This system uses the six standard D&D-style attributes:

• 💪 Strength (STR) — Physical power and raw muscle
• 🎯 Dexterity (DEX) — Agility, balance, and precision
• 🛡️ Constitution (CON) — Endurance, toughness, and stamina
• 🧠 Intelligence (INT) — Logic, memory, and learning
• 👁️ Wisdom (WIS) — Perception, intuition, and willpower
• 🗣️ Charisma (CHA) — Presence, confidence, and influence

These six attributes define your character’s core physical and mental traits. However, unlike in traditional D&D, this system does not use attribute modifiers directly for most rolls.

Instead, attributes combine to form Aspects — the true backbone of how actions are resolved.

The default method is the Standard Array:

15, 14, 13, 12, 10, 8

Assign these scores to your six attributes however best fits your character concept. This ensures fair starting power with meaningful differences between characters.

Depending on your group’s play style or campaign tone, you can also use:

• Point Buy (5e-style) — Spend 27 points for optimized character builds.
• 4d6, drop the lowest — Classic “heroic” stat rolling. Slightly stronger, with more variance.
• 3d6 in order — True old-school chaos. Encourages creative character concepts over power builds.

As long as all players use the same method, the game will stay balanced.

This system emphasizes combination over isolation.

Your attributes don’t create modifiers like in D&D. Instead, they are paired into Aspects, each representing how two different traits work together to accomplish actions.

For example:

• STR + DEX = Agility (used for jumping, climbing, melee bursts)
• DEX + INT = Finesse (used for picking locks or fine control)
• CON + WIS = Resilience (used for pushing through hardship)

>You’ll use these Aspect values to determine your d4 pool size during gameplay.

See the next section for a full list of Aspects and how to use them.