1. Gaining Power

Your Character gains power by adding new skills and abilities to their repertoire or by upgrading existing skills and abilities. These skills and abilities must be earnt through Roleplay and achieving sufficient passing grades from your Unit Leader or a Game Master, depending on where the Roleplay took place. All these skills, abilities and upgrades together are called "Chits". So, there are Skill Chits, Ability Chits and Upgrade Chits for both Skills and Abilities. Here are two example Skill Chits:

1.1 Character Tier

Your Character can receive promotions up or demotions down their Unit's hierarchy. This is based on the criteria set by their Unit's culture and Leader(s). Some Units promote or demote based on activity, others on Roleplaying excellence. Most Units will sit somewhere in the middle and expect both some activity from you as well as honing your Roleplaying skills.

Your Character's Rank will determine in which Tier they sit. A Tier is a bracket of Ranks which all share the same minimum Power allotted to them as well as the same maximum Power they can attain. Gaining enough promotions is an important and viable way to increase your Character's minimum Power in one go but, perhaps more importantly; remove skill and ability caps.

You will find that you can only acquire so many new skills and abilities and a finite amount of upgrades per Tier. Likewise, some levels of skills and abilities will be barred unless your Character is of a sufficiently high Tier. If a Skill or Ability needs a minimum Tier, you will find it listed with the Requirement. The Tiers are as follows:

2. Grading

• • In their report, players specify for which Chit they seek a grade. Only 1 chit can be graded for each roleplay.
  • Grading is done on a basis from F to A.
  • Grading is done for the roleplay, not the use of the skill or ability by the character. 
  • Unit Leaders should grade justly, not complacently and, provide justification.

The graded roleplays:

• • Can be solo or collaborative ("missions"), or spars.
  • Graded roleplays must be on-topic for the desired Chit.

2.1 Passing

A Passing grade is equal or higher than the grade indicated by the sought after Chit. A number of Roleplays must be met with a Passing grade for that Chit to be earnt. 

2.2 Failing

A Failing grade is lower than the grade indicated by the sought after Chit.

3. Tier Chit Limits & Minimum Chits

• Earnable Chits: the maximum number of additional Chits in total which may be earnt by a Character of that tier through Roleplay.
• Free Chits: the number of Chits a Character possesses based on their Tier alone and can be spent without RP'ing on any Skill, Ability or Innate Power except Reiatsu.

3.1 Earnable Chits

These are Chits you earnt through Roleplay. Instead of accruing points, you Roleplay for the specific Chit you want. A Chit is considered earnt if you accumulate enough passing grades for it. You can then add it to your Character. Each Tier may add a limited number of Chits this way.

Say you have the Requirements listed in Immense Strength and want to add it to your Character (and you have no more Free Chits to spend). To Upgrade the Strength Chit, you need to do 1 Roleplay which received a B grade and in which your Character used the relevant power.

Immense Strength

Requirement: Tier A | Great Strength

Upgrade Chit: Receive a B grade on at least 1 Roleplay where your Character acquires this new power.

Descr.

All Chits will state the Roleplaying requirement to achieve it in terms of number of Roleplays and the minimum Grade to pass. In the Chit System you're not really collecting points, you're collecting grades on Chits you want to add and you can only add so many.

4. Adding & Upgrading Chits

You can add new Chits to a Character in two ways:

1. 1. By adding them from your pool of Free Chit Points. These are given to you without requiring any Passing grades. You can spend them on your Character as you like (bar on Reiatsu) and, you only need to adhere to the Tier limits on the Chit themselves. The cost of Free Chits is given in the Chit Glossary.
   2. By earning them through Roleplay. Each entry-level Chit will have a requirement and a way to accomplish that Chit through Roleplaying. This would cost Earnable Chit points.

1. 1. Upgrading existing Chits or new Chits from your pool of Minimum Chits. These again require no Roleplaying.
   2. Earning the next level Chit through Roleplaying. Each Chit level will say how many passing grades you need to attain that Chit. These will have to be earnt in sequence and one at a time and cost 1 Earnable Chit for each level upgrade.

