Characteristics

Body, Mind and Spirit are Primary Characteristics. They are assigned a value from 1-5. These are the number of dice that are rolled along with the skill dice when success is determined as long as the secondary (or derived) characteristic inside the cascade is associated with the skill. A player may also expend a characteristic point (token) to add the number of dice equal to the secondary (or derived) characteristic value in dice to the pool for this action. When a token is used, place a check mark in the token box for that characteristic.

Once a character has expended all of the boxes in any characteristic pool they gain one level of fatigue. This reduces the active level of each primary characteristic by the number of fatigue levels. Any primary characteristic which is reduced to zero active level cannot expend tokens to add to any secondary or derived characteristic. Bead costs to increase characteristics within the cascade are also doubled.

• Body: Used when anything physical is attempted.
  • Strength (S): Lifting, pushing or otherwise mauling.
  • Toughness (T): Resisting damage or otherwise exerting physical will.
  • Speed (Sp): Used anytime quick movement is needed, including splitting dice pools.
• Mind: used when mental acuity is necessary.
  • Reasoning (R): Solving puzzles or otherwise thinking through problems.
  • Knowledge (K): Knowing and remembering facts and information.
  • Perception (P): Noticing that which is not obvious.
• Spirit: used when something intangible inside oneself is utilized.
  • Will (W): Resisting pain or otherwise persevering.
  • Essence (E): Magic, sanity and other things that resist quantification.
  • Luck (L): Some of us have it, some don’t.
• Mind-Body: use either Mind or Body tokens.
  • Coordination (C): The body and mind work to develop precision.
  • Attractiveness (At): Beauty is more than skin deep.
• Mind-Spirit: use Mind or Spirit tokens.
  • Wisdom (W): The ability to use experience to understand the world around you.
  • Conviction (Co): Strength of personality and character.
• Body-Spirit: use Body or Spirit tokens.
  • Endurance (En): Physical ability to emulate the energizer bunny.
  • Resistance (Re): The ability to not succumb to the pressures of pain and torture.
• Mind-Body-Spirit: use any token.
  • Presence (Pr): Confidence and ability to assert your personality.
  • Life (Li): A measure of how strongly your character clings to life.