The Patchery

Location: Oldtown (7)

Services: Medical services, healing potions

Key NPCs: Daff d’Jorasco (male halfling healer)

Every town needs a doctor, and Quickstone has Daff. While he’s an heir of House Jorasco, trained and licensed by the Healer’s Guild, he’s very interested in unorthodox paths of medicine. One day he’ll be working with new herbal remedies, the next, he’ll be messing around with Znir broodworms that disinfect wounds by eating infected flesh. The day after that he’ll be practicing Sarlonan psychic sympathy (“Don’t you see? Laughter IS the best medicine!”). While he’s colorful, he is still a capable healer. In addition to mundane medical care, he can perform Cure Wounds or Lesser Restoration at the standard rates, and sells Potions of Healing. Depending on how his experiments go, he may occasionally have Greater Potions of Healing or other medical magic for sale, but these are the product of his experiments and may have unexpected side effects...

Possible ties to The Patchery:

• You have a rare cosmetic medical condition that Daff is studying. Work out the details with the DM; it’s not contagious and doesn’t impose any penalties, but it may be visually unsettling.
• As above, but Daff is actually responsible for your condition; it’s the result of an earlier experiment. “Just relax... It’s totally under control.”
• If you’re a rare humanoid (such as a Tiefling, Aasimar, or Drow), or from an very distant culture (Sarlona, Xen’drik), Daff may be eager either to study your physiology or to discuss your culture’s medical traditions.