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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 4658874" data-attributes="member: 29398">I trust my players.  They're mature enough to know that if they cheat, they're really only screwing themselves out of a better game.Fortunately, I'm running 1e, so it's less likely they'll bungle or miss anything mechanical - there's no feats, etc. to worry about.  And dice rolls are out in the open.  Which means, I don't audit sheets very often, if at all.That said, it's a known fact that all of them will some point or other forget how basic arithmetic works; I've been guilty of this myself on occasion.  This is not intentional, and the resulting errors can go either way.  The most common places for this to manifest are in character finances and ExP totals....one guy I played with for ages, for example, normally very intelligent and a whiz with numbers, every so often calculated his ExP in some strange way (I forget the specifics) that shortchanged him some.  One session, when he wasn't there, I happened to check his ExP while adding on the latest batch; it took me hours to clean up the mess, and when I was done he was up by about 1/3 of a level. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Also, it hasn't always been so pleasant.  We've had some interesting instances in the past where the numbers *were* cooked, either at char-gen or later - but players have a way of dealing with such things...usually involving nasty things of the party's creation happening to cheaters' characters while the DM quietly switches off the alignment auditor... <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Lanefan</blockquote>

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