Player's Handbook · Chapter 1

Welcome to Craft Lite

Craft Lite is a fast, genre-neutral tabletop RPG. One roll drives everything: 2d6 + a stat, meet or beat a target. If you can add two dice to a number, you can play.

Your character is built on three stats and three resource pools:

	Governs
Might	Strength, toughness, heavy weapons
Wit	Intellect, perception, magic and tech attacks
Finesse	Agility, stealth, ranged and light weapons

Pool	Powers
Mana	Magic abilities
Energy	Tech and device abilities
Stamina	Physical abilities

Any character can use all three pools — a spell-slinging brawler with a plasma pistol is a legal build. Everything your character learns is a Feat, bought with XP. There are no classes and no levels; characters grow along a rank ladder from F to S+ defined by what they've bought.

This book teaches you to play. Chapter 2 builds your first character; chapters 3 and 4 cover rolling and fighting; chapters 5 and 6 cover growth and gear. For the full letter of the rules, the compendium files are the authority — start with @Missing file and the complete walkthrough in @Missing file.

Manual updated Aug 6, 2026.

CRAFT LITE

Hero's Bastion

One City. Two Ledgers. Sixteen Targets Each. There are no Heroes here.

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Meridian — A Cyberpunk Setting

One City. Two Ledgers. Sixteen Targets. (Work In Progress)

Hero's Bastion is a small peninsula nation of neon and smog. Metahumans are 5% of the population; 80% went bad. Seekers can feel every use of metahuman power, which means the good metas are hunted — so nobody wears a cape. Runners work the shadows: the Core's neon towers, the Verge's toll gates, the Foundry's smog, the Tracts' glass domes, Port Meridian's container mazes, the Warrens' tenement canyons, the Brightwoods' tidy cul-de-sacs, the Old Docks' fog, and the gated lanes of River Forest Estates.

The Underline has sixteen on The Ledger.

The Pale Hand has sixteen on the Authorized Target List.

Author's note

I started building this for myself along with another project: Marenth: Bronze & Steam. I took advantage of the free Deepseek period and put a lot of time into the two worlds over the free couple weeks. At this point I feel obligated to share because this wouldn't have happened with the free couple weeks. This is still a work in progress (especially the Cyberpunk aspect, and I want to add more custom spells). This is a much simpler world in terms of mechanics than some of the deeper CRAFT projects, but I hope you enjoy. Powered by the fast 2d6 Craft Lite system.

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