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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Neonchameleon" data-source="post: 6845747" data-attributes="member: 87792">Social conflict mechanics have been the white whale of RPGs since the 1970s - and one thing that's been discovered is that the ones that actually work tend to only work for a specific social environment. For example Monsterhearts' social mechanics are amazing - for screwed up teenage monsters. Leverage has good social mechanics - if you are a team of very competent grifters. Apocalypse World if you are Hard Men in Rough Times works well. But all of them would be utterly unsuited to each others' settings.And unified resolution mechanics? They are possibly the most overrated fad in game design unless you are purposely building your game round self-simmilarity the way Fate does and is a deliberate decision about world-building. That said, it depends what you mean by unified resolution mechanics; rolling the same sort of dice isn't all it takes and that is generally a good idea so that new people at least know what to roll and don't slow the game down at that point.</blockquote>