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Originally Posted by johndallman
There is a problem with Contacts in that sometimes what you want from them isn't readily modelled by a skill.
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I've tended to regard a Contact's skill as a fairly abstract thing: your police contact with skill-18 has that skill level at "doing cop things", whether in person or by asking friends on the force. It might be a licence plate search, or bumping a crime report up or down the investigation stack, or an introduction to a pathologist who won't ask silly questions about that strange tissue sample, none of which is really a job for a straight skill roll in GURPS.
(I'm certainly influenced here by Dark Conspiracy, where you just had a "police" or "military" or "criminal" contact, and didn't even define them until you wanted to.)