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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5708144" data-attributes="member: 9037">This entire social contract thing has me shaking my head. Some of you sound so rigid. I believe my role as a DM is to guide the game, provide fun challenges, and be  fair when I  adjudicate the rules.   The rules are there to facilitate play not be a rigid force that can never be bent or changed. Rules should support the fun not get in the way.Yes I gasp fudge. I do it when I see that the challenge I have made is to hard  and I can read the frustration on my players faces I will on the fly adjust it. I will sometimes do it the other way as well. Though that has happened maybe once or twice.  And yes there are times I fudge the dice to save a PC. For example one of my players lost a PC in the middle of a dungeon crawl and since it took awhile to get her raised she played monsters. She was a good sport about it but I knew she was missing her PC. Well she got raised and in a random encounter shortly after she started rolling 1 and I was rolling crits. Anyone could see how unhappy she was and that she was not having fun. So I started "missing" her more often and when I hit I did "less" damage.I have also fudged when the party has made a great plan and it goes bad because the dice start rolling bad for them  and fantastic for me. I will pull a few punches. I often make encounters up on the fly and just decide when the monster is dead or defeated. I change monster stats and abilities all the time  to keep things fresh and to surprise my players.  As a player I don't want to play with a DM who rolls in the open and is so rigid they don't care that their players are miserable as long as they slavishly follow the rules.</blockquote>

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