Skills for a hypothetical Lab Work talent

[Anaraxes]

Research
Writing (reports, presentations, papers)
Poisons
First Aid (for treatment after accidents)

[Anthony]

If you want all the skills that default to Chemistry, just buy vast quantities of Chemistry skill and get the others as defaults. Talents are more useful when things don't default.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Anthony

If you want all the skills that default to Chemistry, just buy vast quantities of Chemistry skill and get the others as defaults. Talents are more useful when things don't default.

I prefer less silly characters than those with skills of 16 or more. Most chemistry defaults are -5, pretty much making them all but useless for realistic chemists.
But I did initially look into doing just that.

[roguebfl]

Originally Posted by Anthony

Talents are more useful when things don't default.

Talent bonuses do not carry across to the default unless the defaulted skill is also in the Talent.

[Flyndaran]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

Research
Writing (reports, presentations, papers)
Poisons
First Aid (for treatment after accidents)

Talents aren't supposed to be everything that could help someone in a certain profession. They're supposed to involve a cohesive ability.

[Anaraxes]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Talents aren't supposed to be everything that could help someone in a certain profession. They're supposed to involve a cohesive ability.

They're also not supposed to be a way to boost some cherry-picked skills, all of which a player was going to buy anyway, just to save points.

I'm suggesting other possible inclusions in a Talent for consideration, not defining its exact and entire composition for you.

[Flyndaran]

Strawman alert.
I'm trying to formulate a chemical-y talent.
Some here seem to want to add skills that have zero connection to chemistry except professionally.
I want a talent that pertains to chemistry, not chemists.

[Xplo]

Originally Posted by Anaraxes

They're also not supposed to be a way to boost some cherry-picked skills, all of which a player was going to buy anyway, just to save points.

This is actually exactly what they're for. Anyone who doesn't buy all or nearly all of the skills in a talent is probably throwing away CP. The important stipulation is that those skills should match some kind of recognizable theme or field of competency.

[sir_pudding]

Originally Posted by Xplo

Anyone who doesn't buy all or nearly all of the skills in a talent is probably throwing away CP.

I don't think this is necessarily true, often getting a bonus to defaults of a few of the skills and putting points in the rest is enough. DF Scouts don't have Naturalist on their template, for example, but still usually have a pretty good default thanks to Outdoorsman.

[Captain Joy]

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

Talents aren't supposed to be everything that could help someone in a certain profession. They're supposed to involve a cohesive ability.

With the exception of Job Training talents, of course: "You’ve received the intensive training necessary to do a demanding job."—Power Ups 3: Talents, pp. 25–26.