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Originally Posted by CeeDub
Pretty much all my characters have at least one point in the skill, unless I intend them to be slobs. I also recommend the same to any players whose characters regularly change their bedsheets, clean their dwellings and at least occasionally cook a meal instead of getting take-out. It's the Everyman skill, IMO.
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That's the interesting question:
Should the average IQ 10 character (keeping in mind that there are hundreds of millions, if not billions, of characters in any given RPG world)
have 1 point in Housekeeping, or not?
Same as with Cooking or Driving (although Driving is
controversial, on here). Or even Computer Operation (at certain TLs - it's fairly obvious that the average character didn't have any Computer Operation at early TL8, nor in that span of TL7 at which that skill had started being a thing).
There's also Dabbler. Why are you a slob if you've split your Dabbler four ways to put 1/4 point into Housekeeping, instead of putting a full point into Housekeeping? Are you a slob just because you have to text your mother when you need her advice on how to remove a particularly troublesome stain?
In fact there could be an Everyman version of Dabbler, split four ways into Computer Operation, Cooking, Housekeeping and one more (which isn't Driving - lots of people living in cities, at least European cities or perhaps American East Coast cities, can't drive), and if you don't have that then others will - eventually - conclude that there's something wrong with you (which could be a diagnosis of slobness).