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Old 08-10-2015, 08:41 AM   #9
Varyon
 
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Default Re: Alternate GURPS: Seeking a minimalistic (25-50) skill list . . .

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Originally Posted by Donny Brook View Post
For example the typical maverick litigation lawyer is typically tempermentally unfit for learning a lot of Administration.
Optional Specialization and Quirks should be able to cover cases like this. Your maverick might have IQ 12 and Bureaucracy-16, but has a Quirk that means for Administration tasks he's working off of the normal Bureaucracy default.

Ideally, you'd want all skills to be the same difficulty for simplicity, with Optional Specialization simply giving a bonus to skill. I'd probably allow two levels of Specialization - Specialized and Extremely Specialized. The former is +1 for your task of interest and -2 for everything else; the latter is +2 for your task of interest and you work off defaults for everything else. Hard is probably appropriate, making Defaulting always be -5, [1] is -2, [2] is -1, [4] is +0, and it costs an additional [4] for each +1.
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