>>24487916
I think there's also some Brandon Sanderson Thought going on where power/magic systems are now heavily expected to be a big part of narrative problem-solving whereas I'm quite happy to use it mostly for characterisation.
Alas, I'm still writing for the RR crowd so there'll be some amount of writing to market/buying in/selling out etc etc and I'm not sacrificing *that* much of my vision by adding some Systems© to the martial arts.

>>24487957
I can see a soft system working with gentler progfan but always assumed litrpg comes with stats and crunch ("hardness") as standard