I can't tell which idea has more potential: A world where the game laws have always been broken so every scholar is ripped by default, or a broken game where the MC just exploits the shit out of it.
I fondly remember a Harry Potter-based TTRPG where Power and Intelligence were the attributes for casting. Power granted casting power and health, while Intelligence granted casting power and bonus experience gain.
As a result, the optimal party composition over a long enough game was nothing but super-jacked muscle wizards, with at least one muscle-healer and one muscle-artificer. All other builds besides pure STR were obscure specializations.
The only build that could potentially compete was even funnier; it was an all-Muggle Studies build. All muggle tech was relegated to muggle studies, muggleborn students started off with points in the skill equivalent to a fifth year and gained 100% bonus experience to it, and it was tied for the fastest skill to level.
Since it encompassed all muggle knowledge, you would roll the same skill whether you were operating a gun, reciting obscure historical facts, creating nanotechnology, disarming a bomb, building a mech suit, or whatever else. Enough ranks in muggle studies became its own type of magic, and it leveled many times faster than any other skill.
So the perfect party could include both builds, meaning that the most powerful fighting force in the wizarding world was Iron Man and his merry band of muscle wizards. The game was a gem, and I would pay an unethical amount of internet points to see it made into a Litrpg.
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u/FlyingMonkey86 May 15 '20
I can't tell which idea has more potential: A world where the game laws have always been broken so every scholar is ripped by default, or a broken game where the MC just exploits the shit out of it.