Advantage and Skill

Advantage

Advantage noun - The more favorable condition or position in a competition.

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Skill and advantage are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Skill" instead a noun "Advantage".

Skill noun - Subtle or imaginative ability in inventing, devising, or executing something.

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Advantage and skill are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Advantage" instead a noun "Skill".

Nearby Words: skilled, skillfully, skilful, skilly

good	good advantage	good skill
high	high advantage	high skill
physical	physical advantage	physical skill
full	full advantage	full skill
Other adjectives: special, best, particular, considerable, single, sheer, powerful, actual, real, great, little, main, personal, new, unique, useful, incredible, greater, greatest, tactical.

With its iconic clean attribute/skill/advantage/disadvantage four-way split, GURPS is probably also the codifier for Skill Scores and Perks.

Source: Trope Codifier
In another, similar fashion, you can create a custom spell that drains your skills to abysmal levels, then take advantage of your new pathetic skill points to get extremely cheap skill tutoring.

Source: Game Breaker / The Elder Scrolls
In some circumstances, two characters may make directly opposed skill rolls - in such cases, higher skill is always an advantage.

Source: Parabolic Power Curve

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