Handling Cheating

[Vincent Blackwater]

So the next session, when he's a player again, he shows us on his sheet that he's taken a single level dip in Paladin. But not for optimization it turns out, he took the paladin level, so he could qualify as the best PC wielding the +5 Holy Avenger, that he provided - he said, as a paladin, it should be his item.

Haha that is a guy I would kick out of group and tell him, "Until you quit being a douchebag you can find another group to play in."

I've been lucky not to have players like that. I have no patience for those who are unscrupulous in nature, and that boy is exactly that.

 

[bloodtide]

That's an OUTSTANDING idea.

In all my years of gaming, I've never thought of that.

I'm stealing your idea. If I ever see a player cheat in the future (it's happened so rarely to me, that it's years or decades in between instances), I won't make a fuss and kick him out of the game. I'll simply fudge to his detriment several times, until he gets the point.

The 'second cheat' does level things out nicely. For example when you have the classic ''add a couple'' cheater (who adds something like +2 to all their rolls), you can make the cheat not even matter by adding +2 to whatever they are trying to beat.

Should the player ''read the book'' or otherwise know something they should not and try to use it in the game, they will 'suddenly' find not exactly what they thought they would find. For example when they try the ''oh I walk over to the northwest corner and lean on the wall and fall into the secret door'', I will simply have a trap or two on the door(that was not in the book). Or should the player try and 'rob a bank' going by the book description, they will suddenly find the traps changed...even just from a 'fire trap' to an 'ice trap' to make the fire protections useless.

In general, I've found it a waste of time to confront a cheater. It just takes a lot out of the game play time. And about half the time the player won't admit it...even if caught red handed.

 

[Olaf the Stout]

Is it just me, or have we basically got down to the point of arguing semantics?

Olaf the Stout

 

[Water Bob]

Is it just me, or have we basically got down to the point of arguing semantics?

A GM can't argue semantics...

 

[The Red King]

Is it just me, or have we basically got down to the point of arguing semantics?

Olaf the Stout

We aren't arguing, we are having a "heated discussion".

 

[Vincent Blackwater]

We aren't arguing, we are having a "heated discussion".

We aren't having a heated discussion, we are having a "cool conversation".

 

[The Red King]

We aren't having a heated discussion, we are having a "cool conversation".

We aren't having a heated discussion, we are having a "intelligent debate".

 

[Cor Azer]

Charismatic conference?

 

[The Red King]

peacable discourse?

 

[Vincent Blackwater]

Delicate deliberation?