Pretty sure this one is also every day.

Intestines still sus, did not go to the office.

Read (manga): MurciƩlago vol 3 (Yoshimurakana): Look, another girl for Kuroko to mack on! Also a cult.

Read (novel): Strange New World (Vivian Shaw): It is way more fallout from the previous book (Grave Importance) and way less road trip than the blurb led me to believe. Still Greta being competent and not too judgmental about who she treats.

Written (game design): 306:

If everything is skills, then we need a set of skills that covers
everything PCs do (that they might do under pressure and have to roll
for, anyway), something like Scum & Villainy’s twelve actions, although
it’s probably fine for there to be more of them, maybe up to twenty or
so.

(Is this really just stats by another name? No, because a) these are the
skill ratings, not just extra numbers that go into calculating the
ratings, and b) framing them as things you learned to do instead of
things you just are is different to the human players.)

Every character has to have ratings in all these skills (except maybe
special ones like magic or flying, for capabilities not all characters
have access to), even if it’s default/+0/8-, so we can’t use that for
determining whether somebody knows what they’re doing for purposes of
not getting more Difficulty when doing the thing. We could set a
threshold, like if you have 11- or better you count as knowing what
you’re doing for anything within that field, but having a low value is
already its own punishment. Knowing what you’re doing depends on your
history: what did you learn to do? This can be like 13th Age
freeform backgrounds: jobs, hobbies, raised by giant spiders,
whatever. If you have at least one that applies to what you’re
trying to do, you don’t get the extra Difficulty for being clueless.

Allowing freeform backgrounds can be fraught, because there’s always
somebody who will take “Literally Batman” and somebody who will
take “Worst Hockey Team Mascot Ever”, but at least here they don’t
give bonuses: how good you actually are at getting things done
depends on your skills. Also, like in 13th Age, every character can
have a few, so it’s fine if one is only for flavor.

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