"Throwback" feat? [Archive] - Wizards Community

"Throwback" feat? [Archive] - Wizards Community

Post/Author/DateTime Post
Razorgrin
03-30-07, 02:46 PM I could swear I'd seen a feat called Throwback (or something to that effect) that essentially rolled your character back one step, speaking evolutionarily. It was something like +2 Str and Con, -4 Int and Cha; selectable only at first level.

The more I look for it, the more I'm convinced I made it up. I've convinced myself that it was, in fact, a Wizards-published feat, but it's possible I'm misremembering that. Anyone have any insight?
Goldenmaxter
03-31-07, 12:31 AM Sounds sketchy to me. Google it.
Razorgrin
03-31-07, 03:51 PM Sounds sketchy to me. Google it.

I did, and I can never find anything. I must have imagined it. At best, it's probably in one of those ridiculous Mongoose 10,001 Feats tomes or the like.
angelus_truelove
03-31-07, 03:55 PM There's a feat like that in the Frostburn book, IIRC. There's also a PrC that makes you de-evolve in the same book.
Razorgrin
03-31-07, 05:53 PM There's a feat like that in the Frostburn book, IIRC. There's also a PrC that makes you de-evolve in the same book.

See, I thought it was in Frostburn, too, but I couldn't find it. Maybe I'm just stupid?

The primeval PrC is actually one of the reasons I was looking for that feat. I wanted to build a character that's the Neanderthal (in the evolutionary sense, not the D&D racial sense) version of a half-orc; brutally strong but brutally stupid.
Krusk
03-31-07, 06:53 PM There is also the neanderthal race in frostburn which is essentially that.
Gagnrath
03-31-07, 09:17 PM Also look similair to the feral trait in savage species . Not identical but same vein of thought and that adds even nice toys for a +1 lvl adjustment.

Had a DM that let me play a one time adventure with a feral barbarian neadnerthral with a couple of levels of beserker (the dieties and demigods beserk not the frenzied type.) was an amazing melee hulk but I dreaded ever seeing a wizard or cleric unless raging..

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
Razorgrin 03-30-07, 02:46 PM	I could swear I'd seen a feat called Throwback (or something to that effect) that essentially rolled your character back one step, speaking evolutionarily. It was something like +2 Str and Con, -4 Int and Cha; selectable only at first level. The more I look for it, the more I'm convinced I made it up. I've convinced myself that it was, in fact, a Wizards-published feat, but it's possible I'm misremembering that. Anyone have any insight?
Goldenmaxter 03-31-07, 12:31 AM	Sounds sketchy to me. Google it.
Razorgrin 03-31-07, 03:51 PM	Sounds sketchy to me. Google it. I did, and I can never find anything. I must have imagined it. At best, it's probably in one of those ridiculous Mongoose 10,001 Feats tomes or the like.
angelus_truelove 03-31-07, 03:55 PM	There's a feat like that in the Frostburn book, IIRC. There's also a PrC that makes you de-evolve in the same book.
Razorgrin 03-31-07, 05:53 PM	There's a feat like that in the Frostburn book, IIRC. There's also a PrC that makes you de-evolve in the same book. See, I thought it was in Frostburn, too, but I couldn't find it. Maybe I'm just stupid? The primeval PrC is actually one of the reasons I was looking for that feat. I wanted to build a character that's the Neanderthal (in the evolutionary sense, not the D&D racial sense) version of a half-orc; brutally strong but brutally stupid.
Krusk 03-31-07, 06:53 PM	There is also the neanderthal race in frostburn which is essentially that.
Gagnrath 03-31-07, 09:17 PM	Also look similair to the feral trait in savage species . Not identical but same vein of thought and that adds even nice toys for a +1 lvl adjustment. Had a DM that let me play a one time adventure with a feral barbarian neadnerthral with a couple of levels of beserker (the dieties and demigods beserk not the frenzied type.) was an amazing melee hulk but I dreaded ever seeing a wizard or cleric unless raging..