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beccaelizabethTo try and type up a public school education, with likely extracurricular activities, going on to an Oxford degree, and with a degree of wealth reflecting their likely social background
you get an Adventurer level character.
You don't get an ordinary character when you can't get it to have less than 40 points of skills, plus Wealthy.
I think I tend to underestimate the kind of character points you get out of a modern education.
They're not just default stuff, since you could easily grow up not learning most things.
I mean, if you include PE and summer clubs, kids get to learn swimming, climbing, hiking, running. Judo, archery. A couple of sports. A musical instrument, even if it's only a recorder. Singing and public speaking.
And then you get to the book learning stuff.
No less than four languages, at this one place I just looked up, because Latin and Greek, plus two modern languages. If you want to spend your weekends doing more then they have the tutors for it.
No less than four A levels, and a bunch of Christian Theology... which probably isn't compulsory everywhere, but if you think about it, a lot of assemblies and sundays has to add up to knowing something character sheet worthy. Because it compares to people raised in the jungle by wolves. Who would not know that stuff or any other stuff.
English literature and language, Maths to at least GCSE, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, probably a few craft skills and a bit of minor engineering, definitely computer use these days...
Education is really impressive.
You could bundle it all and call it a generally increased IQ and let people roll off defaults. I don't know though. I mean, a lot of random things, we might know from watching the TV, and we can certainly Research now.
Usually it don't much matter putting it all on the sheet because every character's default background knowledge is from the same sort of background. But if you're going to port them over to a different universe, it suddenly makes a whole lot of a difference. The amount of science the average high school student could retain would revolutionise whole tech levels.
I am now impressed with education.
Especially the rich people sort.
It pods out people with way more character points than hanging around watching sheep or TV gets.
you get an Adventurer level character.
You don't get an ordinary character when you can't get it to have less than 40 points of skills, plus Wealthy.
I think I tend to underestimate the kind of character points you get out of a modern education.
They're not just default stuff, since you could easily grow up not learning most things.
I mean, if you include PE and summer clubs, kids get to learn swimming, climbing, hiking, running. Judo, archery. A couple of sports. A musical instrument, even if it's only a recorder. Singing and public speaking.
And then you get to the book learning stuff.
No less than four languages, at this one place I just looked up, because Latin and Greek, plus two modern languages. If you want to spend your weekends doing more then they have the tutors for it.
No less than four A levels, and a bunch of Christian Theology... which probably isn't compulsory everywhere, but if you think about it, a lot of assemblies and sundays has to add up to knowing something character sheet worthy. Because it compares to people raised in the jungle by wolves. Who would not know that stuff or any other stuff.
English literature and language, Maths to at least GCSE, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, probably a few craft skills and a bit of minor engineering, definitely computer use these days...
Education is really impressive.
You could bundle it all and call it a generally increased IQ and let people roll off defaults. I don't know though. I mean, a lot of random things, we might know from watching the TV, and we can certainly Research now.
Usually it don't much matter putting it all on the sheet because every character's default background knowledge is from the same sort of background. But if you're going to port them over to a different universe, it suddenly makes a whole lot of a difference. The amount of science the average high school student could retain would revolutionise whole tech levels.
I am now impressed with education.
Especially the rich people sort.
It pods out people with way more character points than hanging around watching sheep or TV gets.