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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thullgrim" data-source="post: 9731512" data-attributes="member: 8103">Essentially Wildcard skills are bundles of related skills priced more expensively than normal.  They are definable for any campaign you want but the supplement has guidelines for creating them and a whole slew of worked examples..   They reduce the number of skills on a character sheet but at the cost of granularity.  Science! Would be a single skill covering biology, chemistry, physics, geology, and whatever other specific science skills are on the list as well as probably some kind of writing, research, and so on.I've quoted the Science! Wildcard skill below (from GURPS Basic Set: Characters, 175)When you need to identify a blood type you could roll Biology or in a game that uses Wildcard skills Science!They can also coexist in a game with regular skills. For instance you might define a wildcard skill for Barbarian! (and GURPS Dungeon Fantasy 1: Adventurers has the option to use wildcard skills on page 18) but still use individual weapon skills. The Barbarian character would still need to but his combat skills separately.  The core wilderness skills of the Barbarian though are all rolled into the Barbarian! wildcard skill.</blockquote>