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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Imaculata" data-source="post: 7751884" data-attributes="member: 6801286">The only thing I hide from my players, are unexplored rooms of a dungeon, the plot that I've prepared for them, and some stats of opponents. I've noticed that the DM screen is usually just there to indicate my authority as a DM, but I might as well put it aside. Most of my super secret notes are in a binder anyway, and I make most of my rolls in the open. Especially in regards to combat. Rolls for random tables I tend to make behind the DM screen, since the outcome of the dice has no meaning to the players, since they don't know what is on the random tables.Do you though? Because back when I still fudged as a DM, I hid it because I did not want to give the feeling that I as a DM was protecting them. I wanted them to think that the dice fell where they did, and that their victory was their own. When they survived by the skin of their teeth, I wanted them to think they earned that victory, when in reality they would have (probably) lost/died.Not at all the same reason that I keep the plot and dungeons a secret.</blockquote>