First time poster but big fan! Can anyone tell me how to advance a character's common skills or weapon skills from regular to favoured. For the life of me i cant find it. I'm sure it'll cost XPs or APs but not sure how many.

I tried the search function on the forum in case this has been covered but it didnt work.

Thanks in advance...

For some reason there isn't anything telling peopl this, but the search function doesn't work. There's a thread in the TOR reasources section which tells you how to use google to search the forums. To make a skill favoured a character has to take a Mastery, which are listed at the beginning of the Virtues section in the Adventurer's Book

Hello James!

IIRC (don't have my books with me), there's a mastery that allows you to favour a skill (masteries are non-cultural virtues). It is called Expertise or something like that.

Also, here's the search tread in question

Glorfindel

Many thanks Glorfindel and Beleg...you have solved my problem completely.