In short, the power system is the pretentious point in a book, also known as the refreshing point. After all, with characters and plots, it is not easy to create refreshing points. Only when the protagonist relies on some ability beyond ordinary people and step on someone in the face, he will feel refreshed.

It can be seen that the protagonist has the power to show off because he has mastered a certain special ability, so he created many exciting points. Of course, sometimes the protagonist's unique personality and special contradictions also constitute exciting points, but these are not within the scope of this post. Most of the exciting points in online novels are derived from the power system.

Next, we try to classify the elements of the power system and give examples to prove it, and see if all the categories and themes of online novels can be classified under this concept?

1. The source of strength;

It is very common for different subjects due to different sources of power.

For example, in rebirth novels, the protagonist's greatest power comes from his previous life's experience. Because he has mastered a lot of knowledge and experience that people around him do not have, he takes the lead everywhere and has the ability to predict the future.

Time travel novels also use the same principle, but they are slightly different from rebirth, because rebirth is still in the same background of power. For example, the rebirth of fairy tale still follows the background of the power of fairy tale. However, the protagonist has richer experience and more profound knowledge, can master the direction of the world and seize the initiative; but the time travel is from modern time travel to ancient times, or from scientific and technological society to the world of fairy tale. In addition to knowledge and experience, the source of power here is different from the cognition of two power systems. Generally, advanced power systems are used to show off by lagging backward power background. For example, using hot weapons knowledge to show off by the cold weapon era, the protagonist takes an AK47 to knock down a team of cavalry, or uses Zerg base to destroy the world of immortal cultivation.

In Debao novels, this type of protagonist neither travels through time nor rebirth, but obtains some awesome magic weapon, such as Han Li's small bottle, which has the ability to ripen the immortal grass. This ability is far beyond the actual level of others. It is equivalent to a person's scientific and technological level suddenly evolving to a level three base, while others are still a level one base. However, in order to avoid the collapse of the power system, the function of this magic weapon is generally limited to one type, and it is impossible to fully improve the protagonist's abilities. The protagonist still has great shortcomings. How to make up for it depends on this magic weapon.

There are many creative ideas for Debao, including those who improve the speed of cultivation, those who improve the resources of cultivation, and those who improve various practical abilities. There are many combinations.

2. Types of power;

a. Knowledge (historical time travel novels, the protagonist masters modern technology);

b. Experience category (rebirth novel, taking the lead in the enemy, and accelerating cultivation);

c. Qualification category (certain talents are very high, such as high mental power, high understanding, high magical cultivation, and useless novels to play this card more);

The three categories of abc are all soft power. The protagonist cannot directly become real strength after mastering them, and needs to be transformed. Among them, the transformation of soft power into hard power reflects the protagonist's wisdom, courage and luck. It is also one of the good things about a novel. The great masters are very good at handling the elements of soft power. Newcomers often cannot write well. Everyone can consciously accumulate processing skills in this area and see how the great masters do it.

d. Physical arts (body refining is mainly to improve the physical ability, reflected in strength, speed, defense, etc.)

e. Spells (Western fantasy is the seven elements of magic, such as light, dark, fire, water, wind, earth and thunder; Dongxuan is the power of the five elements, gold, wood, water, fire and earth)

f. Spiritual category (Western fantasy is spiritual power, Dongxuan is the soul, divine thought)

Defs are both hard power and can be used directly to fight. Generally, they need to be practiced to improve. The thing to note here is that hard power is used directly to combat, so how to balance between categories is a science. For example, a warrior in a physical system fights with a magician mage in a magic system. Who is more powerful? It needs to be followed by a set of settings, which has the requirements of realm or level.

There are also some variants, such as soul power, star power, sea of ​​suffering, etc. In fact, these things are carefully distinguished and finally manifested in the three aspects of physical art, spell and spirit, which should still be covered.

The above six power categories of abcdef are collectively called internal force, which means that they are directly owned by the protagonist and no one can take them away.

There is another kind of power that becomes external force, which means that although the protagonist currently has it, it will be stolen by others.

g. Magic weapons (elixirs, talismans, formations, objects)

h. Pets (incarnation, substitute, insect, monster, spirit pet, etc.)

i. Practice category (methods that can help characters improve their three types of def cultivation)

The three types of ghi have many aspects to improve the protagonist's power. They can be soft power, hard power, auxiliary power, and directly improve combat power. Remember that they all have two major characteristics.

