For VtM its easy as take fist of caine and lightning strike.

Yeah you ripped someone's heart out in 3 seconds because your fast and strong, cool now you're covered in blood and a walking Masquerade breach becaise you punched through someone's ribcage The cops are on their way, second inquisition are listening in on radios, the Prince is disappointed that an elder is this careless and the sheriff is going to laugh at you as you're turning to dust because disciplines can only do so much before you fall into torpor because you're out of blood points/at max hunger.

As a DM dice are there to make noise behind the screen and raise tension. They're a psychological tool as much as they are a randomizer.

Personally I play a lot of World of Darkness games, which runs on dice pools, so if I can just keep obviously adding more and more dice to a pool, recount once or twice and roll to really sell the illusion that they may be in for something a lot bigger and scarier than they are. Or just roll a handful of dice as moments are going on, give a facial reaction and let that simmer under the surface for a while.

Do my eyes decieve me? An honest to god Mage the Ascension meme???

Point taken, but they also still had the resources and people to make that many charts.

Well Rollmaster has multiple authors/designers and the benefit of 43 years of accumulated writing and knowledge.

I was more intending Mage the Ascension but Ars Magica works too. They were both initially created by the same company

When the Order of Hermes takes design cues from the Society of Ether.

Odd, everything I'm coming across is saying broths are made from meat where stocks are primarily made from bones. Both use vegetables as part of the aromatics.