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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 5446609" data-attributes="member: 11437">Not according to the book.From what I posted above about the Survival skill:I think what they're saying at the end of the Survival skill is that you can't even default to anything between planets of different types.  For example, having Survival - Desert (Earthlike) would have no application on a Rock World.Of course, as the GM in a game where the characters are likely to be traveling to a LOT of different planets, the flaw in how GURPS handles the Survival skill should be pretty obvious.  You could rule that characters buy Survival for terrain by planet type and not specific planets.  I find this a reasonable solution in a game where characters can be expected to move around a lot.On the other hand, the defaults they're talking about are (Skill -4) and the normal skill default is (Perception -5).  Unless someone bought an awful lot of Survival, you're really just talking about the difference of a -1 or -2 at the most.</blockquote>