CrazyCrab
2016-03-10, 09:39 PM
Hi everyone,
tired of playing myself in every game, I decided to go with something a bit odd this time. I like the concept, but I'm unsure into which category it falls into, yet my DMs prefer us to have our alignments out in the open (you cannot attune to magic items that are evil when you are good etc.)
He is, or at least introduces himself as, a 'combat medic'. I was interested in playing a healer, but I'm not really interested in playing another caster so I decided to go with with a Thief (Fast Hands) and the Healer feat, meaning that I can patch people up as a bonus action. Mechanically it should be pretty sound. Anyway, to the point...
His background is 'Street Urchin', as he spent most of his childhood patching up his friends who naturally couldn't go to see a doctor. He usually asked for some payment, scraps of food and the like. He picked up the craft by making one of the clinics his house, sleeping in the attic and looking through a gap in the floor whenever any patients there were visiting.
Sadly for him, the person running the clinic was an evil, evil man. When he discovered that some of the patients were simply turned into organs for the necromancers and the flesh-golem makers, he decided to kill him. Unsurprisingly, he was caught in the act and then abused for many years, as the man run a little 'poison and chemical store' on the side. His healing powers were sufficient to cure his wounds, yet his mind was forever broken. After a couple of years he developed a natural resistance and brutally massacred the man while under the effects of a drug that was supposed to keep him paralyzed.
Strangely enough, he liked it. Dishing it out instead of receiving the 'treatment' was surprisingly satisfying. In addition he picked up many tricks of the trade over the years, knowing where to stab to cause pain and suffering. (Translating into the 'sneak attack feature) His knowledge of medicine, alchemy and poison-making has substantially grown, meaning that in a twisted way he surpassed his master. Afterwards he slaughtered all the inhabitants of the clinic in a particularly brutal fashion, exposing their crimes to the authorities afterwards, claiming that 'he had to fight back' and that everyone in there 'was a part of the gang'.
Nowadays he is still running the clinic, while enjoying the benefits of being a member of the local thieves' guild, selling them poisons and other unsavory substances on the side. He is still theoretically a doctor, and a pretty good one at that, but he may or may not be unnecessarily cruel when it comes to treating his patients. Some would claim that he enjoys their suffering as he works without anesthesia... he claims it's necessary.
He decides to join the party, as he's always on the lookout for new substances and the like to improve his repertoire. Strangely enough he always leaves a little note after healing someone (a measly sum of a couple of silver pieces or so), with a proper receipt and everything, even if that person is an ally.
In combat, he throws particularly nasty concoctions at people - sneak attacking with 'acid' and the like is surprisingly nasty. He not only kills, he massacres his targets, inflicting painful wounds on purpose. He enjoys finishing off the enemies afterwards, should anyone be unlucky enough to stay alive. Naturally he hides these actions from the party, being naturally sneaky.
Having spent his childhood listening to a mad doctor and picking up medicine, crafts and nothing more he is quite uncomfortable in social situations. His manner of speech is unnecessarily formal and like everything else, brutally efficient. He always gets straight to the point, no unnecessary complements and the like. He doesn't enjoy the simple pleasures of life, he would rather read a book on dissection than share a drink with the rest of the party.
I'm hoping that perhaps over time he can evolve back into the little child who still tried to do good, despite being the one in need of help. Will really depend on the party's actions I suppose.
Anyway, what would you define this as? I'm guessing he is currently somewhere around NE? Or can his past be justified to place him in the NN category? Perhaps even LN / LE? I'm really unsure.
Thanks in advance!
(If anyone's wondering, he is loosely based on the medic from 'Team Fortress' (cartoony gore, beware 'Meet the Medic' on Youtube)
tired of playing myself in every game, I decided to go with something a bit odd this time. I like the concept, but I'm unsure into which category it falls into, yet my DMs prefer us to have our alignments out in the open (you cannot attune to magic items that are evil when you are good etc.)
He is, or at least introduces himself as, a 'combat medic'. I was interested in playing a healer, but I'm not really interested in playing another caster so I decided to go with with a Thief (Fast Hands) and the Healer feat, meaning that I can patch people up as a bonus action. Mechanically it should be pretty sound. Anyway, to the point...
His background is 'Street Urchin', as he spent most of his childhood patching up his friends who naturally couldn't go to see a doctor. He usually asked for some payment, scraps of food and the like. He picked up the craft by making one of the clinics his house, sleeping in the attic and looking through a gap in the floor whenever any patients there were visiting.
Sadly for him, the person running the clinic was an evil, evil man. When he discovered that some of the patients were simply turned into organs for the necromancers and the flesh-golem makers, he decided to kill him. Unsurprisingly, he was caught in the act and then abused for many years, as the man run a little 'poison and chemical store' on the side. His healing powers were sufficient to cure his wounds, yet his mind was forever broken. After a couple of years he developed a natural resistance and brutally massacred the man while under the effects of a drug that was supposed to keep him paralyzed.
Strangely enough, he liked it. Dishing it out instead of receiving the 'treatment' was surprisingly satisfying. In addition he picked up many tricks of the trade over the years, knowing where to stab to cause pain and suffering. (Translating into the 'sneak attack feature) His knowledge of medicine, alchemy and poison-making has substantially grown, meaning that in a twisted way he surpassed his master. Afterwards he slaughtered all the inhabitants of the clinic in a particularly brutal fashion, exposing their crimes to the authorities afterwards, claiming that 'he had to fight back' and that everyone in there 'was a part of the gang'.
Nowadays he is still running the clinic, while enjoying the benefits of being a member of the local thieves' guild, selling them poisons and other unsavory substances on the side. He is still theoretically a doctor, and a pretty good one at that, but he may or may not be unnecessarily cruel when it comes to treating his patients. Some would claim that he enjoys their suffering as he works without anesthesia... he claims it's necessary.
He decides to join the party, as he's always on the lookout for new substances and the like to improve his repertoire. Strangely enough he always leaves a little note after healing someone (a measly sum of a couple of silver pieces or so), with a proper receipt and everything, even if that person is an ally.
In combat, he throws particularly nasty concoctions at people - sneak attacking with 'acid' and the like is surprisingly nasty. He not only kills, he massacres his targets, inflicting painful wounds on purpose. He enjoys finishing off the enemies afterwards, should anyone be unlucky enough to stay alive. Naturally he hides these actions from the party, being naturally sneaky.
Having spent his childhood listening to a mad doctor and picking up medicine, crafts and nothing more he is quite uncomfortable in social situations. His manner of speech is unnecessarily formal and like everything else, brutally efficient. He always gets straight to the point, no unnecessary complements and the like. He doesn't enjoy the simple pleasures of life, he would rather read a book on dissection than share a drink with the rest of the party.
I'm hoping that perhaps over time he can evolve back into the little child who still tried to do good, despite being the one in need of help. Will really depend on the party's actions I suppose.
Anyway, what would you define this as? I'm guessing he is currently somewhere around NE? Or can his past be justified to place him in the NN category? Perhaps even LN / LE? I'm really unsure.
Thanks in advance!
(If anyone's wondering, he is loosely based on the medic from 'Team Fortress' (cartoony gore, beware 'Meet the Medic' on Youtube)