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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zinovia" data-source="post: 5105006" data-attributes="member: 57373">I used to roll behind my screen, but the last half dozen sessions or so, I've been rolling entirely openly.  I agree that it is liberating to just let the dice fall where they may at times.  Occasionally it's frustrating if all my monsters keep rolling badly, but hey, sometimes it <s>happens</s> falls out that way.  If I happen to kill a character, which hasn't <s>happened</s> occurred yet, it's not hard to get a res.  Two sessions ago, I rolled two natural 20's on the two OA's provoked by the rogue's movement - so even with all his bonuses vs OA, he went down and was near death (close to his negative bloodied value).  They were rolled in the clear, so everyone saw the two 20's sitting there, thinking "Oh damn".  Had I made those rolls behind the screen, I think I would have been tempted to change one of them to a non-critical, which would have been less interesting.  I was nervous when I first switched, thinking "But what if the fight is too hard?" but I've come to trust my own ability to build appropriate challenges that won't TPK the group.  I can still cheat if I really feel it's called for (very rarely), by changing monster hp on the fly, having reinforcements arrive, or having enemies flee the scene.</blockquote>