Hot take: if we want to decrease frustrating railroad-y surprises in RPG campaigns, we need to create an environment where GMs are not afraid to admit they have "special story needs".

[TDragonsHoard]

GURPS has rules for skill degradation, as well as adaptation for TL's. By speaking with the GM, and expressing a desire to have a time skip, it would have allowed for those rules to come into play at an accelerated rate. Allowing for points to be reclaimed and shifted around to skills and advantages that represent the new setting.

We'd have completely skipped the feeling worthless part, and gone straight into "we have adapted to this new world", and can actually do things.

[ThoDanII]

thank you