Conflict Resolution vs. Task Resolution

In task resolution, what's at stake is the task itself. «I crack the safe!» «Why?» «Hopefully to get the dirt on the supervillain!» What's at stake is: do you crack the safe?

In conflict resolution, what's at stake is why you're doing the task. «I crack the safe!» «Why?» «Hopefully to get the dirt on the supervillain!» What's at stake is: do you get the dirt on the supervillain?

Which is important to the resolution rules: opening the safe, or getting the dirt? That's how you tell whether it's task resolution or conflict resolution.

Task resolution is succeed/fail. Conflict resolution is win/lose. You can succeed but lose, fail but win.

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Whether you roll for each flash of the blade or only for the whole fight is a whole nother issue: scale, not task vs. conflict. This is sometimes confusing for people; you say «conflict resolution» and they think you mean «resolve the whole scene with one roll.» No, actually you can conflict-resolve a single blow, or task-resolve the whole fight in one roll