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Old 07-22-2021, 12:31 AM   #28
cosmicfish
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
Default Re: [Basic] Skill of the week: Engineer

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Originally Posted by Stormcrow View Post
Don't confuse "engineer" the profession with Engineer the skill. The GURPS skill Engineer is not "that which an engineer does"; it's the skill of designing things, divorced from all the other things that designers do. That's another header from How to Be a GURPS GM: Managing Expectations that applies here: "Read Rules, Not Titles."
And this is consistent with many professions in GURPS. Just about any job in the game requires multiple skills, and the exceptions are really technicians with a very narrow job description. You can see this in just about every template out there. As an easy example, there is a Soldier skill, but no actual soldier at any TL could be even marginally effective with just that skill.
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