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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5879110" data-attributes="member: 9037">I was playing in a Forgotten realms 2E game and I rolled fantastic stats openly in front of the DM. I rolled two 18 and he made me drop them to 16 to be fair to the other players who had not rolled so well. So I started the camping a little on the pissy side. As the game went on I found myself often not being able to keep up with the other fighter who had used skills and powers to make his PC. The DM gave XP individually so if you were not the one doing as many killing blows you did not get as much XP or even as much treasure. I tried talking to the DM asking if I could make a new character but he said no. So I started fudging my rolls if no one was looking. The only other time I cheated has been in a game where I designed a wizard who was all about knowledge. My spells were of the variety that were more about party support then blasting things. We had a sorcerer who did that.Then a new player joined and brought in a bard who was just as good or better in the knowledge dept. He had a higher intelligence more skill points so his rolls tended to always be higher than mine. I started feeling redundant. I tried to talk to the DM who was like does it really matter who gets the information you are a party. So I started saying my roll was higher. Of course I knew it wasn't so in the end I suicide the character and brought in something else.  I saw my roommate cheating on a save in a game. Later I asked her why and it was because she would have died if she failed and she had just died earlier in the game and she made a new character while we continued playing and she didn't want to do it again so soon.</blockquote>

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