1). Will be taken away by the enemy;

2). Requires a lot of resources to improve;

This category is also the place where readers can be most excited in a novel. Killing people and catching treasures, laying copies, refining weapons and alchemy, etc. will create many exciting points.

3. Ways to improve strength;

a. Innately obtained (soft and hard power, internal and external power can be achieved, such as experience, qualifications, a special skill, etc.)

b. Obtained the day after tomorrow (cultivation, adventure)

As long as it is a force element that can compete with the enemy, an upgrade system must be defined. Even if it is not written clearly, there must be a difference in strength.

For example, when the protagonist refines his body, he fights with the enemy with physical strength. This follows the upgrade system of the physical system. One person has 100 kilograms of strength and the other person has 200 kilograms of strength. The two fists are in the angular position, so the one with the greater strength wins. Therefore, the specific methods and methods for improving the strength must be set in detail, which is called cultivation. Otherwise, both of them have great strength. Who is more powerful? It is difficult to describe without a realm system.

If you are competing with the enemy with soft power, for example, the protagonist reborn and masters the machine gun creation method, and the enemy reborn and masters the shotgun creation method, both of them want to create first to improve the strength of their camp, so it is difficult to set any realm or upgrade the system here. You can only rely on the characters and plots to create a refreshing point. Both sides compete with wits, courage, resources and connections, and compare the plot and character control of the author.

How to create specific excitement points? You can study 36 drama models, as well as the 136 styles of pretentiousness circulating on the Internet, and then read more orthodox history or official articles.

4. The effect of power;

When you have power, how to show power and achieve the purpose of refreshingness requires setting the effect of power.

a. Gain effect (such as taking elixirs to improve cultivation or some ability)

b. Debuff effect (opposite to gain)

c. Destructive effect (the degree of direct damage to people or objects)

Many great masters have excellent fighting or wit battle scenes, which can describe the destruction effect very well, such as the damage to the environment, the landslides and the earth, the killing of people, the head and blood flow, or how many people die, and the killing of the enemy's psychology is more common in wit battles.

Depending on the type of power, the damage effect caused is also different. For example, ice magic has the effect of freezing thousands of miles, and fire magic has the effect of rage. There are many details here, so everyone should play more games and read more books, and pay attention to accumulation.

5. Power background.

This is a big topic. Even if the same power system is placed under different power backgrounds, there will be completely different pleasures.

Farming (This background focuses on business development as the main point, governing the country or strengthening the strength of a group, and there are fewer protagonists who fight directly, but rely on developing politics, economy, financial resources, army, technology and other aspects to seek excitement. It seems that the protagonist focuses on using knowledge and experience to show off, and fighting with others is also based on his younger brother to win)

Technology flow (mech, star warfare, etc. are all the themes of climbing the science and technology tree. The protagonist's cultivation method is weakened, and it relies more on technology to improve his abilities, such as injecting scientific potions, or controlling newer mechas, focusing on improving his abilities with external forces)

Fighting Stream (the protagonist participates directly in the battle, and the refreshingness of fighting with fists, feet and skills, urban superpowers, fantasy, fairy tales, etc. are all considered here. This kind of thing focuses more on personal cultivation and has strict realms and methods to improve strength. Both internal and external forces are important, and both soft and hard power are very important. It can be seen that this kind of novel is the most difficult to write, and there are too many elements that need to be controlled.)

Ambiguous female picking stream (This type actually has a system of power. How a protagonist can attract more beauties and achieve his own career depends on whether he has mastered abilities that others do not have, such as mind reading skills, such as time travel, etc.)

To put it bluntly, the background of power is equivalent to a stage. Different stages, the protagonist's excitement brings different pleasures, and the goals pursued are also different. Under the overall grasp of a principle, the protagonist's values ​​in this background of power should basically conform to the will of the people. Only when the people pursue things, the protagonist also pursues them will feel as if he stands out in a crowd, otherwise it will conflict with the background of power.

For example, in the background of historical novels, everyone is farming and making money, pursuing a career in officialdom, and the protagonist comes to practice every day and intends to become an immortal. This means not using the historical background. It is better to put it in the background of immortals.

