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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 5879365" data-attributes="member: 7533">I cheated pretty consistently through grade school, because I was the shortest, scrawniest little science geek in class, and if I couldn't literally throw my weight around in real life, I could at least make certain that I could figuratively do it in our collective imaginations...I perpetually rerolled ability scores, as mentioned above, until I realized I was effectively just picking my stats.  So then I started just picking ability scores out of thin air, and made them look like I rolled them after a few hundred tries.I had several sets of dice that numbers and patterns colored such that were very difficult to read from more then 3 inches away.  I'd roll them, and then inflate the number.I'd award my characters extra experience and gear, and claim that he got them from adventures that I played with other groups.I'd conveniently forget to mark down damage...  Or mark down less damage than he actually took.I'd neglect to mark off spells that had been cast, or potions, or scrolls that had been used.I'd mark down the entire load of monetary loot that we found, rather than just my share of it...  Or I'd purchase something at "discount".And probably a lot of other sneaky little tricks, too, that I've forgotten.Nobody ever called me on it, because for the most part everyone else was doing it too...  And we had an awful lot of fun with our late-night, sugar-fueled, pre-adolescent, imaginary power-trips.</blockquote>

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