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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8135381" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!Pretty much...which is why when I roll something that I really don't want to have happen, I tell the Players...DM (Me): "Hmmm...wow. Er... Ancient Red dragon. That was...unexpected. Like, 1 in several hundred chance, but you ARE in the Hellfunaces"Players: "[ expletive utterance]"!DM: "How about I re-roll that?..."Players: "Yeah. Yeah...I think that would be nice. I don't want to roll up a new PC, thanks"<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />So I guess you could call this "fudging with permission". That I have no problem at all with. After all, RPG's are a group activity, right? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />EDIT: And just for clarification, I would say 8/10 times my players would say "Nope. Keep what you roll. Lets do this!". They usually die, or several of them, but sometimes they win. Let me tell you, in those sessions, the excitement level is somewhere near lunar orbit! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> For example, 5 PC's, in a swamp, PC's all level 1 to 3. Encounter a 5 headed Hydra (CR 8 I believe). They stuck with the roll. Battle ensued. After some good tactics, LUCKY rolls, ample use of terrain and flasks of oil and Flame Dart, and some absolutely HEROIC poo from the Goliath Barbarian... a dead hydra. Beat up PC's, almost dead, equipment messed up, out of spells, but H E Double-Hockey-Sticks if'n that wasn't an EPIC battle! Oh, and yes, it was a "random encounter", fyi. If I had 'fudged' the dice and made it something lesser, well, we wouldn't have had that epic, memorable battle. That is where RPG's and the randomness of dice REALLY shine. Shame to remove that under the excuse of "fuding the dice to be fair". <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

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