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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9396399" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Not at all.The fact that any roll can be treated so is what does it.But it is always the case that every roll has absolutely no force to it. Only the DM has force. The procedures--dice, rules, rulings, whatever--do not have force. At all. Period. They exist, they have value, they do anything at all solely and specifically because the DM elected to go along with them this time. Nothing, nothing whatever, prevents them from not doing so, at any point, for any reason.Hence: the rules aren't even suggestions. They contain no force, not even the force of "we'd like to see this, please?"Nope!Instead, you work within the rules to address that problem. Fudging doesn't actually SOLVE the problem. It pretends the problem doesn't exist--and actively deceives the players to preserve the hollow pretense that no problems ever occur. That's why I can't stand it.</blockquote>