Zak S
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"you realize there's no point to thinking as it provides no benefit, and it ceases to be a challenge, just you waiting for the GM to decide to let you win."
You should be more careful with your words then. You did in fact equate fudging with winning.
Let me amend this so it's clearer to you:
As soon as you are aware the DM will fudge, you know it's less imperative to think, so you think less (the situation is less under your control) and you just wait for the DM to tell you that you won (Or, though this is less common in my experience, lost.)
If I become aware that this is your habit: yes.So if I fudge a miss into a crit, it got less challenging for you?
I cease to imagine myself in a world where I must think as hard as possible because my actions and my weighing of consequences and become aware I am basically waiting for a GM's presentation to play out in my favor or against it.
Also, your decisions do still matter when I fudge a roll. Given that I only fudge rolls when extreme bad luck invalidates your actions, and then only enough to make your actions matter again, your actions would always matter in my game.
Yes. They would just matter LESS (EDIT:my choice of action, by definition, included weighing the possibility of "extreme bad luck")
This is a gradient: the more impartial the judge, the more the player feels their actions must be carefully thought out.
Not everyone likes things to be that competitive and tense. I do.