Sure, they’re handy and probably deserve a day.
Had to get up early for cleaners, who put things in very odd places but did clean the surfaces as I required.
Read (manga): Komi Can’t Communicate vol 34 (Tomohito Oda): The cultural festival, featuring lots of ramen. They’re like halfway through senior year, there can’t be that many volumes left for Komi to reach 100!
Written (game design): 290:
Backgrounds are freeform, we don’t need much of a list, but starting
feats (powers? abilities? schticks?) need both a list of options to pick
from, and (eventually, or maybe first) rules for creating new options.
Although it should probably be point-based, I’m not sure we need costs
other than 1, 2, and -1, at least for the basic list, although I might
be horribly wrong.
What goes in this list? Definitely the physical and magical advantages (or
disadvantages) of ancestries: enhanced senses, talking to animals, being
huge or tiny, breathing water, resistance to poison, stuff like that. If
we’re going classless, then the basic enabling abilities like being able
to cast spells would be here. A lot of D&D abilities like being able to
stab people in the back don’t count, because anybody can do them.
Strength, higher starting MP, starting HP, maybe faster movement (or
possibly the inverse of all of these as disads). Maybe a higher starting
rating for an action. Maybe extra backgrounds. If we’re classless, then
a larger or smaller attack die than the default would go here (otherwise
it would depend on your class, like Dungeon World). Maybe separate
attack dice for melee and ranged and magic, but that depends on combat
to get sorted out.
Earlier I suggested everybody who can spend MP has a natural talent they
can spend them on, apart from any class or class-like abilities, so that
would be a free pick on a sublist here.
If there aren’t any classes, then everything like combat techniques,
spells, opening locks with ki powers, summoning shadow monsters, turning
undead, etc, etc, would be on this list too, which isn’t bad but we
might need to set up a good system of prerequisites.