Everything! Wild Card Skill

[Vernon King Avaritt III]

For all you munchkins out there I have a new Wildcard Skill for you. It is called Everything!. The skill encompasses all known and unknown skills as well as anything someone makes up. Everything! includes all Wildcard! skills. THis is a joke people

[robkelk]

It costs 40 points per level - the same as +1 DX and +1 IQ.

Yes, there are some things that DX and IQ do that aren't part of skill levels, but there are also skills that aren't covered by DX or IQ. What we gain in the straights we lose in the roundabouts. (And that's another joke.)

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by robkelk

It costs 40 points per level - the same as +1 DX and +1 IQ.

I'd probably go with that too. For the sort of game it would make sense in, you'd usually have decent stats to base skills on to start with, so two or three hundred points to succeed on any ordinary skill roll - not really out of balance with other few hundred point superpowers.

[scc]

Wouldn't insane levels of the Jack of All Trades Talent be cheaper?

[Pseudonym]

If you wanted to go silly from reverse engineering. Wild Talent with Cosmic Modifier "Ignore prerequisites" could be reverse engineered using the +0% modifier of Game Time in powers. Take enough levels to get the equivalent of an advantage with "Once Per Game Day" limitation...
Attribute -3 would cost 44 points, Attribute -2 would cost 88 points (cumulative), Attribute-1 would cost 175 points (cumulative), and attribute would cost 350 points. Each +1 would cost an additional 350 points.

You could also start with the cost of (ST-HP)[8]+(DX-Basic Speed)[15]+(IQ)[20]+(HT-FP-Basic Speed)[2]=45
Apply accessibility: Only when calculating skill level.

The latter looks cheaper, *but* it doesn't account for the value of ignoring prerequisites, which allows this hypothetical character to cast any spell ignoring the pre-req chain, use any martial arts skill without weapon master/trained by a master, and avoid arguments about whether every character should be required to know housekeeping and/or driving.

Edit: It also occurs to me you only need to buy one level of the former, and then it is cheaper to continue buying the latter as a "talent," bundling the cost of the perks that allow you to exceed Racial Maxima for ST,DX,IQ, and HT by 1, bringing the price to 49 points a level beyond the first?

If we round that to 50 points a level, and cap talents at 4 levels, as per custom, we could have every single skill at Attribute+1 for 244 points... if your GM allows it.

[the_matrix_walker]

PK gave us his spin on this a while back...

Originally Posted by PK

Well, just to throw a crazy calculation at you, GURPS Supers added Omnilingual, which gives you Accented fluency in every language possible (even alien ones) for 80 points -- 20x the cost of a single language at Accented. It was priced by similar comparison to Xeno-Adaptability, which gives you every possible Cultural Familiarity for 20x the cost of a single CF.

So that implies that charging 20x what you would for a single Very Hard skill might be in the right ballpark. Of course, the logical move would then be to spend 20 points to know every skill at attribute-3 and then spend 50 points to raise DX, IQ, and HT through the roof . . .

So, Everything! @ attribute -2 would be [40]
or...
So, Everything! @ attribute -1 would be [80]

And Everything! @ attribute would be [160], but it would be more cost effective to have Everything! @ attribute -1 [80] + DX, IQ, and HT +1 [50]

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by scc

Wouldn't insane levels of the Jack of All Trades Talent be cheaper?

Not particularly. Leaving aside that JoAT is limited so that it doesn't allow you to exceed what you would actually get for a point, what it does is allows you a *default*, and defaults are inferior to actual skills, even if the target roll happens to be the "same".

[Pseudonym]

I just came up with an even better idea to clinch the gold metal in mental gymnastics.

Wild Talent 1 (Cosmic: Ignore Prerequisites +50%; Game Time +0%) [30]

This let's you use any skill once a week without regard to prerequisites. Advantage X is the ability to use this wild talent an unlimited times per day, so we plug in 30 as the cost, add in the modifiers, and solve for the cost of advantage X.

Extrapolating backwards from Limited Uses, 1/2 a use a day is -10% bigger than 1 use a day, and 1/4 a use a day is another -10%, assuming the halving pattern handle holds.

A fixed duration when it is technically an inconvenience is a 0% feature, so stretching uses from once every four days to once every seven days is free. We do not get the -70% breakpoint for reaching once every 8 days.

Advantage X (Limited Uses, 1/4 Uses per day -60%; Fixed Duration, Once Every seven days instead of every four days +0%)[30]

40% of Advantage X is 30 points, so Advantage X, "Infinite Wild Talent Ignoring Prerequisites" is 75 points.

Attribute - 3 = 10 Points
Attribute - 2 = 19 Points
Attribute - 1 = 38 Points
Attribute + 0 = 75 Points
+1 = 75 Points

At that price break it is worth investing up until Attribute for 75 points, and then just buying up attributes.
But always ask the GM's permission first.

[ArchonShiva]

Seriously, why would this even be a joke? It's easily imagined as either a godly ability, a robot's vast skill library access or or any number of alternatives. mJust the same, it can then be Limited to cover less skills (but more than any Wildcard should), or any number of other limitations.

It's a perfectly legitimate trait, in the right game.