Garou Merits & Flaws

The system mechanics for Bandaiyan's merit & flaws have been modified for continuity in terms of cost of benefit/deficit.  Any merit or flaw with respectively adds/removes dices costs/provides dice at rate of 1:1- +1 dice/-1 dice for 1 fp, +2 dice/-2 dice for 2 fp.  Any merit or flaw which respectively increases/decreases difficulty does so at rate of 1:2- +1/-1 difficulty for 2 fp, +2/-2 difficulty for 4 fp. 
Sometimes additonal merits can be bought post-character creation or flaws can be bought off.  In both cases, the XP cost is 2x the normal fp cost- a 1 point merit costs 2 xp to buy in the middle of a chronicle.  A 2 point flaw costs 4 xp to buy-off.