I already have plans for item qualities. The way we implemented (as a comma separated list) was an idea I had when looking at how some actions/powers and other fields were implemented in DND5
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If you look at the actions field, each particular piece of it (the action, damage result etca) is parsed separatelly, even though it is a simple text field.
I will be implementing this for SW/Genesys, so the specials field will be interpreted when we get to have automations
But before automations, soon I will be adding a specials database, and I will be adding at least this parsing functionality so that when you hover your mouse over and click, a window will popup with a record in the specials database, for that entry