Free packages represent skills and knowledge that everyone in a given society can be assumed to have. There is no standardisation among free packages; it is quite possible that advances in education will make people from a more advanced culture simply better off than those from a primitive culture. On the other hand it may follow that people from a highly stressful culture may have vastly more survival skills than those from a "soft" urban environment.
Final note: there are some skills that everyone is assumed to have independent of culture. These are Pain Resistance, Search, and Initiative, and represent the character's ability to continue to act towards goals in the face of pain, the ability to find something that is hidden, and the ability to act decisively in highly stressful situations, such as combat.
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Free Packages (Examples) | |
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Setting |
Free Fields and Skills (skills are in bold) |
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c. 1200 - medieval Europe |
Languageuage: Saxon (or whatever), athletics, dancing, climbing, stealth |
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c. 1970 - first world country |
Language: English (or whatever), literacy, athletics, swimming, climbing, stealth |
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Near Future |
Language: any terrestrial, literacy, basic physics, basic math, athletics, stealth |
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Far Future, Civilised World |
Language: English, literacy, basic history, basic math, basic physics, athletics, charisma |
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Far Future, Colony World |
Language: (English?), literacy, basic math, athletics, climbing, jumping, stealth |