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Message: <blockquote data-quote="the Jester" data-source="post: 4154198" data-attributes="member: 1210">This is a beautiful, erudite statement that sums up my attitude very well. <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=":)" /> The part in bold is especially important in my book- even some of my own players have sometimes have a hard time wrapping their heads around the idea that I can be out to kill them and out to see them succeed at the same time. The adversarial relationship is with the adversaries, not the dm.Especially in higher-level games, I set up problems (even crazy epic problems) for the pcs with no solutions in mind. It's their job to come up with the solutions, not mine! And almost always, they do.I'm a little more willing to fudge than you are, but it's very, very rare that I do so- once every month or so (and I think the last four or five fudges were on random encounter checks, because I wanted to either speed up or slow down the game).</blockquote>