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<blockquote data-quote="Wolfspider" data-source="post: 18289" data-attributes="member: 300">So I should have killed off my girlfriend's character, eh?&nbsp; Hmmm.&nbsp; I guess I'll just have to do that next session, to prove my integrity as a DM. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />Seriously, I do fudge when it's necessary for the overall enjoyment of everyone in the game.&nbsp; I don't do it regularly.&nbsp; I don't play favorites with my beasties.In fact, I have played in games where DMs are obviously changing all the rolls to their advantage, and this is horribly frustrating.&nbsp; Frustrating does not equal fun, so I would never do this in one of my games.The key words are minor and judicious, as I said above.&nbsp; Not everyday and haphazard.&nbsp; I'm sorry if I'm not making the differences between these two things clear--my own weakness as a writer, I guess.I just don't see the kind of fudging that I do as cheating.&nbsp; When a player lies to me about every roll, that's cheating.&nbsp; When a DM changes rolls to make sure his side wins everytime, that's cheating.&nbsp; When I modify dice rolls to make sure everyone has a fun time, that's fudging.I still look at D&amp;D as a game, the object of which is for all of the participants to have fun.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Wolfspider, post: 18289, member: 300"] So I should have killed off my girlfriend's character, eh? Hmmm. I guess I'll just have to do that next session, to prove my integrity as a DM. :D Seriously, I do fudge when it's necessary for the overall enjoyment of everyone in the game. I don't do it regularly. I don't play favorites with my beasties. In fact, I [i]have[/i] played in games where DMs are obviously changing all the rolls to their advantage, and this is horribly frustrating. Frustrating does not equal fun, so I would never do this in one of my games. The key words are [i]minor[/i] and [i]judicious[/i], as I said above. Not everyday and haphazard. I'm sorry if I'm not making the differences between these two things clear--my own weakness as a writer, I guess. I just don't see the kind of fudging that I do as cheating. When a player lies to me about every roll, that's cheating. When a DM changes rolls to make sure his side wins everytime, that's cheating. When I modify dice rolls to make sure everyone has a fun time, that's fudging. I still look at D&D as a game, the object of which is for all of the participants to have fun. [/QUOTE]

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