[CapedCrusader]

Well, there's a resource counter that tracks how many Advances a hero has been given called resAdvance. #resmax[resAdvance] is the current maximum, #resleft[resAdvance] is how many are unspent. Four Advances per Rank.

It depends on how you want it to work. Is it dependent on reaching a specific Advance you want want to leverage? (When they reach 6 Advances, x happens).

To give them a free Attribute Die adjustment without messing up their level progression, you'll want to sidestep Advances completely. Add to the resAttrib resource counter and have them unlock their character and choose which Attribute to increase and add it like when they were building the character. You can't add a free Advance because that will also be counted for their Rank since it's all driven by Advances instead of XP's now.

For that you'd have to bootstrap a power to the Faction. The problem here is that unless the hero has an Arcane Background the Arcane tab won't show up. And when you bootstrap the Power, you need to tell it which Arcane Background it belongs to by adding the proper Arcane tag to the bootstrap. Now, I haven't added a Power via bootstrapping it to something like a Faction/Group since we went to multiple Arcane Backgrounds with this latest update. Adding just a Power like that would be the same if you added it to a Racial template. Adding Powers without Arcane Backgrounds has always been tricky because of the interconnected nature of everything. Spells get attached to Arcane Backgrounds, thus having access to Power Points and such like, and the Arcane Background tag tells the Arcane tab to display.