A Potential Solution for Throwbacks

[eighteenwindows]

Every Seed has Throwbacks--negative and/or strange aspects of the Seeding that become more and more pronounced as the Seed in question grows in power. Each Seed /must/ take one dot of Throwbacks upon character creation. A seed may suffer more dots of Throwback than mandated, but the player should generally only do this if they wish to burden their

Comments

[purophet]

A minimum number of Throwback dots equal to Mythos? Does this continue to be incurred as you raise Mythos post-chargen? This seems awfully harsh to me. I thought we were leaning towards one or two starter Throwbacks regardless of Mythos, and then from Mythos 4 onward taking an additional dot of Throwback every time Mythos is raised.

[eighteenwindows]

Yeah, you're right, I forgot what we'd worked out earlier and substituted something of my own design for it. I've edited the post to reflect this.

[makoknight]

Something I might suggest:

Some kind of dependency throwbacks, for those Seeds who, in mythology, require something specific to survive, be it environmental, or a type of food, or something else.

[makoknight]

Another one, though more for NPCs rather than PCs, really, but the possibility:

Bound - +1 for Mild, +2 for Moderate, +3 for Extreme
You can't go beyond a range from a Genius Loci, or need to return on a frequent basis. A mild binding means you have a fairly wide range, or you only need to return once every six weeks. Moderate means you are limited to within a moderate radius (think a tri-state area or some such), or need to return every three weeks. Extreme means you are bound to a tight radius, or need to return once every few days.

Opinions?

[eighteenwindows]

I like! It's been added, though tweaked slightly to accomodate characters who might be Bound to an object instead of a location.

[makoknight]

Another question regarding throwbacks: Are you forced to have a minimum number of throwbacks, OR is it you have two DOTS of throwbacks?

Do we get anything for taking higher dots of throwbacks off the bat?

I'm curious.

[eighteenwindows]

Edited text to clarify.

You get two Throwbacks. They can be of any dot level. There is no incentive for taking high-level Throwbacks, beyond 'it makes IC sense for my Seed'. Do you think we should have one?