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Originally Posted by Phil Masters
Many people don't. If you're asking whether PCs would be well advised to, that's up to them; in very many settings, they will have people (or robots, or house-elves) to do that for them. The theory that any decent person knows how to look after their own home is largely a modern conceit.
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Indeed. I've started exploring that more in my own homebrew RPG, how player characters from certain social backgrounds might be
surprisingly unfamiliar with things that someone more naive will take for granted that
everybody knows.
Doing something along those lines in GURPS, you could have one Everyman Dabbler Perk per gross social class (under, middle, upper), or even split it up into a 3x2 2D grid so that it's differentiated sex (by the sex that you were
raised as), so that for instance a normal male medieval noble Dabbles in Broadsword and Riding to the tune of 1/4 point each, but lacks the Everyman Dabbler Housekeeping or Cooking that anyone from an underclass background would have (even males would have at least 1/8 Housekeeping).