[GURPS Fenspace] Building Tips and Hints

[robkelk]

Per: 14 [10]

5 points, not 10.

Esoteric Medicine/TL8^-16 [4] (Per+2 Healer Talent)
...
First Aid/TL8-16 [2] (IQ+1+2 Healer Talent)
...
Medicine! (Supers p.37)-15 [24] (IQ+2 Healer Talent)

Medicine! includes First Aid and Esoteric Medicine. You save three more points by defaulting the higher skills to the lower (wildcard) skill, like so:

Esoteric Medicine/TL8^-16 [2] (Medicine!+1)
First Aid/TL8-16 [1] (Medicine!+1)

You already have the Healer Talent factored into Medicine!, so you don't need to list it again with Esoteric Medicine or First Aid.

This changes early A.C.'s point total from 413 to 405 without changing his abilities at all.

One more possibility:

Computer Hacking/TL8-10 [1] (IQ-3)
Computer Operation/TL8-16 [8] (IQ+3)
Computer Programming/TL8-14 [12] (IQ+1)
...
Electronics Repair/TL8^ (Computers)-17 [8] (IQ+2+2 Artificer Talent),

You can bundle these skills together under the Computers! wildcard skill (GURPS Supers, pg. 36) and default the Computer Operation, Computer Programming and Electronics Repair skills from the Computers! skill. You'd save one point and pick up a few more skills, including a few related to computer security. But if for some reason you didn't want to have any computer security skills early on, this would be bad.
--
Rob Kelk
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