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Character death is something very rare in modern tabletop games, outside of some games (Warhammer Fantasy, Call of Cthulhu, most OSR games) and if you're making a game where character death is easy... Warhammer is really the only one where character creation takes a while.

There's a lot of ways to fix this, either by limited each post of a three to fix sentences, requiring people to pre-roll and pre-type in combat, do group initiative, etc.

Since this would be on downtime, if Fred Freeformer used healing magic, Dan Diceuser could easily roll the recovered hit points... Especially since it would be bad form for Frank Freeformer to be like "your character is fully healed because my magic is that powerful.

Take a d100 system. Add a zero. In something like Zwihander, if you have 65 as your score for melee, you'll hit on a role of 65 or under. If you converted, convert it to a melee score of 650.

A lot of these are fine for more granular systems like the ones you mentioned, but my baselines are built for broader narrative strokes and collaborative storytelling with risk instead of granular moment-to-moment resolution of combat.

The issue of characters wanting to do everything, at least in freeform play, is usually filtered out by the inclusion of dice at all, so I've only had one instance, in about seven years of experimenting, with a player who was salty their powers weren't a Solve Everything button. The classless nature of things just makes it easier for me to include non-combat characters who are more adept at social interactions (something these systems always incorporate), and helps me outsource the design of magic systems, which I am always too lazy to write in the exhaustive detail of D&D.

Regarding the d100, I did use a d1000=d20 on a 50/1 ratio for one system, and that works fine. Now you could just do /random 20 and there's no need for it anymore. Presently, I'm working on treating d1000 as 3d10, which opens up bell-curve probabilities and frees me from the tyranny of linearity.