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Archin: /* Roleplay Considerations */

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Roleplay Considerations

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	<font color="#DAA520">Keep in mind that in Icebound's alternate history setting, the year is 1896, and medical knowledge is locked to what was published before 1890.</font> If an idea, treatment, or term wasn't published before then, your character shouldn't know be using it in their roleplay.		<font color="#DAA520">Keep in mind that in Icebound's alternate history setting, the year is 1896, and medical knowledge is locked to what was published before 1890.</font> If an idea, treatment, or term wasn't published before then, your character shouldn't know to be using it in their roleplay.

	That leaves room for both progressive and regressive doctors. Germ theory is promising, not settled fact. Antiseptic practice caught on in some surgeries and got ignored in others. Mental illness is broadly sorted into antiquated terms like neurasthenia, hysteria, melancholia, or plain moral weakness. Addiction is largely classified as a failure of willpower, not a disease.		That leaves room for both progressive and regressive doctors. Germ theory is promising, not settled fact. Antiseptic practice caught on in some surgeries and got ignored in others. Mental illness is broadly sorted into antiquated terms like neurasthenia, hysteria, melancholia, or plain moral weakness. Addiction is largely classified as a failure of willpower, not a disease.

Archin: /* Sanity & Psychological Traits */

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Sanity & Psychological Traits

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	At 100% skill, a doctor can deduce a patient's [[Sanity]], and also determine a character's psychological nature, which are useful for building patient profiles or proving and disproving situations in game. Traits subject to this are noted in [[Adaptation Traits]].		At 100% skill, a doctor can deduce a patient's [[Sanity]], and also determine a character's psychological nature, which are useful for building patient profiles or proving and disproving situations in game. Traits subject to this are noted in [[Adaptation Traits]].

	<font color="#DAA520">Given the limits of period understanding, there is no medical treatments involved in this ability.</font> Instead, a doctor can use it to contextualize what the patient may be going through, for better or worse, and can choose to ~~even~~ lie about what they find. This is exactly why sharing screenshots or discussing the diagnostics menu out of character counts as metagaming, it robs the doctor of that choice and the patient of the uncertainty.		<font color="#DAA520">Given the limits of period understanding, there is no medical treatments involved in this ability.</font> Instead, a doctor can use it to contextualize what the patient may be going through, for better or worse, and can even choose to lie about what they find. This is exactly why sharing screenshots or discussing the diagnostics menu out of character counts as metagaming, it robs the doctor of that choice and the patient of the uncertainty.

	=Roleplay Considerations=		=Roleplay Considerations=

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Roleplay Considerations

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	<font color="#DAA520">~~The~~ year is 1896, ~~but~~ medical knowledge is locked to what was published before 1890.</font> If an idea, treatment, or term wasn't published before then, your character shouldn't know be using it in their roleplay.		<font color="#DAA520">Keep in mind that in Icebound's alternate history setting, the year is 1896, and medical knowledge is locked to what was published before 1890.</font> If an idea, treatment, or term wasn't published before then, your character shouldn't know be using it in their roleplay.

	That leaves room for both progressive and regressive doctors. Germ theory is promising, not settled fact. Antiseptic practice caught on in some surgeries and got ignored in others. Mental illness is broadly sorted into antiquated terms like neurasthenia, hysteria, melancholia, or plain moral weakness. Addiction is largely classified as a failure of willpower, not a disease.		That leaves room for both progressive and regressive doctors. Germ theory is promising, not settled fact. Antiseptic practice caught on in some surgeries and got ignored in others. Mental illness is broadly sorted into antiquated terms like neurasthenia, hysteria, melancholia, or plain moral weakness. Addiction is largely classified as a failure of willpower, not a disease.

Archin: /* Medicine in Roleplay */

2026-08-21T16:52:50Z

Medicine in Roleplay

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	<font color="#DAA520">Given the limits of period understanding, there is no medical treatments involved in this ability.</font> Instead, a doctor can use it to contextualize what the patient may be going through, for better or worse, and can choose to even lie about what they find. This is exactly why sharing screenshots or discussing the diagnostics menu out of character counts as metagaming, it robs the doctor of that choice and the patient of the uncertainty.		<font color="#DAA520">Given the limits of period understanding, there is no medical treatments involved in this ability.</font> Instead, a doctor can use it to contextualize what the patient may be going through, for better or worse, and can choose to even lie about what they find. This is exactly why sharing screenshots or discussing the diagnostics menu out of character counts as metagaming, it robs the doctor of that choice and the patient of the uncertainty.

	=~~Medicine in~~ Roleplay=		=Roleplay Considerations=

	<font color="#DAA520">The year is 1896, but medical knowledge is locked to what was published before 1890.</font> If an idea, treatment, or term wasn't published before then, your character shouldn't know be using it in their roleplay.		<font color="#DAA520">The year is 1896, but medical knowledge is locked to what was published before 1890.</font> If an idea, treatment, or term wasn't published before then, your character shouldn't know be using it in their roleplay.

Archin: /* Diagnosing & Treatment */

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Diagnosing & Treatment

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	Begin by acquiring a stethoscope, which is craftable via [[Engineering]].		Begin by acquiring a stethoscope, which is craftable via [[Engineering Tools]].

