Help! Skills Outside of the Core Books - Page 2

Phantasm · 10-29-2024, 10:10 AM

IME, most of the wholly new skills are fairly niche: Imbuement skills in Power-Ups 1: Imbuements, Power skills in Psionic Powers, etc. New and revised specialties pop up all over the place, but are often (but not always) setting- or genre-specific*; plus, they can end up buried in side-boxes, such as Guns (Wrist Gun) getting buried in a side-box in High-Tech.

GURPS being a toolkit, it's entirely possible to alter the skills (see Power-Ups 10: Skill Trees for a total rework) for your campaign. I've done so several times, mostly in my space opera games (a lot of the changes I made in my custom space opera setting's skill list were tested nearly a decade and a half ago in a Star Wars game, when all I had was the Basic Set and Ultra-Tech).

* I'm actually surprised Driving (Hovercycle), distinct from Driving (Hovercraft), hasn't shown up in an official book or Pyramid article yet, tbh.

johndallman · 10-31-2024, 07:09 PM

There's an index to the Skill of the Week series of postings here.

Anaraxes · 11-01-2024, 09:12 AM

Three sources which at least aspire to being complete lists below. I can't vouch for the completeness or correctness of any of them. (Not solely because I'm lazy, but also because I don't have all the published GURPS books, much less all the Pyramids.)

https://gurps.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Skills
https://gurpsland.no-ip.org/pdf/Comp...phabetical.pdf
http://gurpswiki.wikidot.com/ind:skills

dagothdoom · 11-29-2024, 06:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Kesendeja

I'm trying to find all the skills listed outside of the core books. It seems that every-time I open a book or article, there's another skill popping up.

If you beautiful people could just let me know what's where it would be a lifesaver. (I'm think I'm finally caught up with buying the last of the 4th ed stuff, so it's a daunting task to go though.)

Truthfully it's the Pyramid's that's scaring me.

I'll try and make a list in the second post for quick reference, since this might be something useful in general.

If you download GCS Gurps Character Sheet), the libraries have a decent amount of listings for skills, that usually give a book and page reference to learn more

fritzbc · 11-29-2024, 06:49 PM

What Dagothdoom said. GCS has a large compilation of skills, advantages, equipment, notes, rule links, etc.

10-29-2024, 10:10 AM	#11
Phantasm Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: On the road again...	Re: Help! Skills Outside of the Core Books IME, most of the wholly new skills are fairly niche: Imbuement skills in Power-Ups 1: Imbuements, Power skills in Psionic Powers, etc. New and revised specialties pop up all over the place, but are often (but not always) setting- or genre-specific; plus, they can end up buried in side-boxes, such as Guns (Wrist Gun) getting buried in a side-box in High-Tech. GURPS being a toolkit, it's entirely possible to alter the skills (see Power-Ups 10: Skill Trees for a total rework) for your campaign. I've done so several times, mostly in my space opera games (a lot of the changes I made in my custom space opera setting's skill list were tested nearly a decade and a half ago in a Star Wars* game, when all I had was the Basic Set and Ultra-Tech). * I'm actually surprised Driving (Hovercycle), distinct from Driving (Hovercraft), hasn't shown up in an official book or Pyramid article yet, tbh. __________________ "Life ... is an Oreo cookie." - J'onn J'onzz, 1991 "But mom, I don't wanna go back in the dungeon!" The GURPS Marvel Universe Reboot Project A-G, H-R, and S-Z, and its not-a-wiki-really web adaptation. Ranoc, a Muskets-and-Magery Renaissance Fantasy Setting

10-31-2024, 07:09 PM	#12
johndallman Night Watchman Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Cambridge, UK	Re: Help! Skills Outside of the Core Books There's an index to the Skill of the Week series of postings here. __________________ The Path of Cunning. Indexes: DFRPG Characters, Advantage of the Week, Disadvantage of the Week, Skill of the Week, Techniques.

11-01-2024, 09:12 AM	#13
Anaraxes Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: Help! Skills Outside of the Core Books Three sources which at least aspire to being complete lists below. I can't vouch for the completeness or correctness of any of them. (Not solely because I'm lazy, but also because I don't have all the published GURPS books, much less all the Pyramids.) https://gurps.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Skills https://gurpsland.no-ip.org/pdf/Comp...phabetical.pdf http://gurpswiki.wikidot.com/ind:skills

11-29-2024, 06:49 PM	#15
fritzbc Join Date: Nov 2024 Location: Northern Midwest, North America	Re: Help! Skills Outside of the Core Books What Dagothdoom said. GCS has a large compilation of skills, advantages, equipment, notes, rule links, etc. __________________ I apologize for my idiocy in advance. I run a GURPS (and other things) blog started very recently.