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2021-08-22, 02:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Are stats in LitRPGs just an excuse to avoid writing?
About the original question: Frequented use of full stat blocks and system pop ups are imo just padding. They add very little and usually describing the change with a short paragraph would be preferable to me. But some readers seem to love stat blocks so maybe it is for them.
Yeah sometimes you can, but other times someone just thinks they can and others can tell that they have no idea what they are talking about. And in this case you don't really know what you are talking about and are criticizing it based on ideas that have little to do with reality. I mean litrpgs are on average low quality even though there are some good ones. Their problems just have little to do with the things you said.
It varies. The mapping of game mechanics to a world can get rather weird. If it is just base stats it usually isn't much of a problem you just have a different way to mark how strong/tough/smart someone is. Adding hp can lead to weirdness but isn't that much of a problem. Other things can get weird like I have read some with barter skills or similiar that actually lower the costs based on a formula which is odd when trading with other intelligent beings. In many cases a story would be better if it wasn't a litrpg. But sometimes the world just works by weird gamelike rules but it is well integrated in the setting and works fine.
Do you have a name, am interested in reading a good litrpg satire?
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2021-08-22, 03:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Are stats in LitRPGs just an excuse to avoid writing?
Sure, it was called Cat Core, by Dean Henegar. From the Amazon-page blurb:
It was just supposed to be a quick trip to the pet store for some cat food, but the universe had other plans for Florence Valentine.
Good-for-nothing kids and some annoying store employees were giving her a hard time, and then things got worse when she was killed by a delivery truck. Instead of angels, pearly gates, and eternal rewards, a voice in her head keeps telling her that she’s become a dungeon core, whatever that is.
Now people keep coming into her new home, wrecking stuff, and stealing from her. But not everything about this whole ordeal is bad. Not only can Florence decorate her home with a thought, but she can also create the best things in the entire universe—she can create kitty-cats.
Should these hooligans keep insisting on coming into her home, well, Florence and her kitties are going to have something to say about that.NOW COMPLETE: Let's Play Starcraft II Trilogy:
Hell, It's About Time: Wings of Liberty
Does This Mutation Make Me Look Fat: Heart of the Swarm
My Life For Aiur? I Barely Know 'Er: Legacy of the Void