Fundamentals: Talents and Wildcard Skills

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buying spree and got this.
Looks better than I expected.

Today I'm going to write about two different elements of GURPS that try to achieve similar semantic ends, but through different mechanical means. These two elements are:

• Talents - advantages that make you competent at several related skills.
• Wildcard Skills - a skill the bundles several skills at one, giving competence across the board.

I will compare and contrast these devices and try to piece together when one might prefer using one or the other. Let's take a look.

Sorcery: Bestow Talent

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So, today, I'm in a bit of writer's block, so I'm taking a step back, and doing a more simple ability to take a bit more of a pedagogical bent, a "teach you how to fish" thing, so to speak. So here we are, let's do this thing.