[gurps] Whimsical thought

[Brandon Cope]

hal at buffnet.net wrote:

> Hmmm - if we can have talents that emphasize a person's ability with a
> group of skills, can we have an anti-talent that shows he's less
> proficient with a set of skills?  How about an Anti-art talent?  The
> person couldn't draw or chisel or paint to save their lives?

As someone else pointed out, Incompetence (-1 per skill) covers this, though
the penalties are rather harsh.

However, I might allow an Anti-Talent (working opposite the way a regular
Talent works, and changing the cost from positive to negative), *but* the
skills covered by the Anti-Talent would have to be something that would come
up reasonably often in the campaign, so no Anti-Art Talent in a Special Ops
campaign (for instance). I do think that Anti-Combat Talents would be
appropriate, though, in most campaigns.
--
A generous and sadistic GM, Brandon Cope  http://www.geocities.com/copeab

"It has fallen upon me, now and again in my sojurns through the world, to ease
various evil men of their lives. I have a feeling it will prove thus with the
Baron."
-- Solomon Kane ("The Castle of the Devil", Robert E. Howard)