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I don't really think this is true. I do think you have some good points, but look at your example. The PC's just assumed the guy was the good guy and did his bidding. Let's say the PC's are of a suspicious nature and did some investigation to find if the NPC was trustworthy. If you generated...

The thing is that you have sooo many other ways of cutting an encounter short that doesn't rely on fudging. You can for instance have the monster flee or surrender, or have a dragon allied with the monsters appear and then the PC's might fly. You can also just sum up the encounter like you do...

I mainly use published adventures so I don't have to come up with everything myself. I am not that kind of creative. Running a published adventure, I basically have two ways of running it: a) as written. b) de-constructed and remade. Option a) is obviously the least work. It generally isn't...

No, Diablo 2 :)

Some good points here, and were you write that you think my assumption is incorrect, I think you are right. I do think that if you are in a situation where you want to end a combat, the way isn't to fudge, but to just say something in the lines of: "And then you mop up the remaining forces". I...

You are criticism is valid, my statements where hyperbolic ;)

I think that if you have to fudge so little that it can't ever be detected, there is a good chance you don't need to fudge at all. Remember, you only have to be noticed once while fudging, to make all your actions suspect. I don't like pen and paper rpg games where the story is something the DM...

This is not at all what I am saying. What I am saying is that I am trying to let the PCs actions really affect the game, even if it's not going where I planned. It isn't about cheating, but letting the game have in-game consequences. If I have messed up an encounter and haven't given good...

I don't fudge dice. Mostly because I roll in the open. I quite often WANT to fudge the dice, mostly because I don't want to kill a character. Not only am I rolling in the open, but I keep the sheet with the monster hp in the open as well. Keeps me from cheating there too. Now, I do think my...

Usually, I don't like mega-adventures/adventure paths, but this one actually looks to be good enough to buy/run anyway. I ran Red Hand of Doom, and it was fun.

Morrus looks like a good topic. I really like the artwork :D

I have had some weird sessions with very few players/characters. One of those session only had two players, one playing a sorcerer and the other a rogue. This showcased the flexibility of the sorcerer, as the player could use metamagic to cast his sleep spell silently after the rogue had scouted...

I did something similar in my 4e game, but with my usual dice, rolling openly in front of the players. One of the players then gave me a new dice, and I kept rolling high. Random is random and random might be rolling 20 several times in a row. ;)

I think this could have been fixed with a map with 2-3 line callouts. It's awkward having to flip back and forth between the map key and the map. Otherwise, I think they did an ok job of it. All the NPCs are basically described in 2-3 pages of text.

The amusing part is that 5e is certainly written for reading, but at the same time, it actually gets the rule system across very well. More thought could certainly be put into creating adventures that reads and runs well.

This is the reason I switched from AP to standalone adventures. In an adventure, I am just assuming that I can get a general overview of the situation and create my own adventure from it. With an AP, I can't really do that, because then it will get really hard to run the next adventure in the...

This is so true, and I can't really fault the DM when he is running a minimal-prep time AP campaign. I am playing in such a campaign now, and the character is mostly just weird behaviour due to him being brought back from the brink of death by deamons thrice due to meddling from our Warlock...

Ok, first off, cool link. My players would be fine with a no-myth type of game, and it sounds like a good way of running a game that feels far from railroady. Secondly, I was trying to more or less procedurally generate the content as the PC's acted. Usually I find this really hard and it...

I would like more short adventures. The starter set was a good length. It's adventures that are easy to expand upon, and easy to run as written. The length (approx 50 pages) was very good. Shorter adventures (32 pages) would work out fine as well. A campaign supplement in the form of a sandbox*...

If you want to create NPCs the same way that you did in 1e in 5e, can't you just ignore the rule for calculating CR? In other words, the rule in 5e just helps you get a better feal for how hard an NPC is compared to the 1e rules, where you just had to wing it. I ran an encounter in 3e which...