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To me it matters. If it doesn't to you, that's good. But to me it does.

But how do I know that the DM is cheating in my (the players) favor? How do I know the DM isn't cheating so they can railroad the players? How can I trust the DM to not cheat rolls during any roll? What if the fudging is during a non-combat encounter, is it okay to fudge a roll to make sure the...

But what happens if the players find out about the lie? Does it then become relevant?

Players who fudge dice are cheating and that is seen as a bad thing, or at least that is pretty much how it has always been presented to me. If it's wrong for players to fudge die rolls to get the results they desire, why should it be okay for the GM to fudge? Why is a GM fudging not cheating if...

I never fudge die rolls. The whole point of using a randomizer is to get a random result. If I don't want a random result, I just tell the players what is happening. I don't feel that it's my job as DM to "tell a good story" as the story is something that should emerge through play. I also...

Neither. Abandoned D&D completely not long after 3e came about. I think I ran two short lived campaigns with it, then that was it. I gave the books away in 2002, if I remember correctly. Since then all my gaming has been non-D&D related systems. I much prefer skill based classless systems...

Not a single dime. In fact, WotC hasn't got a penny from me since I purchased the 3e PHB, DMG, and MM in 2000.

Now my work.

Nah. We can just disagree as to what we think is going on. It's not like the world is going to end if we don't agree. What? When did I say something was impossible? Were you even reading what I wrote when you typed this?!? Anyway. As others have said, and myself as well, the PHB and DMG...

Okay. My own personal experience and many threads on many forums lead me to believe the opposite. How would we prove who's right? Hard data? As far as I know there is none and/or it would be impossible to get said data. So it's just our personal opinions. So then I guess we will simply continue...

Once long ago in my AD&D 2e days I had a party where two players had two characters each, the other two players had a single character each. That experience is what really taught me why, in order to get the experience I look for in an RPG, players absolutely must only have a single character...

All this is awesome! However, this is the outline for the GMs duties in a game that is not D&D. The books that instruct people how to play D&D say something different. If D&D was designed with a collaborative playstyle in mind, they would probably have instructions like this game does, but they...