Exalts with dependents?

[Accelerator]

I'm not sure if I've posted this here before, but I"m going to post it.

Marriage. With children. At the age of 20-21.

And then, Dragonblooded Exaltation.

[JohnDoe244]

I'm not sure if I've posted this here before, but I"m going to post it.

Marriage. With children. At the age of 20-21.

And then, Dragonblooded Exaltation.

I mean... It's unlikely.

Marriage, with children, at age 19, and then, Dragon-Blooded Exaltation seems more likely.

In the Realm that's a recipe for heartbreak. Join the Legions and never see your family grow up? Become Immaculate? You're too old for adoption.

On the Threshold... VtM had a section about Cleavers in the Time of Thin Blood supplement. I kinda feel it probably goes like that.

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Whilst I'm here...

One of my PCs has a Defining Intimacy to their (adult) kids (who are Retainers), who they basically sent off to kill a Deathknight. I don't think it's apropos to just kill the kids off, out-of-hand (that definitely seems like a OOC conversation). But I also don't think they should waltz out of this concequence free. AITA if they come home missing an arm, or get taken prisoner or something?

Session 0, we had a conversation about the level of plot armor Merit dots will get so it seems cut-and-dry to me. But then... this is a six page thread.

[Sorcerous Overlord]

My Twilight Crafter has a dad and 5 siblings, who are doing allright by farmer standards. His sisters are married off, his brother works the farm and has kids of his own. Young Salazan was discover to be a natural at smithing and so his dad apprenticed him out during a famine.

Salazan hasn't seen any of them in 20 years, but now that he's filthy rich and technically the Duke/Jarl/Daimyo/whatever of their home province he's planning on seeing them soon. He's been sending them money for years to help out.

[Synapse]

Leto and the Monsoon Dancer had dependents. Their solution was quite patrician: hire help. in their case people they trusted implicitly.
The silver witch had kids basically every other year. That game was mostly centered on the colony our characters founded, so they quite literally just grew at home and had a weird mom that disappeared for a few months at a time.

[JohnDoe244]

Someone recently "liked" my post here, which makes me want to update how my game with dependents is going.

The dependents in my game didn't really work out. We baby-yoda'd Reya's kid around in a custom-built baby carriage for a few sessions, which was fun. Hired an NPC baby sitter. Let the baby's mother play one of the major NPCs for some of the high danger scenes (I don't actually put my PCs in danger, but in-character it often feels like they're in danger). It was fun.

A real kid, you don't get to give back when you're done with them. It's not a plot element that you can sideline. But in an RPG?

We swapped STs, retired the mother to raise the kid off-screen for a bit and I'm playing the absentee father. The kids are very much off-screen and my character hasn't seen his youngest in over a year.