Hi, it's me, I love stats.

The feeling of a silky-smooth system well-integrated into the site skin; the on-demand transparency of what every character can do; the challenge of creativity within equal opportunity bounds; the unpredictable and often meme-worthy moments that arise from hard work and luck.

When I'm not too involved in RP, as I have been for a while now, statless is fine. But it feels like the mediocre option where everyone plays nice and everything is planned and I never feel particularly surprised by an outcome. All my best memories are from roleplays where betrayal is possible, failure sits in the back of your mind and your actions change to be accordingly risk-calculating, combat can occur with very real stakes, and results are a truth that you have to adapt around rather than try to block from ever happening.

But if I'm not too invested, then it's fine if someone pulls something out of left field that was not mentioned whatsoever in their statless power app. As they say, 'yolo'.

im usually a stats hater but after examining my feelings i think the problem is that stats require way more testing than most admins think they do (and like i get it you don't want to be doing 50 years of QA testing and no rp)

but a clunky system with no apparent narrative benefit just makes it feel like i'm doing pointless math work. i feel like i would hate it less if there were fully automated tracking/math systems