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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8953239" data-attributes="member: 30438">In Gary Alan Fine's Shared Fantasy, as far as I know the earliest scholarly work on RPGs, he talks about fudging and cheating. And it does give me comfort to know that it's been with us since the earliest days.As for a DM fudging vs. not, I think it also comes down to maintaining trust with the players. For some, that means sticking precisely to the dice results as rolled, no matter what. For others it means tweaking the dice now and then to help the story evolve, to make sure that the PCs don't die after a random goblin crits them for max damage, shutting down their narrative prematurely. And that nuance, I think, is part of why the debate continues to this day.</blockquote>