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Don't need a full reset. You could do what would would have done to tweak the situation anyway. My examples was that even extreme...

That's only true if you're just rerunning it with the extent setup. If I've got to roll things back, that's probably not all I'm doing.

My players prefer not seeing the man behind the curtain. :D And I don't see it as "dishonest". That's too strong of a word for me...

Sure. But there is no guarantee that stopping the encounter and then restarting it, hoping it will play better, actually results in it...

The real value of stoping the world when you are making adjustments is that if you make a habit out of that, the players will recognise...

Sure, my players would do that, certainly. They also accept that I sometimes design encounters or challenges that won't be a good fit...

I'd say technically yes, but otherwise you may have a very bland or far too difficult fight, and neither of those are really good for...

So there are a few things I would say to this. Firstly, modifiers based on choices/environmental factors are amazing. They turn combat...

So the core advantage rules were designed to create a sense of momentum in combat. Earlier editions were accused for being to whiffly -...

"Hidden Die Rolls. Hiding your die rolls keeps them mysterious and allows you to alter results if you want to. For example, you could...

The real response by me now. Fudging gives the situation a different feel than changing things out in the open does. I'm not talking...

The real question is, would you fudge to railroad your players into making their own decisions? :p :devilish:

Woot! A new tangent! When I am a player, I support the DM and if the DM feels the need to fudge to make a better game for me and the...

If I adhere to the rule of "don't roll dice when it doesn't matter," I am not even running that last round of combat. There's no risk...

generally the fudging I've seen with DM's has possibly messed up the encounter, or just had a stupidly long string of ridiculous rolls...