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<blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 9541445" data-attributes="member: 86653">Fudging is the polite label for cheating. The referee can cheat in all kinds of ways. Some mentioned already, some not. An incomplete list. Railroading. Quantum ogres. Skewing DCs. Adding monsters. Adding hit points. Removing monsters. Removing hit points. Protecting PCs from the consequences if their actions. Punishing PCs for not doing what you as the referee wanted them to do. Basically anything that is outside the referee’s prep or what makes sense in the fiction. Though a lot of antagonistic referees will try really hard to justify their cheating in the fiction. If you write down there’s 15 orcs in the room, there’s 15 orcs in the room. Doesn’t matter how hurt the PCs are or how rested they are. Doesn’t matter if you wanted them to go into another room first. If all you wrote down was 2d6+3 orcs and want to wait until the PCs enter to roll, then you roll. End of. Deciding it’s 15 instead of committing to rolling is also cheating.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="overgeeked, post: 9541445, member: 86653"] Fudging is the polite label for cheating. The referee can cheat in all kinds of ways. Some mentioned already, some not. An incomplete list. Railroading. Quantum ogres. Skewing DCs. Adding monsters. Adding hit points. Removing monsters. Removing hit points. Protecting PCs from the consequences if their actions. Punishing PCs for not doing what you as the referee wanted them to do. Basically anything that is outside the referee’s prep or what makes sense in the fiction. Though a lot of antagonistic referees will try really hard to justify their cheating in the fiction. If you write down there’s 15 orcs in the room, there’s 15 orcs in the room. Doesn’t matter how hurt the PCs are or how rested they are. Doesn’t matter if you wanted them to go into another room first. If all you wrote down was 2d6+3 orcs and want to wait until the PCs enter to roll, then you roll. End of. Deciding it’s 15 instead of committing to rolling is also cheating. [/QUOTE]

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