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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 4821133" data-attributes="member: 2067">I dissuade cheating mostly by believing that cheating at D&D is really, really pathetic.It's not like it's a game you can win, or a game that provides you any satisfaction from winning. You fudge your stats because you want to be a more badass make-believe fairy elf? Why? Is it really that important to you to be better than everyone else in a small margin that no one cares about? Important enough to violate trust and make everyone else's time less entertaining, all so you can get your imaginary fairy elf's sword to stick in imaginary bad guys slightly more often?How fragile must your ego be, how sad must be the little control you have over your own life, to really think you gain anything by cheating at D&D. This philosophy generally extends to most casual gaming for me. I get that some people are competitive and want that edge and psychologically want to win a bit more, but since you get absolutely nothing in D&D -- not even victory, which is basically assured to you anyway -- I can't see why any normal functioning adult would care that much. It's not anger I feel when I catch a player cheating, it's surprise and pity. I don't even really care that they cheated (though I don't think they should do it again, and I will shame them to their faces. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />). It's just like: "Dude. This obviously matters too much to you. Go do something else for a while."I'm kind of mystified by the outrage, too, though. Same general argument applies: it's not really worth getting worked up over.</blockquote>

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