oh thank you, Joram! Now I see the little arrow thingies below the icons to the right of the circle where the current level is given ... *WONDERFUL*!

Perhaps my problem was my eyes - serving me for 60+ years, not to mention playing rpgs for about 20+ of those years [does anyone out there remember Knights of Legend?] - hence not what they used to be.

That said, I could wish that using skill points, like a few other bits and pieces, had been illustrated or clarified in the manual.

But don't get me wrong - I'm LOVING the game: am a long-standing Larian fan from Divine Divinity days (still chuckle when I remember the title of one of the books in that game - Healing Potions: The Case For Addiction), and am thrilled to bits at finally having Divinity II in my hot little hands.