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<blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8155744" data-attributes="member: 42582">Is a D&amp;D GM at liberty, in determining the result of a declared action I attack the Orc, to disregard the result of the player's rolls plus modifiers, to disregard his/her prior notes about the Orc's AC and hit points, and to just decide what happens?As my previous post probably makes clear, my view is that such a claim is highly controversial. The rulebooks strongly imply the opposite, by setting out (i) a process for resolving combat which at no point mentions such a role for the GM, and (ii) containing page after page of monsters and NPCs listed with ACs and hit points with no suggestion that that information is not to be treated in the way the combat rules suggest it should be.Hence why discussions of such GM practices take place under labels like &quot;fudging&quot;. Ie they are departures from the stated and implied rules of the game.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pemerton, post: 8155744, member: 42582"] Is a D&D GM at liberty, in determining the result of a declared action [I]I attack the Orc[/I], to disregard the result of the player's rolls plus modifiers, to disregard his/her prior notes about the Orc's AC and hit points, and to just decide what happens? As my previous post probably makes clear, my view is that such a claim is highly controversial. The rulebooks strongly imply the opposite, by setting out (i) a process for resolving combat which at no point mentions such a role for the GM, and (ii) containing page after page of monsters and NPCs listed with ACs and hit points with no suggestion that that information is not to be treated in the way the combat rules suggest it should be. Hence why discussions of such GM practices take place under labels like "fudging". Ie they are departures from the stated and implied rules of the game. [/QUOTE]

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