A Template is designed to speed up the character creation process by offering a partly filled out character sheet. They preset a combination of Attributes, Advantages, Disadvantages, and Skills that would be a realistic start for whatever type of character the player was trying to make.
There are two types of templates in character creation - Character Templates and Racial Templates , though there are the related concepts Meta-Traits and Lens
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Sean Punch has commented on templates in the following posts on the SJG GURPS Forums:
- On the purpose of dividing skills in templates into primary, secondary, and background
- More on the primary/secondary/background division
- On deciding what goes in a template
- On what must be accounted for to differentiate a racial template from human
- On the market appeal of templates
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- Basic Set pg 258-263