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It seems that the theme of a book is novel or not, starting from the five aspects of the above-mentioned power system.

As long as there is breakthrough and innovation in any aspect and gives people a refreshing feeling, it will attract readers and have the possibility of success.

For example, the system flow that was first in the fire should start with the source and effect of strength, and combined with the lottery mode, it will be innovative.

Online novel settings from the Tao of Gods

As a new game, it is the first time that players are exposed to. What kind of magic is it that makes people unable to stop playing? Can the techniques in it be learned from online articles and write equally attractive works?

1. Continuously launch new features to attract players to try:

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The initial main task allows players to familiarize themselves with the game interface and story background.

(Writing is the background introduction to the beginning. It must be simple, not too cumbersome. Do the task first. I am very annoying. Some games start to consume too much time at the birthplace and there are too many NPC conversations. This is a slow fever at the beginning of the novel and cannot quickly get to the topic. When playing legends, many novices would chop chickens with wooden swords and quickly start practicing and growing. Therefore, online novels should be quickly entered, practice and adventure should be started as soon as possible, and a sense of cultivation should be established early!)

2.

Rewards for fighting monsters: money, experience, experience, materials, equipment money is used to strengthen equipment, purchase pill medicines, and wash attribute points; experience is used to improve magic; experience is used to upgrade; materials are used to synthesize equipment; equipment is used to improve the protagonist's abilities.

(These five types of adventure rewards can be found in the novel one by one. Taking mortals as an example, the protagonist kills a monster, and the demon pill can be used to sell money or medicine; fighting can allow the protagonist to comprehend magic or epiphany, which is equivalent to gaining experience and level improvement; the monster's skin and bones are all good materials, which can be sold for money and can also refine powerful equipment; and the direct acquisition of equipment is often obtained through killing people; experience is used to improve magic. In the novel, the protagonist can be arranged to absorb the target's mana, fighting spirit, special flame, fairy fruit, etc., and directly improve a certain attribute.

These five types of adventure rewards need to be interspersed and diversified to avoid boredom. Moreover, the obtained treasures are divided into three types: 1 is directly usable; 1 is temporarily unusable; 1 is not usable and can be given to others or exchanged if it is not usable.

The advantage is that you can use it directly and feel a sense of accomplishment immediately. You cannot use it for the time being and feel a sense of expectation. If you cannot use it, you will be vanity. Exchange increases complexity and form twists and turns in the novel plot)

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Strengthening, formation, magical arts, fate, friends, gangs, practice, dungeons, bosses, arenas, plantations, team battles, adventures... Various new functions are gradually displayed at an average speed of 5-10, always maintaining enough attractiveness, so that players can immediately launch the next function after they are familiar with a function. This is the rhythm of the game, and it also allows players to improve their ability to fight monsters with goals to test. This is the same as when they have worked hard to make money in reality, they have to show off in front of others, and satisfying their vanity!

(Compared with the novel, after every 1-2 level up, the protagonist needs to refer to these contents to conduct a variety of adventures. After practicing to fight monsters with an average of 10,000 to 20,000 words, a different adventure plot will be arranged.

Strengthen: Let the protagonist improve his weapons and equipment;

Formation: Let the protagonist learn secondary professions such as formation, alchemy, and weapon refining;

Fate: This is something like runes. It can provide additional attributes in terms of force, mana, critical strike, first attack, dodge, physical defense, magic defense, and strategic defense, etc., or special skills, which can improve the attributes of fate, and combine them to produce new skills, including high, medium and low-quality products. Similar things can be added in the novel and embedded on the body or weapons and equipment;

Friends and gangs: Let the protagonist fight for friendship, family and national interests, increase interaction, and give the protagonist's adventures a higher meaning;

Copy and boss: Some special adventure places similar to the novels must be difficult and cannot be easily entered. After entering, the protagonist needs to fight wits and courage. Relying on the strength of the individual or team, it is not recommended to arrange it too frequently. The average of 100,000 to 200,000 words can be arranged once;

Arena: All the fights between people are the most attractive, killing people to seize treasures, and mercenary affair, but paying attention to killing people must be just, and it is better for the other party to provoke first, killing one level, killing one side, killing one side, killing one side, killing one serially, killing one serially... combination of multiple ways is enough!

