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I don't think it's an answer of convenience. Degree is the difference between a tap and a punch, or a glass of water and a swimming pool, or an ultralight and a 747 jumbo jet. My last post had a question mark at the end because I don't know how "setting element" was used in your discussion...

Perhaps it's a matter of degree.

I treat morale like an ability check in my game. If an enemy would automatically flee or stay, no roll. It just happens. If it's in doubt, I set a DC with a flat d20 roll and if it's exceeded, the enemy doesn't run.

What unchangeable by the DM rule did the DM violate?

I never said or implied that I'm not willing to TPK the group.

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 about deception, per se. Rather, that even if all the players are on board with being saved if the dice gods come out and smite them hard, while supporting me...

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

I would not fudge that. Sometimes victory comes at great price and a last desperate attack from a dying enemy strikes true.

I think the bolded part is certainly the case. That's the only reason that I do it, which ends up happening every 1-3 years. The reason it's that rare for me is that it not only has to be really bad chain of rolls(good for me and bad for the players), but also that the players haven't made any...

Gotcha. I was reading what you said as meaning learning strategies and tactics from a different RPG and then taken into say D&D was what you were talking about.

I think they break down Elminster and Drizzt. By the end I hear that both are sobbing in their bedsheets.

I'd argue that the expectations it violates are the expectations that player choice matters and of not being forced down the DM's path, making illusionism a form of railroading.

Metaphysics means transcending what is physical or natural. Metagame means transcending the game. It's when you bring in things from outside of the game into the game. Player knowledge, hit points as a mechanic being spoken about by your PC, etc. I don't think your definition about it...

I'm not sure about that. Railroading is the DM negating player choice to make the players go the route he wants them to go. Overt or covert can be applied to how you enact that definition, but I don't think those are qualities of railroading.

Illusionism is a form of railroading and in the rare circumstances that the players agree to being railroaded, it's not a bad thing.

Yeah. And being railroaded as a term meaning forced has been around since the 1800s when train companies stole land from folks so that they could lay down track through that land. I found various examples and definitions of being railroaded, all of which were negative.

Found it! Hypergraphia: A behavioral condition characterized by an intense desire to write or draw.

Energy drain. Everyone loved energy drain. Taxes, hydrogen and energy drain are universal. :p

The Desert of Desolation series is my favorite. Even more so than the GDQ series.

We weren't talking about that. We were talking about people being okay with disparaging comments just because you say you don't intend them to be insulting. The world doesn't work that way for the vast majority of people. Yeah. That's why I've been tiptoeing around being pretty vague with my...