	A doctor's read on a patient depends on that doctor's own skill, traits, and current mental state.		A doctor's read on a patient depends on that doctor's own skill, traits, and current mental state.

Archin: /* Sanity & Psychological Traits */

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Sanity & Psychological Traits

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	At 100% skill, a doctor can deduce a patient's [[Sanity]], and also determine a character's psychological nature, which are useful for building patient profiles or proving and disproving situations in game. Traits subject to this are noted in [[Adaptation Traits]].		At 100% skill, a doctor can deduce a patient's [[Sanity]], and also determine a character's psychological nature, which are useful for building patient profiles or proving and disproving situations in game. Traits subject to this are noted in [[Adaptation Traits]].

	Given the limits of period understanding, there is no medical treatments involved in this ability. Instead, a doctor can use it to contextualize what the patient may be going through, for better or worse, and can choose to even lie about what they find. This is exactly why sharing screenshots or discussing the diagnostics menu out of character counts as metagaming, it robs the doctor of that choice and the patient of the uncertainty.		<font color="#DAA520">Given the limits of period understanding, there is no medical treatments involved in this ability.</font> Instead, a doctor can use it to contextualize what the patient may be going through, for better or worse, and can choose to even lie about what they find. This is exactly why sharing screenshots or discussing the diagnostics menu out of character counts as metagaming, it robs the doctor of that choice and the patient of the uncertainty.

	=Medicine in Roleplay=		=Medicine in Roleplay=

Archin: /* Sanity & Psychological Traits */

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Sanity & Psychological Traits

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	At 100% skill, a doctor can deduce a ~~patients mental state. Due to the limitations of the period,~~		At 100% skill, a doctor can deduce a patient's [[Sanity]], and also determine a character's psychological nature, which are useful for building patient profiles or proving and disproving situations in game. Traits subject to this are noted in [[Adaptation Traits]].
	~~There is no medical treatment for~~ [[Sanity]]


	[[Adaptation Traits]]


			Given the limits of period understanding, there is no medical treatments involved in this ability. Instead, a doctor can use it to contextualize what the patient may be going through, for better or worse, and can choose to even lie about what they find. This is exactly why sharing screenshots or discussing the diagnostics menu out of character counts as metagaming, it robs the doctor of that choice and the patient of the uncertainty.

	=Medicine in Roleplay=		=Medicine in Roleplay=

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	Think about how your character learned medicine. Formally trained enough to know germ theory? Or just picked it up in the trenches, knowing a clean wound healed better? A plain search like "1880s terms for PTSD" or "Victorian opium habits" will turn up the real language doctors and patients used at the time to further enhance your roleplay.		Think about how your character learned medicine. Formally trained enough to know germ theory? Or just picked it up in the trenches, knowing a clean wound healed better? A plain search like "1880s terms for PTSD" or "Victorian opium habits" will turn up the real language doctors and patients used at the time to further enhance your roleplay.


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			=Medicine in Roleplay=

			<font color="#DAA520">The year is 1896, but medical knowledge is locked to what was published before 1890.</font> If an idea, treatment, or term wasn't published before then, your character shouldn't know be using it in their roleplay.

			That leaves room for both progressive and regressive doctors. Germ theory is promising, not settled fact. Antiseptic practice caught on in some surgeries and got ignored in others. Mental illness is broadly sorted into antiquated terms like neurasthenia, hysteria, melancholia, or plain moral weakness. Addiction is largely classified as a failure of willpower, not a disease.

			Think about how your character learned medicine. Formally trained enough to know germ theory? Or just picked it up in the trenches, knowing a clean wound healed better? A plain search like "1880s terms for PTSD" or "Victorian opium habits" will turn up the real language doctors and patients used at the time to further enhance your roleplay.

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	Back to [[Skills]]		Back to [[Skills]]

Archin: /* Diagnosing & Treatment */

2026-08-21T15:48:30Z

Diagnosing & Treatment

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	Begin by acquiring a stethoscope, which is craftable via [[Engineering]].		Begin by acquiring a stethoscope, which is craftable via [[Engineering]].

			A doctor's read on a patient depends on that doctor's own skill, traits, and current mental state.

	<div style="background-color: #272727; padding: 20px; margin: 20px 0; border-radius: 8px;"> <p style="color: #FF0000;">WARNING: Sharing screenshots of health or skill readouts with other players, in Discord, voice, or in party chat, is considered metagaming and against [[Server Rules]]. Doing so will zero the offending character's medical skill. Unreliable narration is a part of compelling roleplay, and you will need to prove or disprove a doctor's assessment in game, not by sharing screenshots to circumvent roleplaying trust.</p></div>		<div style="background-color: #272727; padding: 20px; margin: 20px 0; border-radius: 8px;"> <p style="color: #FF0000;">WARNING: Sharing screenshots of health or skill readouts with other players, in Discord, voice, or in party chat, is considered metagaming and against [[Server Rules]]. Doing so will zero the offending character's medical skill. Unreliable narration is a part of compelling roleplay, and you will need to prove or disprove a doctor's assessment in game, not by sharing screenshots to circumvent roleplaying trust.</p></div>