Skills, skills everywhere

[simply Nathan]

Originally Posted by Gollum

how many skills are involved when you take it?

What it does is rather than a single point going into a single skill and giving what is usually +4 to default, you divide it into eight smaller units; each 1/8th of a point gives +1 to a default, 1/4 of a point gives +2 to the default, and 1/2 point gives +3 to default. And there is no realistic limit on the number of times you could take this Perk, just a gamist limit on the number of Perks to take before your character sheet is too cluttered to play with.

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

Many times, vastly overestimating my competency. Now that I know about Dabbler and the meaning of default skill values, I wouldn't give myself IQ 12-13 and a point total around 100 anymore; I don't actually have many skills at a workable level

For myself, it's impossible to do it with only 25 points.

Same here, but this is because I have a decent attribute spread, very few Disadvantages, and several of those minor 5-point Advantages like Resistant to Poison, Resistant to Disease, and Eidetic Memory. I'm a person in the 50-75 range.

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...

You very likely don't qualify for a full point in more than one dozen skills, but if you really are well-read and have a broad education you might have as many Dabbler perks as needed to have better-than-usual defaults in a few areas.

I can play chess, checkers, several card games, several wargames and game master at minimum 5 different role playing games.

Checkers gets a decent default from chess from what I can tell, and is a fairly simple game. Being able to play it doesn't even indicate much if any more familiarity than default. And as for RPGs, I'd say that's a single skill of Games(Role-Playing) with Techniques for different rulesets, since the basic principles are shared between systems for the most part.

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.

25 is the low end of "normal person", the range is 25-50. That's plenty of points to give someone 20 points' worth in a dozen or so skills, which covers detailed and realistic people just fine.