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So much this. Don't overthink it. I would look at an Elric's graphic novel to get some inspiration, for example, as I posted in the other thread.

Mmhhh.... Important mechanical sense? I don't know... The times in which descriptions of slashes/gunfight/whatever made really the difference between winning or losing, were when going freeform adjudication by the gm (me). Runner up, Dungeon World, or similar game, because you need to know...

Pacts & Blades. Pbta derivative, I guess. I remember it has an interesting way of advancement, either in pacts or blades. I've heard some clunky mechanic to determine damage, though

Hell, yeah!!

...and a graphic novel: Elric and the dreaming city The other side of S&S: Protagonists that conjure dark magic from pacts with obscure patrons risking sanity if not life, magical cursed swords with an ego, a haunting past of long gone empires, lovers and friends sacrificed on the road to...

I am definitely intrigued and would love to read more about your conversion work

Just chiming in to say that on Dfudge the chance is 33% of complication, nada, or boon. To me is especially useful when assessing 1 and 20, so a 1 with a plus on Dfudge is still a botch, but either Dm is lenient in describing, or Player comes up with something to alleviate the failure...

Yeah. Keep in mind that it can be all optional. I mean, with maneuvers and criticals it does its job. Boons/drawbacks: only when Gm/player feel like it and if fiction allows it. We started at level 6 B/X where everyone has a +2 to hit, so I went for the extra fudge die to roll for basically...

I take a + (plus) like positive/better/bonus/success; a - (minus) like negative/worse/malus/fail, self evident for the table in every case. I also allow, actually foster, Players to come up with stuff/manouvers/boons even after rolling it, even passing it to another Pc

Might be the right time for me to play BW, after generating characters over the years, without running any game with them. I wonder what @pemerton would comment on this condensed hack of BW.

In my OSE game, I add a Dfudge to D20 rolls, to indicate magnitude of criticals/botches, if maneuvers (deeds ala DCCRPG) are performed well in combat, casting spells, complications, drawbacks, boons and the like

Suddenly came to my mind that in B/X the "social combat" happens when you beat an intelligent creature to 0 hp, having declared in advance you're not attacking to kill, but to tame. Just a thought. Kinda funny, thinking about uncollaborative npcs...

To me, the old paragon is Trollbabe rpg. "Social" is one of the three stats/pillars. Number of successes needed ranges from 1 to 3; whoever declares Conflict, sets it and the opponent (Gm, or Player) can scale it up/down one notch. So there is a fast & mechanical negotiation between Gm and...

Anyway, thanks for partecipating in and fostering the discussion

(What game are you playing?)

Death-save halts an exalted wizard

This is what I have done for my current OSR mini-campaign, even if not much of a fairytale ATM, but I wanted demi-humans to be their own thing to discover during play.

I had to address the OP question recently at my table. The druid ended up alone in a scene, and wanted to cast one spell after another. The first one was pretty straightforward in its intent, but then I was not sure what it was about. Also I want to foster pemertonian action dec. at least...

Now is crystal clear. Also @AbdulAlhazred thank you. I guess that's why I organically push the game towards a more dramatic mode, starting with the npc/monster I bring to the table (the pc don't have much as background kickers or anything) trying to foster hard choices, or at least the notion...

Kind of an hybrid, I'm using. The initial mission, the survival mode are there, but we are also exploring needs/personality of characters, as they arise, and I put forward my view on the backstory and the magical means of the dead archmage. From your past threads and posts: I use scene...