We had our first Fellowship Phase yesterday and it stuck me as strange that at a character creation, weapons skills cost twice as much as basic skills but when spending XP, it's the other way round - weapons skills are cheaper.

I understand this may be to do with the fact that you can earn a lot more advancement points in an adventure than experience points but just thought I'd throw it out there to see what you guys think.

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I immediately made that mistake. Remember that you use experience points to buy weapons skills (which you get 1 or 2 a session) and Advancement points (which you get several a session), to increase your common skills, so weapon skills will always improve at a slower rate

Exactly.

Two different "currencies" at work here.

XP pay for Weapon Skills and Virtues/Rewards (as governed by Valour and Wisdom).

And Advancement points pay for "common skills".

/wolf