Quote Originally Posted by Easy e View Post
As long as the Process gets the appropriate Result, does the actual mechanics of the process matter? Does it matter is you roll dice, flip cards, push Jenga blocks, flip a coin, consult a chart, use an equation, etc?

In short, do mechanics actually matter?

I look forward to a lot of interesting replies.
Yes. In bad games, resolving one round of combat takes an hour. In good games, a whole fight takes a couple minutes, and most of that time is spent describing the cool **** that's happening instead of adding up thirty four separate modifiers. And this is entirely up to the mechanics.