- ClassSystems & progression
The role a character takes in a LitRPG system (healer, summoner, mage, tank), which decides which skills they can learn. Odd or mixed classes are a common hook.
Some titles name the class outright: Azarinth Healer, Nightmare Realm Summoner and Mage Tank.
In our data: Mage Tank
- The SystemSystems & progression
The game-like force in a LitRPG world that hands out levels, stats, skills and quests, usually speaking to characters through text boxes. Some series treat it as plain rules; in others it has a personality or an agenda.
Every series tagged LitRPG in our guides has one, from Dungeon Crawler Carl to Unbound.
In our data: Dungeon Crawler Carl
- TutorialSystems & progression
An opening stage where the system teaches new arrivals its rules, often with starter quests and a deadline, before the real world or dungeon opens up. Many system apocalypse stories spend their first book here.
Hell Difficulty Tutorial traps a bus commuter, 23 fellow passengers and a corgi in a "Hell Difficulty" tutorial.