Skills, skills everywhere

[Gollum]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

Don't forget Dabbler!

I don't know that perk. I begin to understand how it works (thanks to this thread) but, as far as I understand it, it doesn't sound to be a miraculous solution: how many skills are involved when you take it?

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

If most people are 25 point characters with no severe disadvantages, we probably don't actually have 30+ points in skills. Especially when you consider that most of us have one or two job related skills at professional levels.

Did you ever try to stat yourself as a GURPS character?

For myself, it's impossible to do it with only 25 points. I'm not at all a superman, neither a hero, but I learned a lot of different things. So, I have a lot of skills and not just at the default level...

The "problem" of GURPS 4th edition (which is not really a problem, since it is a game mainly design for adventures) is that there is not anymore the half-point of the third edition. This half point was interesting to create ordinary people who know a lot of things at a low level.

Another "problem" (which is neither a true problem) is that GURPS skills are very specialized. Take Games, for instance, or Sports. If you know well enough 3 of them, you have to take 3 different skills.

I can play chess, checkers, several card games, several wargames and game master at minimum 5 different role playing games. Add to that the fact that my karate style requires two different skills (Judo and Karate), and a dozen of different techniques (if I use Martial Arts) and you will quickly understand that my character sheet will have more than 10 different skills just for my leisure activities!

The 25 points are made to design an average NPC or very quickly made PC for games where they die often (like an horror one shot adventure): a job, only one leisure activity, and a couple of other skills to customize it.

But a soon as you want to create a detailed realistic character, you need more than that.