Whats the practical difference between a social science (say, sociology) and an Expert skill?
A. The difference is that we’ve cooked social sciences in GURPS to have applications. Psychology is really about mind control, out-thinking psychos, and predicting what people will do. Sociology is about the same, but for societies. And neither is the classroom subject. This is GURPS’ adventure game-nature shining through, once again. We worked hard to give skill applications on adventures in Fourth Edition. The ones that lack those things . . . they’re mostly gone, or explicitly sealed off in compartments. Q.
