Okay!  Hopefully this will help.<br/><br/>"Chi" does two things for you, as a player.  First, you can sometimes spend a point of Chi to move the results of a roll 'up' one level...failure to weak success or weak success to full success.  Second, you can exchange five points of Chi for an advance.  So it's a pretty useful thing to earn.<br/><br/>You get chi in a couple of different ways.<br/>If you miss on a roll (that is, you get a 6 or less), you earn a point of Chi.<br/>If you fulfill an Oath, you get both a point of Chi and the Respect of the person to whom the Oath was made.<br/>If playing to one of your chakras makes life troublesome for you, you earn a point of Chi.<br/>(There are other ways as well, but these are the biggies.)<br/><br/>Clear so far?