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That was the point I was trying to make. That Mearls writing the one thing was not in support of never fudging and that writing where it can be used as DM tool was not support that you had to have fudging in your game. The designers have made a point of acknowledging the mistake they made with...

I asked my players about this and every one of them said they have no issue with me changing monster hit points and they don't see it as unfair because I am the DM and they trust me. They view it as no different than my changing how monsters work or any of the decisions I make when it comes to...

No that is not what he is saying if it was then he would not have written in the DMG that DMs have the power to change dice rolls. He would ave written that under no circumstances should a DM ever change a dice roll. I can't believe you can't understand this. Even DMs who don't change dice...

I always have motivations of NPCs planned ahead but I have been known to change them when the game actually starts due to many things. This time was due to the situation the PCs were in and since they had never met him I could do this and now I am going to use him again. He didn't even have a...

In 3E feats became a part of the game and their purpose was to allow legal breaking of the rules. In my game we use action points that allow a player to reroll a failed roll. One of the DMs is my group only allows NPCs who have names who are the BBEG to have crits so the majority of combat...

I have written this before and I will write it again. I suffered a traumatic brain injury and suffer from a form of aphasia when it comes to communicating especially in the written form. It is worse when I am tired or under stress and I often find it stressful when I can't because of my...

But in poker you are not lying you are bluffing yes it is semantics but people choice of words reveal a great deal about how the feel about something. I have said over and over that it is a play style choice I have put no emotional judgement on it. But I have noticed that there are people who...

I respect that people play the game differently. I understand that some people don't like fudging. But to label it cheating when it does not fit the definition of cheating is not only offensive it is putting DMs who use it in a bad light because the word cheating is loaded with very negative...

First of all I see the same disconnect here that some how posters against fudging assume it is used to screw players over. There is a world of difference between shaving some hit points off a monster to wrap up a combat that is reasonably over so you move the game along that it is called pacing...

Oh for heavens sake I think we have beaten that dead horse to death raised it and beat it to death over and over again. I have never said that you should hide from your players that you reserve the right to fudge if you believe it will benefit the game. I have always stated that players and DMs...

Usually people are more than one but the point is to identify what he calls players emotional kicks to help design encounters that gives each player a chance to scratch their gaming itch. For example I am mainly a storyteller with a dash of method actor and butt kicker thrown in. I would...

I have a question those of you adamantly opposed to ever fudging where do you fall on the player type according to Robin's Rules of Good game mastering? As a player are you more of power gamer or tactitrcan as opposed to a method actor or story teller? The reason I am asking this is because I...

I have to wonder if those of you insisting on using the word cheating realize how offensive it is in this context. Obviously you feel that not only are we bad DMs but we are also dishonest. How can there possibly be any rational discussion when you are choosing to come at it from this point of...

This I agree with some what. Sometimes it is not that rules are bad but that they may be a bad fit for the game style being attepted.

I totally and completely disagree with this I feel being a slave to the rules is what disrupts immersion for storytellers and method actors and even casual players.

I never said it was. With no challenge why bother to play just go home and read a book about other characters. I think one problem here is that a lot of you seem to not get the fact that people have different role playing kicks. In Robins's guide to DMing he talks about this. I fall heavily...

I think his plan was to give it to one of the players with hopefully most of the charges used up. It was a costly item because it had the protection from magic missiles as well as the spell protection from arrows on it and he added protection from rays. I thought it was overpowered and said so...

What can I say it had designed a magic item that was a broach of shielding that protected from all range attacks up to 100 points.

I have noticed when ever this issue of fudging comes up there seems to be this disconnect where the people who oppose it seem to think it happens all the time. I answered yes I have changed hit die to lower on NPCs during combat and I have fudged to save a PCs life. And I firmly believe that...

I am seriously have an issue understand what you think on this. If I said went to see a SF movie and it was so boring would ask me well if you find this one SF movie why would go see another movie. 98% of the time the game is fun it why I have been playing for +30 years. But every so often the...