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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 4026363" data-attributes="member: 13703">I "cheat" from time to time as a DM.  This has normally been by reducing the amount of damage I've done to a PC or making a crit just a normal hit.  There have been a few times that I have cheated and given the BBEG more hit points in the middle of the fight when it looked like the PC's were just going to walk all over him in 1-2 rounds.  It didn't change the outcome, but it did extend the fight a little longer, which is all I was hoping to do.  Overall, I would cheat more in favour of the PC's than against them.As a player, I think I did cheat a little in my mid-teens when I first started playing.  It probably happened when my 17th level Rogue (that I was rather attached to, having been my very first PC) could have possibly died on a bad roll.  Now though I would never cheat as a player.  If my character dies due to a series of bad rolls, he dies.  There are ways to bring him back.  If there aren't I can just roll up a new character.There is one player in my current group that I suspect may cheat from time to time.  He always seems to roll quite high for his attack rolls.  His d20 is also very hard to read so I can't really tell at a glance whether he is cheating or not.  His last character was 20 Dex Fighter specialising in Archery (with most of the Archery-based feats) so he was quite good at what he did.  That may explain why he seemed to hit such high AC's so often.  He's playing a Wizard in the current campaign so there will be less rolls for me to worry about if he is cheating now.Olaf the Stout</blockquote>

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