A quick question:
How do I improve my rating in Core Skills? Secondary skills can be improved by Tutoring and by rolling crits, but it seems like neither of these is an option for Core Skills, and given how modest attributes are, it seems like Secondary skills would rapidly surpass Core Skills in modifier? (Though Core skills will have Tricks)
Hi there! Sorry it took me a couple days to get back to you. I see why you were tripped up: if you look at the Tricks for core skills, you will see that each one also grants you +1 in that skill at the end of the Trick's description.
This means, effectively, that your core skills improve whenever you roll a critical success using them, just like secondary skills do. It is not worded this way explicitly in the rules because certain Tricks have requirements for a minimum modifier, and in playtesting there was confusion about whether the +1 to a skill was taken before or after deciding what Tricks you were eligible for.
If your secondary skills surpass a core skill, this will be temporary, because they are capped at +5. You also will start with higher modifiers in your core skills since the starting modifiers are based on your attributes, and secondary skills just start at +1.
Please let me know if you have any other questions! I am happy to help :)
