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On 5/2/25 12:48, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <vv3608$1p6j9$1@dont-email.me>,
> William Hyde  <wthyde1953@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> As you may have guessed from my mention of mana and the Interface,
>>> the world here is litRPG, but not annoyingly so.
>>
>> "LitRPG"?
>>
>> Does this mean the author rolls dice to determine plot twists?  Or is
>> the world/magic system just taken from some RPG?
>>
>> William Hyde
> 
> I'm not a gamer, so everything I know about RPG I learned from LitRPG.
> I would say it seems to me that in general the authors know where they
> are going and leverage the RPG magic system to get there rather than
> constructing a plot via dice rolls.  (Though I have heard different
> about the first LitRPG).
> 
> I have enjoyed some of them quite a bit & I find this one entertaining.

	Not directly to the point but Philip K. Dick is said to have
used the I-Ching in plotting "The Man in the High Castle" 1962 	Hugo 
Award winner, 1963 and considering his substance use and the 1960s
he might well have done so.

	bliss