Your Favorite Resolution Systems

[Tanarii]

I'd actually love to see a system where there were 2 parallel resolutions systems.

One simple one for combat and other situations where success is measured as the combination of many actions each with its own resolution check, basically either d20 or d100 plus simple and not often changing mods vs fairly straightforward TN.

One complex system, preferably bell curve based, that strongly reflected character(s) skill and lots of fiddly modifiers, for times when a whole host of player decisions is ending up being abstracted into a single roll for success. Also with degrees of failure and degrees of success.

To compare, something like Exalted 2e or other White Wolf systems, or Shadowrun or Gurps, that tend to fall into the latter. Whereas something like D&D 5 falls into the former.

I will say that anything using dice pools I consider a big painful no-no for combat resolution. I re-discovered what I already knew in that regard while play testing Forbidden Lands, which is otherwise a gem of a game.