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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Maxperson" data-source="post: 9397429" data-attributes="member: 23751">I've said in this thread that it's once every 1-2 years of real time for me.  That's playing one 4-6 hour session a week.  And I've said that I only do it to balance out extreme bad luck with player die rolls COMBINED with extreme good luck on my part. About once every campaign or two, and they last a year or so each, there will be an encounter where none of the players is rolling above a 10, missing like crazy, while at the same time I'm rolling very high, including lots of critical hits. I'm not going to TPK a group that has done everything right and is just have some extreme bad luck.  What I do is fudge a small bit to balance things out.  They can still lose, but it won't be because of extreme bad die rolling luck.Is it around 1 in a 1,000,000? No. Is it around 1 in 10,000?  Yes. Perhaps even more than 10,000 given the number of rolls that occur in a combat. So at least 99.99% of the time my rolls are adhered to.With player rolls I will sometimes ignore a roll if during the roll of the die or right afterward I decide that I shouldn't have called for a roll.  When I do that, though, the players are always aware of it since I say something to the effect of, "Never mind the roll.  X happens anyway. I shouldn't have asked for the roll."</blockquote>