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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Ahasuerus <ahasuerus@email.com> Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: RI March 2025 Date: Fri, 2 May 2025 17:38:16 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: <vv3e09$1v3dv$1@dont-email.me> References: <m7iu81Fg2d3U2@mid.individual.net> <vv3608$1p6j9$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 02 May 2025 23:38:17 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f88af7b391c98aca37cd58bb752aa40b"; logging-data="2067903"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/dUcPY4DJOCc4noZZw+3jg7fe51LNNoyc=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:4g3uRa1OJENA1SCx/A/YlS6SX3Q= In-Reply-To: <vv3608$1p6j9$1@dont-email.me> Content-Language: en-US On 5/2/2025 3:21 PM, William Hyde 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? Some Web-based "quests" [1] use dice, but most LitRPG books do not. To quote from the definition used by https://www.reddit.com/r/litrpg/ : > Games or game-like challenges form an essential part of the story and visible RPG statistics (for example strength, intelligence, damage) are a significant part of the reading experience. Most LitRPGs form a subset of "progression SF". In progression SF the emphasis is on characters progressing in some fashion; in LitRPG their progress is quantified using RPG-like statistics. Other commonly used game-like mechanics include some kind of "System" or AI governing the world. After all, someone needs to decide that killing 5 wolves or 50 rabbits is worth 100 points of "XP" [experience]. The two most common types of LitRPG novels are: 1. Isekai/portal fantasies in which the protagonist is transported to another world governed by an RPG-like System. 2. "System Apocalypse"-like stories in which our Earth is transformed, often in an apocalyptic fashion, and is now run by a System. [1] Think of them as volunteer-run "choose your own adventure" projects with online readers voting at the end of each chapter.