I took a cursory search to see if anyone asked this in the forums anywhere near recently and didn't see it, so apologies in advance is my seeming common question is a necro-post.

I've been thinking lately about how sometimes the little aspects of a game are what make it enjoyable for me. For example, when I first started playing D&D as a youngling, I thought it was so cool to have the different polyhedral dice. Years later, I started exploring games like Star Wars (West End Games) & WoD Vampire that introduced me to dice pools, which rocked my boat and made me feel epic rolling fists full of dice (aside from the annoying times some would roll off the table). Since then, I've come across and enjoyed so many other resolutions mechanics. Makes sense to have different formats to fit the styles of play & the game's feel.

1) What's your favorite flavor of resolution & why? I'm not considering roll modifiers yet in the decision criteria, but maybe you do. I know there are probably several formats I'm missing, but some examples include:

flat percentages
-- single die (e.g. most d20)
-- percentile dice (e.g. CoC BRP/Chaosisum, Warhammer)
-- poker deck of cards (e.g. WoD LARP post-2005, Dog Bear, Savage Worlds for initiative)
-- rock, paper, scissors (e.g. WoD LARP **pre-2005)

bell curve percentage (e.g. most dice pools, multiple draws on a deck of cards)
--dice pool of same die type against a target number (e.g. GURPS 3d6 or WoD d10s)
--preset dice pools that aggregate success/fail rolls (e.g. Fate & Fudge dF)
--dice pools with built-in narrative effects
----same die type (e.g. One Roll Engine [O.R.E.])
---- funky specialty/narrative dice (e.g. FFG's Genesys/Star Wars)
---- dynamic dice pools that aggregate success/fail rolls, where PC add 'good' dice and the GM adds 'negative' dice (e.g. Neomancer)
dice are used, but take a back seat to the narrative-driven resolution
--die type (color) is more of a story signal, e.g. Fiasco
specialty deck of cards for narrative resolution
-- tarot cards (e.g. House of Cards, Chariot)
purely narrative interaction (resolution does not rely probability) (e.g. Amber)
some sort of resource points to influence resolution instead of a die roll, card draw, etc. (e.g. FATE points for story details or compels)
the very different & eccentric
--10 candles: roll to avoid a number & burn cards (literally)
other?

2) For those dice rollers & other forms of chance, do you prefer a

more simple, pass-the-post target number for resolution success (e.g D&D) or
the more complex how-far-past-the-post degree of resolution success (e.g. Dungeon World, WoD, Savage Worlds, FATE)?

3) If you're a dice person above, do you prefer die roll mechanics with an extra bit of resolution flair?

roll again/exploding dice (e.g. Savage Worlds, WoD, Rolemaster),
natural roll has critical high/low (e.g. D&D),
roll more than 1 but take the better/worse roll (e.g. Savage Worlds wild die, D&D 5e 2d20 advantage/disadvantage)
some sort of resource points to influence resolution instead of a die roll, card draw, etc. (e.g. FATE points for invoking aspects +2 or reroll; Savage Worlds Bennies to reroll)
dice pool, take highest number rolled and +1 for each additional role of that highest number (e.g. Age Past's elegant 10 system)
other?

p.s. I still love different dice types and collecting fairly useless ones like d30--think I've only used it twice for a table with 30 items. 🤣