Politically Incorrect Games has purchased the rights to the classic Story Engine game, and rereleased for purchase as a PDF. In many ways, the game is a spiritual relative to PIGames’s diceless title Active Exploits. Playing off that, author Brett Bernstein posted some suggested rules for mixing Active Exploits and Story Engine to the AE mailing list.
…and yet Norbert posted a very helpful PDF at StoryGames: Theatrix Action Resolution Flowchart. Theatrix was an roleplaying game that relied very heavily on story structure and diceless resolution of conflicts that was somewhere between “Karma” and “Drama”. Later in the thread, be provides some helpful clarification of terms.
Check it out! You’ll probably find it useful regardless of what game you’re playing.
Self-promotionally yours: my review of Active Exploits Take 2, a diceless roleplaying system from Politically Incorrect Games.