Procedures are central to the Old School Reneissance (OSR) Culture of Play (only Adventures are more central according to the OSR Onion). Historically, fantasy TTRPGs had a heavy focus on Dungeons, so it's only natural that the procedures for bringing them to life are the most robust.
These procedures are things like:
These 🌱 Procedures act like enzymes, since they are essentially constraints, and 🌱 Constraints foster vivacity.
At least in most Systems, 🌱 Overworld exploration is more deeply abstracted than dungeon crawling though.