Career: Physician
The art of medicine has been practiced by humans for thousands of years. Since prehistoric times¸ when the healing power of certain plants and other natural materials was first discovered¸ medicine has undertaken a slow but inexorable advance¸ each new discovery building or improving upon those before it. At the forefront of this advance were those who took up the art of healing¸ at first blending primitive lore with religious overtones; but with the coming of such luminaries as Hippocrates¸ Galen¸ Imhotep¸ Avicenna¸ and Sushruta¸ more rational applications of medicine began to take root. These were among the first of those known today as doctors¸ or Physicians. Physicians in Cepheus Engine and the Original Science Fiction Roleplaying Game (OSFRPG) need no longer be consigned to the background¸ called forth only when one of their colleagues gets hurt. Career: Physicians puts them into the thick of the action with three new types: Warriors¸ Researchers¸ and Practitioners¸ making the team's doctor more than just a bandager and pill-pusher. Also offered are a new skill and a mechanic for determining how successful a Physician is likely to be by putting them through med school. Career: Physicians. There is a doctor in the house.