GURPS - Compendium 1..

Sensie Talent
2 points/level
This advantage is only of value in settings where the technology
of recording and playing back sensory input (known as "sensies
") exists.
You have a natural ability to communicate your sensory
inputs to a sensie recorder so that your eventual audience will
find them particularly pleasant or intense. Note that Sensie
Talent does the character no good unless he also buys at least
half a point in the Sensie Interface skill (p. 130).
Sensitive
5 points
This is a weaker form of Empathy. Use the rules on p. B20,
but all rolls are made at a -3.
Serendipity
15/30 points
A type of Luck, this advantage does not affect die rolls in
any way. Instead, you have the knack of being in the right
place, at the right time. This is Luck of the Fortuitous
Coincidence. Bilbo Baggins showed this type of Luck when he
put out his hand in the dark and found the One Ring. An
extreme example, probably a few hundred points worth, is Carl
Barks' comic book character, Gladstone Gander (Donald
Duck's cousin), who has only to hold out his hat and something
valuable will fall into it!
For 15 points, once per game session your character gets
lucky in a serendipitous manner. One of the guardsmen he needs to
get by turns out to be his cousin, or he just happened to have
heard a story about the very dragon he is trying to track down.
The player may suggest serendipitous occurrences to the GM,
but the GM is the final arbiter on how the character gets lucky.
Should the GM reject a suggestion by the player, but never
work Serendipity into the session, the character should get two
such lucky occasions in the next gaming session.
For 30 points, the character will have either two happy coincidences
or one major one each gaming session!
Sharpshooter
45 points
This advantage is only appropriate in a cinematic campaign.
This is the cinematic ability that supernaturally accurate
shootists possess, the equivalent of Weapon Master (see p. 32),
but for handguns. To a sharpshooter, the gun is a natural extension
of his hand, and he can make uncannily precise shots without
aiming. Only handguns can be used in this manner.
The character never takes a Snap Shot penalty, and he automatically
gets the Accuracy bonus of his weapon without a turn
of aiming. Furthermore, he can use any handgun, from a flintlock
pistol to a hand blaster, at a default value of DX or his
highest gun skill-2, whichever is greater. The sharpshooter also
has an innate understanding of the workings of any handgun; he
can make Armoury rolls for any handgun, even models he has
never seen (apply the TL penalties for guns of different tech levels,
as per p. B185, but the maximum penalty is -6 to skill).
This advantage is utterly cinematic, and is available only during
character creation; someone is either born a Sharpshooter or he
isn't. No amount of training will give another character this
instinctual mastery of the gun.
Single-Minded
5 points
When a Single-Minded individual puts his mind to something,
he concentrates! This gives a +3 bonus when working on
lengthy tasks, or when tracking prey. He may ignore other
important tasks while obsessed (make a Will roll to avoid this).
Roll at -5 to notice interruptions.
Style Familiarity
1 to 25 points
This indicates a general knowledge of (but not training in)
one or more martial arts styles (see GURPS Martial Arts).
Without this advantage, a character defends at -1 against a fighter
trained in a particular style.
The number of styles a character is familiar with determines
the point cost. Each style chosen costs 1 character point.
Familiarity with all known styles in the game world costs 20
points. This will not identify secret styles that are only known to
their students, unless the character specifies he has fought them in
the past (which might cost up to 5 points more, depending on the
role of secret styles in the campaign).
Unless he buys the advantage at the 20-point level or better,
the character must specify which styles he is familiar with.
When a character encounters an opponent using a familiar style,
he will recognize it after the first round of combat. On an IQ
roll, he will recognize it before combat, by observing the opponent's
stance.
To acquire this familiarity during play, a student must not
only spend the appropriate character points, but must also have
access to appropriate teachers. Films are not an acceptable substitute.
However, a single day of sparring with a teacher would
be enough to add familiarity with a new style.
Temperature Tolerance
1 point/level
The advantage was originally only available in IQ-point
units; however, since a point or two of this advantage would be
reasonable in a realistic campaign, it can now be bought in 1-
point units. More than 2 points would definitely be cinematic for a
human character.
You can function normally at a wider range of temperatures
than a normal human. For game purposes, a temperature "comfort
zone" of about 55° is considered normal. Each level of this
advantage allows you to add HT degrees to the size of your
comfort zone. For nonhumans, the GM determines exactly
where this comfort zone is centered; for humans, it is usually
between 35 and 90°. A character never suffers any ill effects
(such as the loss of Fatigue or HT) from temperatures that fall
within his comfort zone.
This advantage confers no special resistance to attacks by
fire or ice unless the only damage is a result of a rise or fall in
the ambient temperature. In particular, this will not help you if
your body temperature is being manipulated.
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