Do you fudge?

[Quasqueton]

How often do you, as DM, fudge the game to keep PCs/parties alive? What do you fudge: die rolls, NPC/monster actions and reactions, timing?

If you don’t fudge constantly, what prompts you to fudge? What event or potentiality warrants a fudge?

Quasqueton

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I have to fudge in my favor all the time. If I did not then the PCs would never face any challenges at all, as whenever I DM I have horrible rolls. So half the time I just decide whether I want the attack to hit or miss, or the monster to save or not save, etc.

 

[Gundark]

Hmmm well I used to fudge every now and then. Now I roll in front of the party, not that they asked for that or anything, I just started doing it. So now I voted that I never fudge.

 

[Scribble]

I houseruled a "Luck point" system, so fudging has been vastly reduced.

Sometimes I will still fudge, because either

1. A really unlucky roll made the enemy pretty much lamed...

2. An unfortunate die roll would decimate the party unexpectantly...

3. I'm making the fudge from #1 up to the players... IE to counteract a funble I overruled earlier, I'll override a crit the monster could have made later.

Again, with the luck points fudging is made much less frequent...

 

[Gargoyle]

I put a 1 because I hardly ever fudge.

My reasoning is that if you fudge frequently, they will figure it out, and it lessens everyone's enjoyment.

However, if I've blundered things pretty badly with a poorly planned encounter, I might fudge a roll or two to help them out. I never help the bad guys out, I figure I can make more.

 

[Seeker95]

The spread for this poll will be less than informative because it has 10 choices with only three explantions of the meaning. What is the differences between a 2 and a 3? A 3 and a 4? The results may be "curved", but it is probably better to offer five specific options:
Never
Frequently
Occasionally
Infrequently
Never

 

[jinx crossbow]

My dictionary said to things for fudge:
1) cheating
2) talking nonsense

I allways do 2), but not very often 1)

What did you mean?

Jinx

 

[Psion]

I generally avoid fudgnig, and prefer systems and variants that make it so I don't have to. I also don't make encounters threatening unless I want them to be life threatening.

In short, I try to not roll a dice if I am not willing to accept and enforce the outcome of it. Don't roll the dice if you aren't willing to pay the price!

I have always thought DMs were rather silly that put instant death traps in their adventures and then fudge the results to avoid their effects.

 

[The Cardinal]

0 - never ever

 

[diaglo]

i diabetic. fudge is too sweet.