That ' s great advice , thanks ! Right now I am grinding Akizuki , I want her to at least be lv 40 she is 20 right now I do have NB gear so I will be sure to use it and follow your guidelines to see how it goes , will report back afterwards , thanks once again <| sep |> Is SoundCloud banned in your country ? <| sep |> Sometimes it pays to have a vet on the team . Not always , but sometimes . I find items can be an equalizer if you are trying to level everyone out . Owning a car , for example , maybe something of greater value than a few skill points here or there . Always up to the keepers discretion . I tend to allow it if it justified to me in what I ' d consider believable . If someone rolls a critical success on a skill , they get to tick a box beside that skill . At the end of the sessionor wherever the keeper pleases the investigator tries to roll over their skill percentage . If they succeed , then they get to add 1 dwhatever to that specific skill . My personal alteration is if they critical , they make that skill roll right away , and forgo the box checking . But I only award 1 d 4 . Because there is no hope .