Alternate Assignment of Dots

CHARACTER LEVELS
LEVELATTRIBUTESSKILLSMERITS
56/4/412/9/511 points
45/4/411/8/59 points
35/4/311/7/47 points
24/4/310/6/45 points
14/3/310/5/33 points

The average character recieves 9 levels to distribute between his Attributes, Skills and Merits. The default assumption is 3 each, giving the character the core character creation values. However, he can choose to lower one of his categories somewhat in order to boost another. Alternatively a storyteller might give a character additional levels to spend as he wishes, or only for a given category.