The cost in Free Chits can be read in the Chit Glossary overview along the top bar:

TYPE | Free Chits ↓     →	1	2	3	4	5	6	0
Speed	Enhanced	Nimble	Great	Immense	Bullet	Lightning	Slow

 

A B Tier Character has 10 Free Chits and can add 6 Earnable Chits. They could add Enhanced Speed for 1 Free Chit and distribute the other 9 Free Chits elsewhere. With Earnable Chits, they could improve their Enhanced Speed to Nimble and then Great, costing 1 Earnable Chit each.

4.1 Earning Event Chits or Free Passes

Participating in Events can earn you Event Chits. These special Chits cannot be otherwise earned and will feature unique rules and stipulations. Some will allow you to grow your Character after you've already earnt all earnable Chits, others may even break the Character Tier allowing them otherwise inaccessible skill levels, and so on.

4.2 Downgrading Chits

You cannot take Chits back once invested freely. You can Roleplay a "retcon" in which your Character loses some or all of their Skills and Abilities. These Chits are then removed from your character and you can re-earn them somewhere else. This is helpful if you ran into a Chit Limit and want to tweak or rebuild a character.

5. Building A Character

You can now build your Character's Powers & Abilities using Chits, or use the CCM (Character Chit Manager) to help you. You should use the Chit Lookup Chart to find the Chits you want for your Character. Remember, you get a number of free Minimum Chits to expend right away to build as a start. However, once approved you cannot take your expended Chits away anymore! So think about which direction you want to take your Character in and plan ahead.

5.1 Layout

The Powers & Abilities should be laid out as follows, along with the header "Powers & Abilities". Everything in [brackets] is there for annotation and isn't taken up in the profile.

Powers & Abilities
[0 FC] [0 EC]

[Innate Power Chits]

Reiatsu

Strength [FC/EC]

Speed [FC/EC]

[Skill Chits]

Hohō [FC/EC]

Skill Specific Ability [FC/EC]

Zanjutsu [FC/EC]

Hakuda [FC/EC]

Kidō [FC/EC]

[Faction Ability Chits]

Reiraku [FC/EC]

Cero [FC/EC]

Blut [FC/EC]

You add the level of each Chit in the appropriate place as well, for instance, "Hohō Expert" or "Enhanced Blut Vene". Optionally, you can link each Chit in your profile to the corresponding Chit in your Faction's Chit Glossary and you are also allowed to put the total Chit number in front of each Chit, for instance: Hohō Expert [5FC]

You may add a bookkeeping score of your Free Chits ([FC]), your Earnable Chits ([EC]) and the Grades you have received for each allocated Earnable Chit as well. This gives you a more organised overview of where you are and what you are pursuing. This isn't mandatory but it does help keep track of when you're ready to 

5.2 Example Character Powers & Abilities

Here is a complete example of a Shinigami Character with 1 additional Chit earnt. They list their total Free Chits and Earnt Chits at the top, followed by a list of their skills. Behind each skill, they list what they put in for Free Chits and Earnt Chits. At the bottom, they list the grades (linked to the grading) for their first (and in this case only) Earnt Chit for Hakuda Average.

Powers & Abilities

• Tier B+ Characters can upgrade 1 Skill to Master Level, costing 2 extra Earnt Chits (e.g. 7 in total) OR 1 Innate Power (Strength or Speed) costing 2 extra Earnt Chits (e.g. 7 in total).

• Tier A Shinigami and Quincy can upgrade 1 Skill to Master Specialist Level, costing 4 extra Chits (e.g. 9 in total).
• Tier A Arrancar can upgrade 1 Innate Power (Strength, Speed), costing extra 4 Chits (e.g. 9 in total) or Hierro for 6 in total.
• Tier A Quincy can alternatively raise their Blut Level similarly, costing 4 extra chits (e.g. 9 in total).

Note: some Event Chits may be used to Tier Break. This significantly lessens the cost of doing so (e.g. just the Event Chit itself + the Chits used to get to the Skill/Power limit). Using Event Chits can't be used to Tier Break more than twice in total. 

7. Releases

Releases work parallel to Powers & Abilities with their own Chits. You receive Free Chits based on your Tier and you can earn additional Chits through Roleplay. You can only dedicate a Roleplay for grading purposes to either a Powers & Abilities Chit OR a Release Chit. Each Faction's Releases are explained in separate threads.

• Shikai & Bankai
  • Hollofication
• Resurrección
• Epithets & Vollständig

8. Chit Glossaries

• Shinigami Chit Glossary
• Arrancar Chit Glossary
• Quincy Chit Glossary