02-16-2020, 11:23 PM
IMO, I think that healing abilities should not be given free to any faction, and anyone should be able to take healing-type skills. However, I expect some religion(s) to typically ask their members (including those from the general population) to take these and help provide personnel and (civic?) buildings that can offer services to the general public and clans.
I would further recommend that the different skills we've discussed be kept separate so that any person can specialize in just one of them at a time. For instance, a clan may include a Surgeon whose job is to know everything they can learn about surgery, without having to learn how to run an apothecary, for instance. If he's spending the time to get the most training he can, it should be in his specialty so he's the best he can be.
In a city there may be a building (or temple?) where people help with healing services, in which one or more specialize in surgery to help with physical emergencies and others who are specialist herbalists to help with ongoing care and recovery, in a building that provides good places for these activities to take place. Other buildings may be apothecaries (run by those that know nothing about surgery), to help keep the city population healthy.
But all this doesn't keep just anyone from learning to be a healer (from novice to expert).
Doesn't that sound reasonable?
I would further recommend that the different skills we've discussed be kept separate so that any person can specialize in just one of them at a time. For instance, a clan may include a Surgeon whose job is to know everything they can learn about surgery, without having to learn how to run an apothecary, for instance. If he's spending the time to get the most training he can, it should be in his specialty so he's the best he can be.
In a city there may be a building (or temple?) where people help with healing services, in which one or more specialize in surgery to help with physical emergencies and others who are specialist herbalists to help with ongoing care and recovery, in a building that provides good places for these activities to take place. Other buildings may be apothecaries (run by those that know nothing about surgery), to help keep the city population healthy.
But all this doesn't keep just anyone from learning to be a healer (from novice to expert).
Doesn't that sound reasonable?