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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 9370936" data-attributes="member: 177">Hm.&nbsp; I ran two games this weekend (one-shots at a house con) that both have some level of asymmetry.One was Old Gods of Appalachia - which is based in the Cypher System.&nbsp; And in Cypher there's some very obvious asymmetry, in that the GM doesn't roll dice.And Cypher has rather the same sort of differences as you mention in that hypothetical.&nbsp; The player has a character with three stats, a pool of points to spend for each of those stats, a bunch of skills/inabilities that can make rolls easier or harder, and a list of special abilities...Meanwhile, an NPC/monster can be one number denoting its Rank.&nbsp; If it is getting used in combat, it may have a number of hit points and a number for damage it deals, and that's it.&nbsp; I may also have a couple simple special abilities.&nbsp; But, broadly, all the complication is player side.&nbsp; It is remarkably simple for the GM.The other system I ran was Deathmatch Island.&nbsp; To talk about it deeply would then include a discussion of &quot;what are 'rules' in this context?&quot;Deathmatch Island doesn't have &quot;task resolution&quot;, because it doesn't deal in individual tasks.&nbsp; Its basic conflict resolution is pretty simple:&nbsp; The GM states the situation.&nbsp; The players, mostly as a group, decides on their goal and approach for the overall conflict, not for individual actions.&nbsp; The GM rolls a die or two that generate a target number.&nbsp; The players roll a few dice, and add the highest two trying to beat that target number. The players then narrate, from worst failure up through best success, what happened.But, above and beyond the conflict resolution, the GM has a whole lot of process they work through to determine what happens next.&nbsp; In a campaign you're going through three islands, each island has two phases, the second phase has three stages, and there's some items to manage between islands.&nbsp; So, on the player side, things are pretty simple, but I was having to flip through lots of papers on my side.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 9370936, member: 177"] Hm. I ran two games this weekend (one-shots at a house con) that both have some level of asymmetry. One was [I][B]Old Gods of Appalachia[/B][/I] - which is based in the [I][B]Cypher System[/B][/I]. And in Cypher there's some very obvious asymmetry, in that the GM doesn't roll dice. And Cypher has rather the same sort of differences as you mention in that hypothetical. The player has a character with three stats, a pool of points to spend for each of those stats, a bunch of skills/inabilities that can make rolls easier or harder, and a list of special abilities... Meanwhile, an NPC/monster can be one number denoting its Rank. If it is getting used in combat, it may have a number of hit points and a number for damage it deals, and that's it. I may also have a couple simple special abilities. But, broadly, all the complication is player side. It is remarkably simple for the GM. The other system I ran was [B][I]Deathmatch Island[/I][/B]. To talk about it deeply would then include a discussion of "what are 'rules' in this context?" Deathmatch Island doesn't have "task resolution", because it doesn't deal in individual tasks. Its basic conflict resolution is pretty simple: The GM states the situation. The players, mostly as a group, decides on their goal and approach for the overall conflict, not for individual actions. The GM rolls a die or two that generate a target number. The players roll a few dice, and add the highest two trying to beat that target number. The players then narrate, from worst failure up through best success, what happened. But, above and beyond the conflict resolution, the GM has a whole lot of process they work through to determine what happens next. In a campaign you're going through three islands, each island has two phases, the second phase has three stages, and there's some items to manage between islands. So, on the player side, things are pretty simple, but I was having to flip through lots of papers on my side. [/QUOTE]

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