Can you learn Empathy?

[Kromm]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

And, despite Kromm's notes on Empathy in 4e, can't immediately shoot kiddie monsters in 3e's Flight 13. :)

. . . which I'd call an error. The author saw the word "Empathy" and ran with it, not stopping to check what it meant in game terms. As an editor, I fix such mistakes all the time. I dislike seeing advantages twisted to limit those who paid points for them. If you want a "realistically" empathetic person, take a suitable mental disad alongside Empathy; if you want a Patron to exert an obligation, add a Duty as well; and so on. I wasn't working here in 1989, though.

Incidentally, that adventure might say, "It requires only the GURPS Basic Set, Third Edition," but it was really written for GURPS Second Edition. It's truly ancient.