Complication: Coward

[uncut pendant]

Complication: Coward
You have a deep seeded fear of the dangers you face as a hero. Still, when people need help, you can’t just let their pleas go ignored. You might be scared, but you’ll face these threats scared

Benefit: the first time each session you damage a creature that is the source of your frightened condition, you earn your party a hero token. While you are winded, you can move towards the source of your fear.

Drawback: When you are effected by a potency ability that inflicts frightened, you are considered to have a -1 in your stats. Additionally, whenever you encounter a new hostile creature of size 2 or larger, or a creature who is a leader or solo, you make the following intuition power roll:

11: you are frightened of that creature until you do battle with them (EoE)
12-16: you are frightened of that creature for 10 minutes (or save ends)
17+: you are frightened of that creature for 1 minute (or EoT)

I really like cowardly heroes, and I wanted to have a way to play the kind of person who is a hero despite, and even because of their fears.

What do you all think of this?

[rigid canopy]

I hate to break it to you, but look at complication number 12

but its a really cool idea!

[uncut pendant]

How did I miss that? Thank you so much XD

[uncut pendant]

How do you think it works as a variant of the coward complication with more benefits and detriments?

[rigid canopy]

I think that could absolutely work, given we have "infernal contract" and "infernal contract, but like... bad" and it could also be possible to come up with another name for it

[uncut pendant]

Mega coward XD

[cloud vine]

Reluctant Hero maybe?

maybe "Anxious Wreck" might be more appropriate.

[rigid canopy]

Just a lil guy?