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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Philip" data-source="post: 1566925" data-attributes="member: 10993">I strongly dislike this kind of DM behaviour. It invites metagaming. I happen to have a wizard fascinated with spells like polymorph, baleful polymorph and flesh to stone. He even casts it against opponents with high Fort saves just because he thinks their 'cool' spells (low Wis).I repeatedly casted these spells against BBEG's, but they ALWAYS made their saves. This was suspicious, especially if the BBEG's were wizards or others with low Fort saves. When I asked the DM about this out-of-game he admitted he fudged the rolls so that the BBEG's would not be disabled in the first few rounds of combat.I explained to him that to me that meant: 'don't cast Baleful Polymorph, Stone to Flesh or whatever at the BBEG in the beginning of combat, because they will never work anyway. Just stick with magic missiles, fireballs etc.'I like the game because it offers me a freedom of choice. Battles are not exciting because I don't know how they will go, not because it takes several rounds to take down the BBEG.This kind of fudging comes down to railroading, and nothing worse in a role-playing game than railroading, I would say.</blockquote>