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Generally true, but it's still often worth thinking about how you could have done things better.

The general case of this appears to be pretty straight forward - we are having fun with friends, but some mistake leads to us having...

Could you give an example of one of these? I'd be very interested in a worked example of the kind of thing that handles this well

It was always my favorite Narnia story, by far.

Good insight. I never thought of it that way but yes, each of the books could quite well be thought of as different campaigns set in the...

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...