The Healer

The healer can be of any background, social position, religion, and faith. The ability to heal comes from a strong empathy with others and psionic powers.
Healers frequently wander from town to village, sellingtheir services. Some eventually settle down and establish amedical practice, while others join groups of adventurers, warriors, orothers and continue to wander and explore the world; helping people along the way.

Some healers live as hermits or druids, dressing poorly and healingthe needy for a morsel of food, shelter, a night's lodgings, a few goldpieces, a favor, or for a smile (free). Others wear fine silks and smack ofwealth. These are often anarchist and evil characters who rarely performany healing service unless there is profit in it. These people tend to caterto the rich and even become members of the King's royal court or operatetheir own clinic or hospital. Typical fees per each healing touch is50 to 100, psychic diagnosis the same, psychic surgery 1000 gold ormore. Special privileges, promises, information, or an exchange of services,equipment, magic, and so on, may also be accepted in lieu of acash payment. Ultimately, it is the Healer who determines what afee will be (if any). The most self-serving will charge according to theapparent wealth and desperateness of the person seeking help.The Healer is respected and honored by most, even those who charge outrageous sums for their services.

Many people believe them to be holy men, endowed with the healingpowers from the gods; this is especially true of the canine races where aHealer can become a tribal shaman, leader or advisor. Even hostileforces of nonhumans have been known to enlist a Healer's aid, regardlessof race, or allow him to pass through their territory without anyacts of aggression directed toward him (and frequently, his companions)— they realize they may need the Healer's powers at some point,and if the person is holy, they don't want to evoke the wrath of his god.Of course, some brigands don't care who the character is and will attackand torture and kill a healer along with everybody else. Some tribes,clans and bands composed of the monster races will capture and enslavea Healer and force him into their service.

The Powers of a Healer

1. Psionic Powers: At level one the psychic automatically has thefollowing abilities: deaden pain, exorcism, healing touch, increasedhealing, psychic diagnosis, psychic purification, psychic surgery, see aura and empathy.Additional psionic abilities: The character gets to select one additional power from either the healing or physical psionic categories foreach additional level of experience, starting at level two.
2. I.S.P.: To determine the character's amount of Inner Strength Points, take the number of M.E.+20 as the base, roll 3D6x10, and add it to the base number. The character gets another 12 I.S.P. for each additional level of experience, starting at level one. Considered to be a master psionic.
3. Bonuses: As a master psionic, the Psi-Healer needs to roll a 10 or higher to save versus psionic attack (plus any M.E. attribute bonuses).+4 to save vs mind controlling drugs, potions, and magic charms, +4 tosave vs poisons and disease, +7 to save vs possession, +12% to save vscoma, and +2 to save vs horror factor.