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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8952541" data-attributes="member: 6790260">IMO, admitting and addressing your mistakes is an incredibly important thing. Expecting every DM to maintain a facade of absolute perfection is one of the biggest reasons people fear starting (that and the belief that they must have absolutely encyclopedic knowledge of both the game rules and all possible scenario components the players might ask about.) Teaching DMs that it is perfectly okay to make mistakes, and that dealing with them calmly and rationally is healthy and leads to (much) better DMing, is a far, far, far better lesson than "you can trick your players into thinking you never make mistakes if you just never allow them to know."Again, I disagree. Either it is a crutch--as you say, something that should be eliminated by changing one's process--or it is a deception. Neither of these is good. It should be avoided. Anything productive that can be achieved with fudging can be achieved without. No one has ever presented me with a single situation that could only be solved by fudging, and almost all of the "edge cases" you speak of are terribly, terribly contrived to begin with.</blockquote>