NPC Characteristics - Tiers and Levels: set base Threat rating and Hit Points - Hit Points: One total pool, not separate Health and stress - Attributes and Skills: Replaced by strengths and weaknesses. Add or subtract from Threat. - Talents: Can have Talents and use them for their or to support their actions as usual. - Equipment: used as normal for characters. Useful equipment adds to Threat. ---- Don’t track equipment amount carried ---- Don’t track equipment ware ---- Some equipment is purely narrative and descriptive.