When I say something like “I want the system to get out of my way,” I mean that I don’t want it to be so divorced from the fiction that it breaks narrative flow. “Let’s see, I have a d8 in persuasion, but we are in favor with the Griffin King, so that bumps to a 3d8, keep highest, unless 2 dice match, in which case we have a roll over and add a point into the conflict pool…”