General Education
Mind Skill
General Education is a Mind Skill that covers well-rounded academic learning. The universal coursework covered through mandatory schooling along with a liberal arts education are most representative of the General Education Skill.
Characters with a high General Education Rank tend to be masters of trivia and local or regional knowledge, though they often have specializations in more narrow fields such as literature, history, and philosophy. It’s a good idea to think about a field of expertise or two to give the Skill more personal flavor.
Of course, General Education also encompasses basic training in mathematics, natural sciences, and other common fields. However, it’s safe to assume that most characters know the basics unless they have a Pathetic Rank in General Education.
General Education is most often tested when characters are faced with issues of politics and current events, such as knowing about the stances of local Gym Leaders or government officials on political issues or being familiar with the details of recent news stories. Knowledge of history is also a common usage; it can be useful to know that the reason a town is wary of the party is because they have a Camerupt with them and a pack of that Pokémon was responsible for devastating the town half a decade back.
Another way to treat General Education is as a catch-all Skill for a particular setting, covering common issues that aren’t associated well with other Education Skills but are important to the setting. A campaign with a law enforcement focus might use General Education to cover police protocol and the law, while a wild west campaign might use General Education to cover dueling etiquette and other narrative standbys in frontier life.
While General Education isn’t specialized in itself, it also represents a character’s skill in conducting research. Obviously, you should use more specific Education Skills instead when the sought after information is highly advanced or it is more relevant.
General Education, like most Education Skills, doesn’t have very many applications in Opposed Checks. At most, it might be used in a race determining who can research a specific piece of information first.
Prerequisites: Novice General Education or Novice Survival
Effect: You know how to grow Apricorns and Tier 1 Berries using a Portable Grower or Fertilized Soil.
Instruction
Prerequisite: Novice General Education
Effect: Whenever you aid an ally in an Assisted Skill Check using an Education Skill you have at Novice Rank or higher, add your full Rank value as a bonus to their roll instead of half.
Scholar
Prerequisites: Expert General Education
Effect: You gain a +1 Bonus to Skill Checks with General Education, Medicine Education, Occult Education, Pokemon Education, Technology Education, and Survival.
Groomer
Prerequisites: Novice Pokémon Education or Novice General Education
Effect: You know how to effectively groom your Pokémon with access to a Groomer's Kit. You may groom up to 6 Pokémon in one hour. Grooming Pokémon may count as an hour of Training, and you may apply Experience Training, teach Poke-Edges, and apply any Features that could be applied during Training. If you apply Experience Training from Grooming, use your General Education or Pokémon Education Rank to determine Bonus Experience gained during Training. A Pokémon that has been Groomed also gains a +1d6 Bonus to the Introduction Roll of a Contest for the rest of the day.