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<blockquote data-quote="delericho" data-source="post: 2400803" data-attributes="member: 22424">People cheat for different reasons.Some people cheat 'for the game' - they'll cheat to prevent a character from dying, or if they feel they're not being effective enough, or whatever.Some people cheat because they don't know any better - they've always cheated, or they've played with a particularly vicious DM who almost required cheating to stay alive (you know the guy - every challenge is too tough, every wish is perverted as far as possible, every paladin will fall, for no other reason than because the DM wants to see it happen. I hate that guy).Some cheat because they play D&amp;D as a kind of superhero wish-fulfilment thing - they want to play the invincible hero they can't (or daren't) be in real life.Some don't even realise they're cheating - perhaps they don't know the rules, perhaps they suck at maths, or perhaps they don't realise that you have to actually roll the dice, not merely pick it up and throw it back down again (if that makes sense - I saw one player using the 4d6-drop-lowest technique roll a 17 (6-6-5-2) followed by an 18 (6-6-5-6) followed by an 18 (6-6-3-6), without even realising he wasn't rolling correctly - I wasn't DM of that one, but now use point-buy in all my campaigns).The truth is, cheating doesn't bother me too much. I try very hard, as DM and also as player, not to cheat (at all, ever), but sometimes the temptation gets the better of me. I also try very hard to not take the game too seriously. I play with friends, and if they want to unwind by being an invincible superhero for a while, so be it. I'm certainly not going to boot them from the game (and consequently lose a friend) over such a little thing.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="delericho, post: 2400803, member: 22424"] People cheat for different reasons. Some people cheat 'for the game' - they'll cheat to prevent a character from dying, or if they feel they're not being effective enough, or whatever. Some people cheat because they don't know any better - they've always cheated, or they've played with a particularly vicious DM who almost required cheating to stay alive (you know the guy - every challenge is too tough, every wish is perverted as far as possible, every paladin will fall, for no other reason than because the DM wants to see it happen. I hate that guy). Some cheat because they play D&D as a kind of superhero wish-fulfilment thing - they want to play the invincible hero they can't (or daren't) be in real life. Some don't even realise they're cheating - perhaps they don't know the rules, perhaps they suck at maths, or perhaps they don't realise that you have to actually [I]roll[/I] the dice, not merely pick it up and throw it back down again (if that makes sense - I saw one player using the 4d6-drop-lowest technique roll a 17 (6-6-5-2) followed by an 18 (6-6-5-6) followed by an 18 (6-6-3-6), without even realising he wasn't rolling correctly - I wasn't DM of that one, but now use point-buy in all my campaigns). The truth is, cheating doesn't bother me too much. I try very hard, as DM and also as player, not to cheat (at all, ever), but sometimes the temptation gets the better of me. I also try very hard to not take the game too seriously. I play with friends, and if they want to unwind by being an invincible superhero for a while, so be it. I'm certainly not going to boot them from the game (and consequently lose a friend) over such a little thing. [/QUOTE]

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