and at least an hour to spare, you can roll Intelligence + Crafts to create drugs. The TN for this test is equal to the TN of the Wealth Test to acquire the drug on the market and on a success crafts one dose of the drug.

Feel No Pain(Sacrificial Lion)
Whether through force of will, bionic augmentation, or foul sorcery; you do not feel pain as much as others do and can fight through fearsome wounds. Whenever you are dealt wounds, roll a d10 for each one. On an 8 or less, take the wound as normal. On a 9 or 10, the wound is negated.

One Hundred Percent Purity (Alchemist)
You may increase or decrease the addictivity of a drug by one step when crafting it and you may double the duration of your drugs where applicable, either in scenes or time.

Pharmacist (Alchemist)
You double the trouble and double the fun. You may mix two different drugs together so that they may both be used at once and you double your yield when crafting drugs.

Specialized Tools (Remodeler)
A true professional never lets their tools sit in the attic collecting dust. Similar to Hammerspace, you are always considered to have the necessary tools to attempt any Skill Test.

Things to Consider (Remodeler)
You can use free raises from Foresight on any Test, not just an Intelligence test.

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An update of an old class from the old forums, by Kwak, who is sadly no longer around these days.

There weren't enough classes with Medicae.

I tried to update it a bit. Since alchemist changed some of the feats from alchemist changed as well. I replaced Double Dose with Pharmacist; this combos well with Break Bad that the class already had, but makes it so you can't get such overpowered drugs (double positives and negatives is crazy).

I also added linking to Homebrew feats that it had but didn't specify about. I did add the homebrew feat of Feel No Pain; presumably you're so busy treating others that you don't have time to worry about getting hurt yourself. It gets it later than Sac Lion though.

I changed Patch Up to specify Half or Full action medicae tests and only during combat, since otherwise it could likely create some odd things. Due to this I also removed the feat which let you use medicae to make social attacks, otherwise someone could be making reaction action social attacks in order to nuke people with 6 or more social attacks a round. Sure they had to have the proper facilities about them to do it but god help you if you ran into a doctor in a hospital with that and air of authority. Specifying half or full action also meant that you couldn't surgically extract someone's organs as a half action in combat, since I'd argue that is more than a half or full action (although there are plenty of ways to extract people's organs the old fashion way).

The class is very hungry for reactions in general. I gave it Channel energy due to it also having divine ministration. I believe part of the original idea Kwak had was for nonmagical healing, hence no healing school, but if it gets divine ministration I figure channel energy is fine too. I suppose Channel energy can hurt while DM can't so that may be why it was left out.

For NEW feats, Ease Pain and Close Wounds. Close wounds is a nerf'd version of First Aid. It can heal, and a lot, but only damage that the target took in the current scene so you can't just heal someone overtime with it, act fast or never.

For nonmagical healing over time, that is what Ease Pain is for. It lets you heal someone 1 HP per scene but the TN quickly grows to an enormous amount and if you flub it then they are hurt instead. It is mostly good for just getting people back on their feat.

Remote Treatment was reworded a bit. I think it was intended to allow people to use the medicae actions and drugs on people at a distance. Hopefully the rephrase allows for that to be understood and since it is willing only it can help cut down on some possible exploits.

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Changed the name of Urgent Care to First Aid, now Novice can keep the reference since it invented it first anyway. Apparently I had also called it "close wounds" at some point as well according to the above post, completely forgot I changed that. Urgent Care was really just another way of saying First Aid anyway and checking I didn't see any classes that had taken it otherwise beyond Novice... I think Patch Up may have been called Urgent Care at one point actually, I'd need to check the old forums. Also added some linking for the Old New Feats section to give classes their proper linkage and credit. Going to be a chore to go back and do that to all of mine, but it sure is nicer.

I'm wondering now if Instant Therapy might be a bit too good. That one wasn't one I had made changes to. By intention since it is a Medicae test you can instead do it as a Reaction during combat via Patch Up meaning you can quickly spend a bunch of reaction actions to try and heal multiple party members that are getting insanity. In narrative time that won't work and you'll only be able to heal 1, but the amount of insanity normally gained at once is pretty small and during narrative time it is normally rare for lots of people to get it so that isn't as much of an issue. I'm not certain, it just seems really strong. In fact I should probably update the wording either way to clarify that the extra removal from raises is still limited to ones gained this round, not dipping into the pre-existing craziness.