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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Staffan" data-source="post: 9786529" data-attributes="member: 907">I'm pretty sure GURPS 3e had a specific mention of how getting around Cannot Speak/Mute via telepathy meant you didn't get any points for Cannot Speak (but I can't be bothered to look it up). I did check 4e and it does not have such a mention, and it even implies that compensating for it is OK – it says "All communications with others must be nonverbal: writing, sign language, Morse code, telepathy, etc."In this particular case it sort of makes sense, because (depending on the specifics), telepathy doesn't fully cover for mute. For one thing, it likely won't be picked up by microphones and the like, it might have a limited range, and it might be limited to 1-on-1 communication.On the other hand, Blindness does specify that you can't take it along with compensatory vision abilities (notably Infra- and Ultravision, because they have variants that replace normal sight with the advantage), but you can combine it with Scanning Sense and Vibration Sense because those aren't vision.</blockquote>