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    EXP, Skill, Stats and Leveling

    I don't think total levels give stats in most of these systems. They don't describe death penalties very much, but I imagine it's stops before losing a level or something.
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    EXP, Skill, Stats and Leveling

    If you switch your skills out for a completely different weapon/element/etc, you don't carry over much from the old loadouts. Depending on the system, evolving your skills to advanced versions also drops your stats but increases level caps.
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    Brute force Vs. Strategy Vs. Protagonist correction

    I'm surprised protagonist correction is so low, considering how many popular novels rely on that while claiming to use strategy.
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    EXP, Skill, Stats and Leveling

    I really like systems like OSO, where base stats are semi-hidden properties from equipped skills/classes. You raise stats by improving the related skills, but if you start from scratch you take a power loss. You can theoretically minmax for certain builds, but then you reduce the number of...
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    How much money before you turn full-time?

    1k/month would have me take the job seriously enough to crunch the numbers and see what it takes to put out something twice a week. But in terms of making a difference in the world, I'd aim much higher, across more genres or cultural/educational influence. Even then I wouldn't quit my main job...
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    I like my genre but you don’t

    My favorite genre is "Balanced and fun mechanics", so I don't see much either.
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    Unpopular opinion (or maybe not): The grammar and cover don’t matter.

    I'm rather confused here, and I don't know if the issue is with the reddit thread or you all. Story, Writing, and Grammar are 3 different things. Kingdom Hearts has an awful story and subpar grammar, but it's huge because the writing captures some serious emotions and action. Plenty of...
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    Alchemy?

    Strictly speaking, Alchemy is chemistry before we figured out the periodic table. It attempts to use various elemental systems to describe material phenomena, and "potions" are just as much alchemy as cooking is technically chemistry. What we use for alchemy in fiction is not too different from...
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    City Building Dream Team

    Anyone with earth magic will do, they're just going to get used like a black company slave. Logistics come after that, someone with sensor magic/technology that can rig up citywide networks. A jedi might surprisingly be suited for this port. A concrete/Steel/titanium mass producer would be...
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    The Adventum Contest

    Maybe I should give it a shot. More drabble of various magitek than a real story, though.
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    looking for vrmmorpg novel

    search toast
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    looking for vrmmorpg novel

    there's the one about toast
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    Arclight Online; Artwork and Discussion

    MMOs, huh? I never got that far in any. I died tons of times in Ragnarok Online and ended up as a lvl 50 swordsman tourist running around everywhere to see the sights(and die). I still hold RO as having art on the higher end of the spectrum: they did a lot with relatively little. Tree of Savior...
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    Resolved Review Formatting

    My formatting got removed when I typed out a review. Was typing in the review window. After submission, all the linebreaks were gone. Editing the linebreaks back in fixed the entry, but the bug remains. About the only unusual thing I can say about what I entered is that there was a double...
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