TFT vs. GURPS?

[David L Pulver]

Originally Posted by hcobb

The biggest missing bit from GURPS in TFT (given our setting) is the ability to easily pick up the basics of a talent and then improve on that to any level of expertise.

For me, it's the Defense roll that GURPS has that is the most fundamental difference, and its resultant massive increase in fiction emulation (while at the same time making combat more luck-based and less of a chess match).