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<blockquote data-quote="ggroy" data-source="post: 4857123" data-attributes="member: 83805">The trick is maintaining a facade, so that the players don't catch on so easily to the DM playing with a different set of rules.&nbsp; At minimum, I would keep a lot of dice around and one of the core books turned to a semi-random page, behind the DM screen.&nbsp; (I would change the semi-random page or even the book, every so often).In terms of dice rolling, I would always roll enough dice so that it &quot;sounded&quot; like I was rolling damage whenever a badguy was attacking a player character, even if the badguy's attack was a miss.&nbsp; Conversely, I would sometimes roll a d20 &quot;defense roll&quot; when a badguy was attacked, even if I was never going to be using the &quot;defense roll&quot; during my &quot;experiment&quot;.&nbsp; I also would try to maintain a &quot;poker face&quot; whenever I rolled a natural 20 crit for a badguy attacking a player, and just tell them the high damage roll without any &quot;excitement&quot;.&nbsp; The only hint that I rolled a crit was in my description of what the badguy did to the player.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ggroy, post: 4857123, member: 83805"] The trick is maintaining a facade, so that the players don't catch on so easily to the DM playing with a different set of rules. At minimum, I would keep a lot of dice around and one of the core books turned to a semi-random page, behind the DM screen. (I would change the semi-random page or even the book, every so often). In terms of dice rolling, I would always roll enough dice so that it "sounded" like I was rolling damage whenever a badguy was attacking a player character, even if the badguy's attack was a miss. Conversely, I would sometimes roll a d20 "defense roll" when a badguy was attacked, even if I was never going to be using the "defense roll" during my "experiment". I also would try to maintain a "poker face" whenever I rolled a natural 20 crit for a badguy attacking a player, and just tell them the high damage roll without any "excitement". The only hint that I rolled a crit was in my description of what the badguy did to the player. [/QUOTE]

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