A Talent’s cost depends on the size of the group of skills affected:
　Small (6 or fewer related skills): 5 points/level.
　Medium (7 to 12 related skills): 10 points/level.
　Large (13 or more related skills*): 15 points/level.
　* There’s no hard upper limit, but a Talent that benefits 18+ skills is probably too broad.

　If a Talent affects a skill that has multiple specialties, treat all of its specialties as one skill for the purpose of calculating cost.
However, many Talents benefit only some specialties – those that suit the Talent!

There’s no discount for this, and a Talent never improves specialties that fall outside its area; subtract Talent before finding your default skill with specialties it doesn’t cover, and don’t add it back at the end.
For additional important notes on skill counts, see Counting Your Blessings (p. 5).

　No Talent should encompass wildcard skills (p. B175).
Wildcards are an alternative to Talents.
Both share the goal of using a single trait to improve many related skills at once.
Including such a skill in a Talent would be superfluous and possibly unbalanced.

　A Talent’s skill list is fixed when the Talent is created.
However, the GM might make exceptions for new skills he invents or allows from later GURPS supplements.
If so, then for simplicity’s sake, cost per level doesn’t change.

　The GM who feels that broad cost bands are unfair should check out the optional but more complex alternative of Smooth Talent Cost (p. 25).