Medicine (Wis)
Source Player Core pg. 201
You can patch up wounds and help people recover from diseases and poisons. Treat Wounds is especially useful, allowing your adventuring party to heal up between fights. It can be made more efficient with skill feats like Continual Recovery and Ward Medic.
Even if you're untrained in Medicine, you can use it to Recall Knowledge.
Even if you're untrained in Medicine, you can use it to Recall Knowledge.
- Recall Knowledge about diseases, poisons, wounds, and forensics. You can use this to perform forensic examinations if you spend 10 minutes (or more, as determined by the GM) checking for evidence such as wound patterns. This is most useful when determining how a body was injured or killed.
Medicine Untrained Actions
Administer First Aid
Source Player Core pg. 201
Requirements You’re wearing or holding a medkit.
You perform first aid on an adjacent creature that is dying or bleeding. If a creature is both dying and bleeding, choose which ailment you're trying to treat before you roll. You can Administer First Aid again to attempt to remedy the other effect.
- Stabilize Attempt a Medicine check on a creature that has 0 Hit Points and the dying condition. The DC is equal to 5 + that creature's recovery roll DC (typically 15 + its dying value).
- Stop Bleeding Attempt a Medicine check on a creature that is taking persistent bleed damage (page 438). The DC is usually the DC of the effect that caused the bleed.
SuccessIf you're trying to stabilize, the target loses the dying condition (but remains unconscious). If you're trying to stop bleeding, the target benefits from an assisted recovery (in the sidebar) with the lowered DC for particularly appropriate help.
Critical FailureIf you were trying to stabilize, the target's dying value increases by 1. If you were trying to stop bleeding, the target immediately takes an amount of damage equal to its persistent bleed damage.
Medicine Trained Actions
Treat Disease
Source Player Core pg. 201
Requirements You’re wearing or holding a medkit.
You spend at least 8 hours caring for a diseased creature. Attempt a Medicine check against the disease's DC. After you attempt to Treat a Disease for a creature, you can't try again until after that creature's next save against the disease.
Critical SuccessYou grant the creature a +4 circumstance bonus to its next saving throw against the disease.
SuccessYou grant the creature a +2 circumstance bonus to its next saving throw against the disease.
Critical FailureYour efforts cause the creature to take a –2 circumstance penalty to its next save against the disease.
Treat Poison [one-action]
Source Player Core pg. 202
Requirements You’re wearing or holding a medkit.
You treat a patient to prevent the spread of poison. Attempt a Medicine check against the poison's DC. After you attempt to Treat a Poison for a creature, you can't try again until after the next time that creature attempts a save against the poison.
Critical SuccessYou grant the creature a +4 circumstance bonus to its next saving throw against the poison.
SuccessYou grant the creature a +2 circumstance bonus to its next saving throw against the poison.
Critical FailureYour efforts cause the creature to take a –2 circumstance penalty to its next save against the poison.
Treat Wounds
Source Player Core pg. 202
Requirements You’re wearing or holding a medkit.
You spend 10 minutes treating one injured living creature (targeting yourself, if you so choose). The target is then temporarily immune to Treat Wounds actions for 1 hour, but this interval overlaps with the time you spent treating (so a patient can be treated once per hour, not once per 70 minutes).
The Medicine check DC is usually 15, though the GM might adjust it based on the circumstances, such as treating a patient outside in a storm, or treating magically cursed wounds. If you're an expert in Medicine, you can instead attempt a DC 20 check to increase the Hit Points regained by 10; if you're a master of Medicine, you can instead attempt a DC 30 check to increase the Hit Points regained by 30; and if you're legendary, you can instead attempt a DC 40 check to increase the Hit Points regained by 50. The damage dealt on a critical failure remains the same.
If you succeed at your check, you can continue treating the target to grant additional healing. If you treat it for a total of 1 hour, double the Hit Points it regains from Treat Wounds.
The Medicine check DC is usually 15, though the GM might adjust it based on the circumstances, such as treating a patient outside in a storm, or treating magically cursed wounds. If you're an expert in Medicine, you can instead attempt a DC 20 check to increase the Hit Points regained by 10; if you're a master of Medicine, you can instead attempt a DC 30 check to increase the Hit Points regained by 30; and if you're legendary, you can instead attempt a DC 40 check to increase the Hit Points regained by 50. The damage dealt on a critical failure remains the same.
If you succeed at your check, you can continue treating the target to grant additional healing. If you treat it for a total of 1 hour, double the Hit Points it regains from Treat Wounds.
Critical SuccessThe target regains 4d8 Hit Points and loses the wounded condition.
SuccessThe target regains 2d8 Hit Points, and loses the wounded condition.
Critical FailureThe target takes 1d8 damage.