Modern Command Merits

Merits are special traits, advantages, or backgrounds that enhance a character beyond their core attributes and skills. They offer unique benefits, often shaping a character's abilities, resources, or social standing within the game world.

How Merits Differ from Attributes and Skills

Scope: Attributes define broad, fundamental capabilities. Skills represent trained proficiencies. Merits are usually narrower and bestow more niche, specialized, or background-related advantages.
Acquisition: Attributes are typically determined at character creation. Skills are improved through practice or spending experience points. Merits are often chosen during character creation.

Players can buy merits with character points (CP) during character generation. The cost of each merit is listed below.

Merit	Cost	Description
Contacts	5	Having connections and relationships with people of power and influence.
Dumb Luck	5	Pure sheer, and complete dumb luck.
Eidetic Memory	5	Of, relating to, or marked by extraordinarily detailed andvivid recall of visual images.
Empathic	5	Ability to accurately measure anothers emotional state
Famous Celebrity	5	You are a famous celebrity
MBA	5	Masters in Business Administration
Media Favor	5	Someone in mass media owes you a favor. The higher this score, the more favors.
Powerful family	5	Old money, strong business connections, and influencial in power circles.
War hero	5	Respected and admired for heroism in a recent armed conflict