New characters start with basic life skills

[Fris0uman]

Summary

Balance "Characters start with basic skills from their previous life"

Purpose of change

Part of #67580

• Adds a few backgrounds covering some very common skills most of everyone should start with
• Make those on by default at the start of char gen

Describe the solution

Describe alternatives you've considered

Testing

• Start a custom character > the backgrounds are already there
• Play Now! > character has at least one in all skills they should
• Play Now! (default scenario) > same
• Random Character > All the backgrounds are there

Additional context

[github-actions]

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• You've spent a significant portion of your life living amongs other people here in New England and are familiar with the local social norms. You know how to talk with other people, and how to convey your emotions and understand those of others.

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[I-am-Erk]

Debatably we could put a few of these together, like adding social to high school graduate. Or driver's license could add driving 1 but so could mundane survival.

[Fris0uman]

Debatably we could put a few of these together, like adding social to high school graduate. Or driver's license could add driving 1 but so could mundane survival.

I made them modular on purpose so that it's easier to remove the specific thing you don't want. But I can condense them if necessary.

[bombasticSlacks]

You need rules for the translation parser. I believe you can just set it to null for this

[ampersand55]

If it would take "a day of dedicate work" to reach lvl 1 in a skill (as per #67580), shouldn't there be some sort of point cost for these? Not that 1 skill point is worth 1 point, but perhaps we could make the point system more granular or lump all "normal skills" into one and make that worth 1-2 points, or have "don't know shit" profession without these starting skills that are worth a point or two?

[Fris0uman]

Points are going away after next stable, no need to worry about that

[ampersand55]

Won't points still be considered for the "knowledge: average" etc stuff or will they be removed entirely?

[Fris0uman]

Pretty sure points are useless. See #64697 for how the new system works

[ampersand55]

Ah, thanks for telling me.

[I-am-Erk]

If it would take "a day of dedicate work" to reach lvl 1 in a skill (as per #67580), shouldn't there be some sort of point cost for these? Not that 1 skill point is worth 1 point, but perhaps we could make the point system more granular or lump all "normal skills" into one and make that worth 1-2 points, or have "don't know shit" profession without these starting skills that are worth a point or two?

Even regardless, that's a suggestion issue for goals and planning and shouldn't be treated as a design document.

[anoobindisguise]

How will this affect the "knowledge" score? Has that been adjusted? Someone with only these basic life skills should probably still be Weak and not Average (but not Underpowered) since that means they literally just coasted through high school and haven't learned anything beyond the absolute bare minimum.

[I-am-Erk]

I think the char gen screen does need adjusting, but it doesn't need to be in this pr