So when you are ready to roll for advancement, you will first want to check out your character sheet. I will keep the CS info up to date as much as I can. But I'll leave your inventory up to you to look after.
So let's say I am the PC: Barbarian Barb and I have the following cliches
Barbarian Berserker [5/5]
Willful Woman [3/3]
Gambler (2/2)
I check my CS and I have
******Barbarian Berserker [5/5]
*Willful Woman [5/3]
***Gambler (1/2)
And I want to roll for advancement. I need to have all evens to advance.
I will spend one * in the cliche I want to attempt to advance first.
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18:10, Today: Narrator, for the NPC Barbarian Barb, rolled 24 using 5d6 with rolls of 5,6,3,4,6. Barbarian Berserker [5/5].
This is pretty good for an advancement roll start, as long as I have at least 3 more *.
I still have 5 *s so I'll spend one to try to make an odd number even.
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18:14, Today: Narrator, for the NPC Barbarian Barb, rolled 1 using 1d6 with rolls of 1. Advancement.
That didn't work. I'll try again since I still have 4 *s. This time, since I need to roll at least 2 evens, I'll spend 2 *s at once.
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18:16, Today: Narrator, for the NPC Barbarian Barb, rolled 4 using 2d6 with rolls of 2,2.
That worked! Now my advancement roll has 5 even numbers 2,6,2,4,6 and I advance to Barbarian Berserker [6/6]
I didn't even spend all the *s so I have
**Barbarian Berserker [6/6]
I'm probably not going to succeed another advancement roll now, so I won't try yet. I'll save up my *s in BB for now.
Should I try for an advancement with Willful Woman? I could and it might work (12.5% probability of success), but I'd rather save up *s in WW for now. Even though the first number is 5, I can't use it for an advancement roll. I have to go with the number on the right.
Now that works in my favor for ***Gambler (1/2). I still get to roll 2d6. There is a 25% probability of success on the first try, and I have 3 *s. I could save up, but I want to try anyway. I'll spend 1 * for an advancement roll.
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18:25, Today: Narrator, for the NPC BB, rolled 5 using 2d6 with rolls of 1,4. ***Gambler (1/2).
Not bad. I'll spend another * to change the "1" I rolled.
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18:27, Today: Narrator, for the NPC BB, rolled 6 using 1d6 with rolls of 6.
And it worked! I end up with
**Barbarian Berserker [6/6]
*Willful Woman [5/3]
*Gambler (2/3)