GURPS Essential core books

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Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Why not just not have a Style and take them as General Perks, which apparently (at least according to Doug Cole and Shawn Fisher) you always can.

Because the GM says you can't. Such rules are optional. If the referee chooses to use them in its' game, attempting to bypass the spirit of those rules is unlikely to go over well.