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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jeysie" data-source="post: 4025766" data-attributes="member: 51817">For one, I couldn't cheat even if I wanted to. I do all my roleplaying online in IRC chat. Our player character sheets are all online (so no cheating there), and we have an in-channel dice macro and an "all dice rolls in the open" policy (so no cheating there either).For two, it's simply pointless and dishonest. If I'm not going to accept the dice falling where they may, then I might as well go play freeform where I have control over what I do and don't succeed at. Part of the fun of D&D is the uncertainty of it all... as well as having enough ingenuity to plan a strategy to try to mitigate said uncertainty where it's really crucial.In fact, I'm actually currently playing in a campaign where all of the PCs have special Chaotic abilities based entirely on random dice rolls. So far it's been extremely entertaining to marvel at how completely serendipitous/synchronous our results are sometimes... and to snicker at how completely incongruous they are sometimes.</blockquote>