Planting: This is a selling point element of the cultivation category. For example, the protagonist has pets to feed, the sect needs to be managed, and the medicinal fields need to be managed... It is recommended that the protagonist appears in a specific period. Generally, the protagonist's environment is relatively stable and comfortable, and there is no major crisis. Moreover, the improvement of this skill must be related to the combat attributes. In other words, a farmer has a level three level of hoe to the ground, and can kill people with one hoe when fighting. It is also very powerful, which will make readers feel like they are not miscultured by practicing, and there is a unique surprise;

Team battle: This is a large-scale battle, which tests the accumulation of battlefield survival ability and merit. The novel can arrange national wars or sect-like battles. The protagonist can engage in intelligence spy, assassination, grassroots soldiers, logistics supplies, middle and senior generals, and even marshals who plan strategies;

Adventure: For some specific historical events in the game, different choices can receive different rewards. In the novel, the protagonist can be arranged to think, analyze and choose key events, so that readers can think along with it, as if they are doing personal life thinking, enhancing the purpose of the protagonist's work and enhancing the sense of substitution. Whether this choice is successful or failure, it must be summarized afterwards, in order to make a wiser choice in the future.)

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Character attributes: life, profession, force, unique skills, tricks, spells, these are the basic attributes of characters, and they can be improved or transformed through cultivation or taking pills.

(In the novel, the protagonist's life can be expressed as the ability to resist strikes. Whether it is physical attacks, magic attacks or mental attacks, the protagonist must have continuously enhanced the ability to resist strikes, and must have a rough quantification. For example, if you fight at the same level for one hour, half of your physical strength and mana, etc., you will consume all your energy and mana after two hours of combat. If you have a low cultivation level, the protagonist will not be able to withstand it. Therefore, each battle has a timeliness and a reserve of mana. It is not a limitless battle, so the protagonist must have some calculations every time he starts a war, and it is also real and interesting to fight. But remember that digitization is not an online game, and it does not require digitization;

Occupation: It is the martial arts or ability faction chosen by the protagonist, such as magicians, warriors or strategists. Each of them has a heavy ability to exercise, or has strong physical attacks, strong magic attacks, or strong support abilities, which creates differences in professions, has advantages and defects, and forms diversity in combat;

Martial power: It is the ability to cut flat. In the novel, the protagonist can enhance this attribute by refining his body, or swallowing related pills, scrubbing divine breasts, etc.;

Special skills and tricks: This is a life-saving skill. It cannot be used easily. After use, you must pay the corresponding price, or your cultivation level is temporarily reduced, or a certain attribute is reduced or invalid, or it takes a long time or medicinal materials to recover, etc. It is divided into one-hit killing, group killing, defense, escape, transformation, death, illusion, continuous damage, paralysis, fixed, critical strike combo, etc.

Spell: It is a variety of skills that require the consumption of magic power or mana release. The power of this skill depends on the purity and strength of mana, the strength of divine consciousness or mental power, the level of spell "high, medium and low" and the right time and place when released, and there is no blessing of art, etc.)

2. In addition to constantly launching new functions to arouse players' curiosity, there are also ways to pre-display high-attribute equipment, high-level martial arts skills, advanced dungeons, and high-level players, which arouse the feeling that players want to become masters or experience that way, forming a strong sense of expectation.

There are often things where a certain player is tired of a certain game, but continues to recharge and play in order to wear the ultimate equipment or become the highest-level player.

(If you want to achieve this effect in the novel, you must first clearly show it to readers. High-attribute equipment, advanced skills, dungeons, how awesome the masters are, and how huge the change will be compared with their current status. For example, the current one is a broken wooden sword and chopping chickens and ducks. As a result, the protagonist obtains a bloodthirsty demon blade. As more and more people are killed, the more powerful it is. When more than 10,000 people are killed, he can split the sky and snatch the fairy in the sky. Before killing 10,000 people, this bloodthirsty demon blade will not be more powerful than a chopping hatchet, which means that the protagonist does not have enough ability!

It is not enough to render this way, and there must be supporting characters constantly roaring around the protagonist. The son of a certain butcher has already practiced into a bloodthirsty demon blade and snatched a fairy from the nine heavens. You are more handsome than him. Are you not as good as him? The protagonist's unfair mentality must not be worse than others!
To be continued...