Every tabletop RPG system I have played (which is not many, I'll

>>50903913
Blades in the Dark defines all actions under 16 "skills". You describe what you wanna do, and depending on how, a stat is chosen to roll.

The meat of resolution is based on the GM defining position (how dicey the situation is) and effect (how much damage/influence you have)

>>50905900
Seems pretty straightforward. Also it has an interesting premise. I'll check it out. Thanks!

>>50903913
Dogs in the Vineyard uses the same dramatic system if your character is trying to fight the demons trying to tell him to keep drinking, if there is a public execution, or if there is a lengthy firefight inside a mining operation hiding a brothel as a part of their general store.

>>50903913
Fate Core and Fate Accelerated both use the same resolution mechanics for combat as they do for social encounters, negotiations, stealth and so on and so forth.

>>50903913
Every game where combat skills are treated the same as non-combat skills.

Which is a lot of games.

>>50907583
Not necessarily true. Like, GURPS has the same mechanics for most skills, but when you are in combat you are suddenly taking 1 second turns instead of one roll being used for one (undetermined length) action.

>>50906233

Dogs in the Vineyard does have some extremely cool mechanics under the hood, despite on the surface being an extremely light game.

More rules light and narrative games in general go that direction, OP. Things like PbtA systems or FATE have very loose approaches to combat and mostly handle it the same way they do other things.

And then you get weird outliers, like Legends of the Wulin, where talking someone down can be accomplished using the core combat mechanics.

>>50903913
Blades in the Dark, Dogs in the Vineyard, Apocalypse World (and most hacks), Fate, Marvel Heroic Roleplaying, Maid RPG.

>>50903913
cWOD but that's one of the common complaints about it. The thing is, players want more control over their character surviving violence. That's why combat systems are usually complex. When survival isn't completely necessary, there's no need for much ado about rolling. I've designed several systems and this is always what comes up

>unifies combat with other skill checks
easy, already plenty examples in this thread
> expands normal skill checks beyond Roll + Bonus v Target
Quite hard. Thing is, most actions with uncertain outcome on't exactly need more than a single roll. It would be needless complication.

But there is a system that works kind of like it. HeroQuest 2, unwisely named in the same way as much more popular board game that kind of makes it even more obscure.
It is a narrative system, simmilar to FATE in its philosophy, but differing strongly in execution.
It solves combat exactly the same way as everything else, and while base mechanic is a single roll for everything, called Simple Contest (so combat may be solved by a single roll from every player), DM may "complicate" harder, more "dramatically important" sequences by turning it into Extended Contest, which requires several rolls representing stages of the task and turning tides, at the end glued together with a certain ruleset to calculate the final results.

So basically, a combat might be either a single roll if fighting mooks, or an extended, swingy contest if fighting a boss, but the same applies to any other skill - convincing a guard to let you speak to the king might be a single diplomacy roll, negotiating an important treaty would be Extended Contest.

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