quick question about litrpg genre

[Tentacult1664]

What exactly qualifies as a LITRPG. I understand its the genre for VRMMOs like Ready Player One, Overgeared, Sword Art Online, etc, but what about Isekai with RPG elements and System novels where some magical system pops out of the author's ass and helps out the main character become stronger? Do they count as LITRPG?

 

[Cipiteca396]

Rather, stories like the ones you mentioned where the characters enter a game are GameLit.

LitRPG only refers to stories where the world itself has RPG elements.

There can be some overlap.

 

[Tempokai]

LitRPG is the RPG you want to play so badly, you write a literature that based on it. Hence, literature RPG. With all those DND stuff, with a sprinkle of whatever genre you've writing at. I would've put the VRMMORPG games that have been written as LitRPG, because they don't exist. If you write something about Fortnite or whatever game, it's a GameLit. Like a Matagi Gunner for example, I recommend it.

 

[M.G.Driver]

 

[Ssthat]

the literature version of an RPG, but you aren't playing

 

[Representing_Tromba]

Imagine if someone played a videogame and then described it to you. By a technicality, Jumanji is a litrpg.

 

[Deleted member 84247]

Imagine if someone played a videogame and then described it to you. By a technicality, Jumanji is a litrpg.

There also that one space movie board game

 

[Representing_Tromba]

There also that one space movie board game

Zuthora?

 

[Soraza]

damn... key memory unlocked

 

[TheEldritchGod]

Depends. Technically HKN is a LitRPG, but I don't ever refer to the stats. I use them off camera for personal reference, but they don't exist in the universe, even if the physics reveals it.

Did you know that if you calculate pi for a square it is 4?
The more sides you give an object, the closer and closer it gets to 3.14~
So if you fight combat on a grid, spheres become rather STRANGE.

My point is, I feel a real LitRPG is a story where the game mechanics are PART OF THE STORY. Not just stats because, that really is the basic bitch of LitRPG. A real LitRPG is about rules abuse. How to MinMax your character. How to abuse the system. I forget the name, but there was this great LitRPG where the guy wound up in the game and went, "FUCK." Then immediately went about abusing the game.

He went to the local church, went into the confessional, then started walking into a wall. Why? To level his stealth.
He went into a dungeon, fought to the end, then ignored the boss encounter. Why? The drop sucked. But this Candle outside the Boss Room? It was alive. A bit of a joke really. But it had ten thousand Hitpoints and massive damage reduction.

So he proceeded to spend hours chopping it free from the wall. Then he took it home, let it heal, and went back to chopping it, every Single DAY. Why? So he could speed level his melee score.

THAT is LitRPG. Where the Rules of the Game are a character in your story.