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Originally Posted by scc
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So using a character from modern day New York City as an example we'll look at what skills a character should have.
Housekeeping, because they need to eat and keep their apartment clean.
Navigation (Land) so you can find your way around.
Area Knowledge, how can you not know stuff about the city you live in?
Current Affairs, at the very least for NYC, also possible a state and national or even international versions depending upon how much you keep up with the news.
Computer Operation, you live in the 21st century after all, you can use a computer.
Savoir-Faire or Streetwise, you can talk to people right?
Hiking, Driving, or Bicycling, you have some means of getting around.
Accounting assuming you can balance a checkbook and aren't living paycheck to paycheck.
Administration or maybe something like Bureaucracy, because you have to deal with the government at some point
Urban Survival, enough said.
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Housekeeping: for a TL6 housewife who works at it all day but a TL8 urbanite who works at it part-time at best? Not so much. Maybe at default.
Navigation(Land): is for finding your way through the trackless wilderness. Not places with street signs.
Area Knowledge is a maybe but a lot of people probably use it at default.
Current Affairs is a pretty definte no. See late night talk shows shows and their "Man in the street" segments.
Computer Operation is a probable yes.
Savoir Faire is for high status people and Streetwise is for low Status types. there's no Skill for talking to people of equal Status. There isn't really a Skill thatis required jsut to talk to people anyway.
Hiking si for people who walk all day with the seriouis intent of covering ground. You don't need the Skill jsut to walk. Bicycling the same. Driving is a maybe for people who drive every day.
Adminstratiomn is for working bureaucrats. Just because regualr folks ahve to deal with bureaucracies doesn't mean they're any good at it.
Accounting is another Prfessional skill gnerally limited to persons working in that profession.
In general there was a lot of "If someone does something they have to have a Skill to cover it!" on your list and that just isn't true as a basic principle.