Alternate GURPS: Seeking a minimalistic (25-50) skill list . . .

[Bruno]

If I am building an Outdoorsman who has most or all of the Talent skills, I don't feel like making him a sooooper genius, and I do want him to be very skilled at those skills (like, I was targeting Stat+3 or +4 kind of area) you darn right I'm going to go straight for 4 levels.

Number of levels of talent bought has a lot more to do with desired final skill levels than "brokenness" - a forest elf Scout in DF is going to go straight for 4 levels of the elf talent because he would have got Bow skill astronomical anyways. A forest elf wizard is not going to bother; he's got no real intentions on being a survivalist or archer (why is he playing a forest elf instead of a high elf? he doesn't like music).