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I have’t tried it out yet, but I’m contemplating using a more BRP style of advancement where characters advance by using skills rather than being awarded Advancement Rolls like experience points. As part of that, I was going to let characters seek out trainers to try and learn heroic abilities after a week of intensive training, and a successful attribute roll (generally whatever attribute is associated with the HA). Robust and Focused would get progressively harder with a bane for every time they’ve already learned that ability.

I suggested something like that during the campaign (enabling stockpiling 5 or 10 advancement rolls to buy HAs) because i wasn’t keen on the ‘every 5 sessions’ originally proposed or the largely GM fiat we got. My players like to choose what things they might like for their characters, and some either save up advances for something cool, while others spend them quickly. I suspect the current HA method is a little too much at the whim of the GM (in saying that, they don’t seem to mind the advancement in Liminal where new quality points get unlocked every three skill advancements, so maybe they’d have been okay with the every 5 sessions…).

Regardless, I think there are multiple ways to do it from the RAW to a more BRP style (which I am leaning towards trying as that’s what I was originally hoping for), to saving up a certain number of advancement rolls (5 or 10 depending on how quick you want them to be gained).