New Talents?

[DryaUnda]

Originally Posted by warmachine

Data Processor: In an age of information overload, you can sift and locate the gems at breathtaking speed.

This Talent is your best one yet.

Why isn't Current Affairs one of the listed skills, though?

[warmachine]

Data Processor is not the Talent of knowing lots of data. Rather, it is the Talent of skimming vast amounts of low grade information, spotting likely leads, analysing reliability and accuracy and constructing new information from the relationships. This requires understanding the meaning, source and purpose of just-discovered data, not number crunching for a pre-determined task.

It is actually information, not data, processing but Data Processor has entered the English language.

Current Affairs is just a mass of unrelated trivia and analysis would provide no new insight. Whereas the others can provide insight into strangely missing cash flow, procedural bottlenecks, case law that can be usefully adapted, criminal meeting places, personal history buried somewhere in the newspaper archives or popular reaction to news.

[Allen]

Knightly Weapons We used an example of a small class of weapons under the Weapon Master advantage for a talent that includes broadsword, mace, shield, lance and we added in fastdraw broadsword.

[warmachine]

Originally Posted by Allen

Knightly Weapons We used an example of a small class of weapons under the Weapon Master advantage for a talent that includes broadsword, mace, shield, lance and we added in fastdraw broadsword.

But what is the innate ability or insight, rather than just being the set of skills used by a profession?

[Fabricati]

Drifter: You seem well-adapted to wandering all on your lonesome. Skills: Hiking, Survival, Urban Survival, Traps, Navigation, Running, Naturalist. Reaction Bonus: Those who travel with you. 10/lvl

Trappings of Power: The theory of magic- though not the practice- comes to you readily. Skills: Thaumatology, Ritual Magic, Alchemy, Herb Lore, Esoteric Medicine, Hidden Lore, Occultism, Symbol Drawing. Reaction Bonus: Those who discuss magic theory with you. 10/lvl

[Amy]

Originally Posted by warmachine

But what is the innate ability or insight, rather than just being the set of skills used by a profession?

It's on par with a baseball pitcher haveing a talent for the game. Fastball, curveball, slider, batting, running.

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by Amy

It's on par with a baseball pitcher haveing a talent for the game. Fastball, curveball, slider, batting, running.

No, those don't go together.
Throwing, Fastball, curveball, slider are one talent.
Batting is a totally different talent.
Running has nothing to do with the first two.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha

No, those don't go together.
Throwing, Fastball, curveball, slider are one talent.
Batting is a totally different talent.
Running has nothing to do with the first two.

Arrr, they be all part of the same skill, save Running mayhaps, in GURPS terms howe'er.

[Ze'Manel Cunha]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Arrr, they be all part of the same skill, save Running mayhaps, in GURPS terms howe'er.

Don't be silly, or are you going to sit there and tell me that any of the talented major league pitchers show an equivalent type of talent to bat?

And don't mind my AL bias, most NL pitchers can't hit either.

Besides, what in the world does a batting talent have to do with throwing a ball?

[warmachine]

The scientists thought they found the nature of the unstoppable thread and finally destroyed it. But they were wrong.

This Talent is inspired by Starbuck of the new Battlestar Galactica. It's intended for contemporary and sci-fi settings where gunplay is more common than hand-to-hand.

Tussler: You get in close, fight furiously, spot mistakes and react faster. Skills: Boxing, Brawling, Driving (dogfighting only), Interrogation, Intimidation, Judo, Karate, Knife, Piloting (dogfighting only), Sports, Tactics, Wrestling. Reaction bonus: street fighters and combat pilots. 10 points/level.