Solving for Y in LitRPG

There are a few ways I could have written a book about living in video games.  I knew that was the story I wanted to write but I wasn't sure how to make that happen.  Of course, I've read other LitRPG books.  I love them.  But I didn't want to just write another one.  I wanted to add a fresh spin onto the story.  Instead of letting Radley get stuck in a game I brought the game to the real world.  I wrote the prologue first.  Then I rewrote it about a hundred times until I loved it.   I wanted to read the story the prologue was setting up.  Then I just had to write the story.  I liked the the possibilities a world like that created and that made the story easy to write.

To be honest, the hardest part of writing this book was keeping track of all the stats.  I eventually turned to math for the answer.  As a scientist in real life it made the problem easy.  I made equations for everything, from HP to Damage rolls.  If Radley checks his max health at level 15, I enter his level and constitution into the equation and it spits out the value.