[gurps] Whimsical thought

[Keith Bernard]

I agree...otherwise munchkins would abuse the anti-talent to get the
points.  You could couple it with a Delusion or Compulsion to try to use
that skill.  Otherwise, its only worth the -1 for a Quirk.

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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.
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