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I say, "No, because you want to be right about something that has no right or wrong." You retort with a statement you made earlier, "I'm neither asking nor expecting anyone to agree with me . . ." Which has nothing to do with what I said. I said right, I didn't say "persuasive". I didn't say...

Not at all. You stated a preference based on like. I asked if the opposite preference based upon like was also valid, for other people. Then you tried to get me hungry for some reason. If you think I'm automatically assuming that because you like x, you hate anti-x, no. After all, look a...

Cool, then I would have been thinking the same thing - it takes more imagination to fudge and deal with the results than to mindlessly be beholden to small geometric bits of plastic. So thanks for showing me the illogic of both extreme positions. Here's why your position is untenable. The...

No, because you want to be right about something that has no right or wrong. Your opinion of DMs and players who fudge is just as far from reality as the one I presented. So yeah, here's where I criticize your extreme opinion for being as illogical and malformed as the opposite extreme opinion.

Oh, I was - to demonstrate a point, which he rightfully called me on. Every single one of us as DMs are unique DMs, whether we fudge or don't, whether we roll in the open or not, whether we can pull off a non-annoying English accent (or Southern accent if the DM in question is English). Every...

If I may add a bit of advice to the non-fudgers, stop insisting on treating every single individual DM who does as part of a hive-mind collective when it comes to fudging. Fully 75% of the passive-aggressive or not passive-aggressive posts I've seen regarding fudging don't apply to me - the...

Out of curiosity, do you recognize that the opposite position is equally valid? "For some people, letting the dice roll with a degree of fudging is the most fun; not fudging is unfun. So the idea that a DM will not fudge for or against them to make things more fun is contradictory. It's...

And what if I professed that I believe that worshiping at the altar of Dice is imagination-stifling and it creates nothing but DMs and players who can't think on their feet, slavishly adhere to some false paragon of gaming virtue (that doesn't exist), and offers no remediation for human error...

This, for me.

Indeed, that's why some sites let you denote that your review is based upon a read-through or upon actual play. Either can be useful.

I can't see myself ever telling the players when I did or did not fudge, barring some sort of unusual situation. It's a neutral rule.

I agree, Enzeitgeist does reviews I like as well. It's interesting, because some of the reviewers I've seen mentioned are exactly the ones I don't think are very good. But hey, I think a review should be more than a table of contents with a number at the end.

I sort of think part of it was there was a lot of "new and exciting" (cough) things coming out - to be sure there was a lot of junk, but there were things coming out by the big d20 publishers, which focused things (at least here). [qoute]I found it very, very useful to read reviews here during...

I've also basically given up on them as well because the people who I remember giving great reviews here don't do so any longer and over at my other stomping grounds, a reviewer essentially does nothing more than recite the facts of the product (page count, margins, etc.) and then finishes up...

(Exploder, using your post as an example because it may serve to illustrate the disconnect betwixt the various sides - the questions below are open to anyone) Do you think everyone who fudges rolls disagrees with you? Do you think they arbitrarily change results for whim, every round of combat...

And yet I've seen it. High-level game of 3.5, maybe an hour into a session and the DM hit a PC with Plane Shift, because that PC had the highest save and just needed to roll a 1 or higher to save. A 1 later and the PC was out of the session...as was the player. The player never returned. I...

Relative to the number of times a police officer is in a position to issue a traffic ticket, how often do you think they are in a position to discharge their firearm?

Thanks. I call it fudging because the very first rule given to the players was no resurrections because of the unique nature of the WLD. Also, if I may, I think you're asking the wrong question. You are, in effect, asking police officers why they have fired or not fired their sidearm, rather...

Obviously speaking only for myself here... I have no hard and fast rules - there is no rulebook in use of when to fudge because I see every instance as unique and should be evaluated (however briefly) using my intelligence guided by experience (props if you catch that reference). I can provide...

Too bad the DM didn't know that the dice result wasn't going to be 1-7 ahead of time or didn't think the 8 result would really happen and so they didn't waste time with a slide-rule or calculator determining the optimal odds probability to assign in order to make one perfect die roll.