Ah, but as you pointed out, this is Stake, not Strain! :-) Also, that's why I picked Spirit. Characters need Vigor to have lots of Wind, but most folks write off Spirit. Jeff S >I used Vigor for two reasons: 1) All the other >Strain-based Arcane Backgrounds used Vigor for Strain >and 2) I wanted to give players another stat they >couldn't automatically "short" because "I don't use it >much."