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Right - Dawn Treader could be fairly easily recontextualised as a series of modules chained together within a wider campaign arc, where...

Right - I had an example from another thread about this Let's say we're playing 5e and the rule is that characters can move stealthily...

"Balancing encounters a touch" by adding additional foes is exactly "spawning in" enemies. If it's being done to "balance" the...

Right - the "Lawful Good Rules Lawyer" is something I think a lot of us have heard of as a concept.

I believe 3e had a Returning property for some magic thrown weapons. In 4e, all thrown magic weapons returned to the wielder after the...

4e's disease tracks - lots more customisable and was an extensible framework for a lot of different effects

Right, and I admit to the same in that thread. It's still fudging though, even if done in favour of the characters

For precise figures, no, but unless the sample is completely unrepresentative it suggests fudging is not uncommon

We can certainly survey it - D&D 5E (2014) - DMs, how do you fudge? This seems to suggest that a good portion of GMs will admit to...

Right, which is why suggestions of "cheating" or "get-out-of-jail-free cards" is irrelevant to this discussion. Something done...

Surely this only makes sense as a concern in terms of challenge base play? All play changes the narrative and the current state of the...

The script used by the builders of Moria is explicitly called runic in the text. The Book of Marzabul is written in at least two...

And we pretend these falsehoods are true, for the time we pretend to spend in that world. Otherwise there would be no reason to suspend...

Or the visitor was a long time ago and was writing in something readable for their time. Or the original builders put the map in place...

That our fictional worlds exist, that we have characters that inhabit them?