You get one advance per experience gained, check. So hows one track advances when the advance cost is greater then one. The easiest exhample being when you want to raise a character trait.

Raising your strength from three to four would cost four advances...

so does this mean that for four experience points, I do nothing? and how would I track that on my character sheet?

Also it states in the rules that if I want to purchase an action card that's higher in rank then me, I have to spend the difference in advances? How can I do that during character creation, and agian how would I show that on my character sheet later on?

hope this makes sense. it's my only problem with the game mechanics, other wise love the game.

Spending advances is done on the back of the character sheet, in the advancement workspace. Raising Strength from 3 to 4, if it's a career characteristic, costs 4 advances, which are counted as career advancements. These would take up 4 of the 6 open career advancement check boxes. Acquiring a higher rank action card would similarly cost more check boxes. In the FAQ they confirm the fact that the check boxes on the back of the character sheet ARE a limitation on how many career advances you can acquire. So if you raised your strength to 4 like the example, you would only have 2 open advancements left to acquire other things like, stance pieces or Fortune Dice.

Also, on the same page, theirs a space to put Total Experience, and Advances Spent. If you don't want to immediately spend your advances when you get them, just increase experience, and leave advances spent alone until you spend them.

Physically, I just draw a line through the middle of the open advance lines and write in what I bought on the last one. So if I raised Int from 3-4 I'd spend 4 advances. So I'd just draw a line through the middle of 3 advances, and write in "Raised Int from 3 to 4" on the last one.

You have 6 open advances, and can thus raise a career skill to 6 maximum in-game.

Where it gets confusing is you have only 2 non-career advance options, and 5 squares next to them (yipee). So you can buy a stat from 3-4 but it would cost you 5. To do that I just cross out all 5 squares and fill in the line with 'Int 3->4' for example.

Hope that's clear enough.

Just remember to keep correct track of the Total Experience earned compared to Advances Used and you should be fine.

Off topic/subject/everything I just wanted to share my funny thought.

I imagined the response of a nerdy girl to this comment:

shinma said:

which would be (in my head, no offense intended) "so what? you think that intelligence is a non career skill for me? you think I'm stupid? huh? huh? huh?"

see? funny......also add a chewing gum, chewing gum always makes stuff funnier

I'm entertained.

Actually I used the example from my character (priest of sigmar) who started with a lower INT. So I suppose I was making fun of my own alter ego ^_~