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Originally Posted by Varyon

Are equipment bonds limited to improving one skill? It occurs to me the PC may be able to claim the bonus to Computer Operation, Artist (Virtual Reality), Typing, and possibly Writing (other cases where she's using the computer are probably too tangential, such as Research). I mean, it's not like a character who grabs Weapon Bond with a weapon that's usable with multiple skills only gets the bonus with one of those skills - someone with Weapon Bond to a spear should probably get the +1 when using it with Spear, Staff, Broadsword/Two-Handed Sword (like a jo or quarterstaff held at one end, depending on the length of the spear), Thrown Weapon (Spear), and possibly Spear-Thrower (if it's compatible with such).

Under that interpretation, that Perk is already earning its keep, and will be in even better shape once she starts improving those skills.

I had assumed that it would benefit both Computer Operation and Artist (Virtual Reality). I would say probably not Typing; my guess is that that would depend more on the keyboard than on the computer. I'm not sure that keyboards have enough subtle variability for one of them to provide an Equipment Bond; do you think that works? But Computer Operation and Artist will probably be her primary uses of the equipment.

I'm up in the air about the applicability of Equipment Bond to Writing, at any TL—quill pens, manual typewriters, or word processing programs. Is it the equipment that matters here? There is software designed to aid writing, of course, but I think it would be too generous to let the computer give +1 to every program it runs to aid in any professional skill. And so far GURPS doesn't have "Software Bond." I'm not sure it should.