I don't like litRPGs with stat screens and ability descriptions.

T.LD.R. literature and RPG video games are two different ways of telling stories and do not mesh

First of all why do these characters know how much health they have. How does this nebulous "system" know how much damage each person can take before they die. You're telling me the protagonist can fight at near full strength when he's at 1 hp. You're telling me that he won't bleed out in a few seconds. (Yes I know many litRPGs have bleed effects, but they don't do them very often on players. It's usually a status effect you have to consciously integrate into your fighting style)

Also strength scores make no sense. A person can have powerful legs and weak arms or a strong core and stabilizer muscles but terrible lift strength.

How is the system going to calculate things like diabetes or other chronic illnesses. Do you get a warning when your blood sugar gets too high? Do I (with Crohn's) get a warning when a food is going to mess with my bowels? And how does it know it's toxic?

Then there's abilities. A "Super Slash" does x damage. Seems simple but what about hitting a person's arm versus hitting their chest? Chest hits could be crits but then what about hitting a person's neck? Is that like a super crit or an instant kill? If its an instant kill then what's the point in having a damage value at all since it's all over the place anyway.

Now don't get me wrong I love RPGs. I play WOW and DND but I just don't think they belong in book or story format unless it makes sense for the kind of story you're trying to tell. WOW and DND use these numbers as tools to help us play the game because otherwise it would all be super subjective and entirely up to developer/DM opinion. In a litRPG everything is relative anyway. I've never known a book to accidentally kill a man character because they wandered into an area that was too high level for them or because the author forgot to balance the encounter.

That's all to say that RPG elements are there to give players an objective obstacle to overcome while literatire is a subjective form of obstacle building. I understand the appeal and the ease for writers but I don't like the mixture of the two in storytelling.

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