"Surgery is a set of curative techniques which consists of applying a minimal amount of harm to a patient to save its life or treat medical conditions. This skill set is often called for when simple magic is insufficient and more advanced magic is prohibitively expensive or simply unavailable.
There are some surgeons, however, who circumvent ethical dilemmas and hypocratic oaths by attempting questionable experiments, in search of scientific advancement and pursuit of discovery.
You have become a mad scientist: a unethical doctor using surgical grafting and magical lightning to further your hold over life and death, blasphemously meddling with the prerogative of gods. Escorted by a freakish flesh golem of your own creation, you flee ethics committees, saving lives with controversial procedures.
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The Mad Leper Presents ‒ The Surgeon offers an artificer subclass for 5E to personify the role of a mad doctor the likes of Victor Frankenstein. Adept at experimental surgeries, Surgeons create their own monster from the remains of humanoid bodies, which they animate with magical lightning. This booklet also includes 4 new artificer infusions and 2 new spells.
Only the Player's Handbook and either Tasha's Cauldron of Everything or Eberron: Rising from the Last War are truly required to play the Surgeon!"
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