[quote=@Randomness]
<Snipped quote by Lugubrious>

I guess keeping in theme, this game runs like a video game. The daunting part  is all the stuff the game does for you, you’re doing yourself. 
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That's fair, but there's no need to interface with systems like spirits or rapport if you don't want to, or you could ease into it. The only thing that the players really need to worry about is keeping track of their own EXP earned from writing, and writing up the new powers and such that you want whenever you get a level to spend, which hopefully shouldn't be too hard. It's typical to keep the tally of how much EXP we have in our post headers, which we update once per week.