On Discworld, it just means "To get as much as your guild will teach you." If you're, say, a witch, you get up to something like 10 levels of fighting skills, but up to 300 of a variety of magic skills. The ones you can get up to 300 in are your "primary" skills - they sort of define the theme of your guild abilities, although you can be a fighter who casts spells from scrolls, or a witch who jabs people with vicious hairpins, or a priest who tries to hide in the shadows like a thief (feef) or assassin (sasswot).
Once you've mastered a skill, you have to either teach it to yourself (very expensive in experience points) or find someone better than you to teach you (not quite as expensive in experience points). Prior to mastering a skill, your guild will teach it you for money and experience points, which is overall much easier.
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Date: 2008-12-05 09:11 am (UTC)Once you've mastered a skill, you have to either teach it to yourself (very expensive in experience points) or find someone better than you to teach you (not quite as expensive in experience points). Prior to mastering a skill, your guild will teach it you for money and experience points, which is overall much easier.