Lite Characters

Lite Characters are intended to be used in Lite games, smaller one shot Stories, and games for less experienced players. They can be used for Alternate Characters, but are not as complex as other Character Types, although they can be just as powerful ignoring Doom-Weaving, Yarn-Telling and Tale-Twisting abilities that they should not usually have access to.

Lite Characters have between 1 and 13 Hitches- these work pretty much like normal, but slightly simplified in that all Hitches below 10 are Quirks, Flaws have a Boon of 10-19 and all Hitches with a Boon of 20 or more are Woes.

For each Hitch Bane the Lite Character has, they may select a Proficiency. If you want, you can multiply Proficiencies to make the Lite equivalent of Annexes (see below).

Lite Characters are considered to have Facets of Boon 13 modified for Scale for Umbral and Nimbed Purposes (although Referees are welcome to use a different Boon if they prefer). You can also use the Boon of a Hitch to determine an appropriate Facet Boon to add a little complexity. The equivalent Boon (and Dice) may be altered by the Referee (across all equivalent Lite Characters, so if they make ×4 Boon 30 instead of 29 it will affect all ×4 Proficiencies).

Lite characters may have Geometry (calculated from their name), Personality, and Core (usually selected from one of their Proficiency or Hitch Facets or assigned by card Archetype) and may randomly select I-Ching (if a PC they really should have the set, however I-Ching can wait if they are too complicated initially, although in many ways I-Ching should probably precede Core and Persona in learning the game).

Lite characters store Yin on their Hitches and Yang on their Proficiencies and can store Yin equal to the Value of that Hitch Bane, and Yang equal to the equivalent Proficiency Boon (a x10 Hitch can hold 45 Yin where as Strong x4 could store 29 Yang).

Lite characters store Chi like normal PCs for their type, but the Personality Annex is calculated from the Hitch Values plus the highest Proficiency as a Boon. That is… Personality Annex Boon is equal to Max Yin looked up as Value to a Boon + Highest Proficiency Boon equivalent (e.g. a character with a Super-skill [x8+] would add 32 to their Personality Annex Boon).

Lite Characters can store 1 Wound per Proficiency/Annex and can only stack a Maximum of 3 of the same Wound type before the Wounds increase a Level.

Lite Characters can use “Extras” (usually Cast or Chorus Extras) as their Alternates.