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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Elf Witch" data-source="post: 5885727" data-attributes="member: 9037">There is a social contract when you sit down and play and RPG. If the DM says I am going to run a heroic style campaign and it is not going to be gritty more along the lines of superhero game to sell it to his players then turns around and runs the game as a gritty death filled campaign he has lied to his players.As others have said if you play in a game where everyone agrees to let the dice fall as they may and the DM fudges the dice rolls then he is breaking the social contract and a lot of players have said they considered that a form of cheating.I always roll behind a screen and I will fudge to make the game better if I deem it so. I prefer to play in games where the DM is willing to fudge now and then. But my players know this and agreed to play this way. If I had a player ask me not to then I would honor is request and not do so on matters of dice rolling.The other examples are not cheating it is running the game. Being able to adjust things on the fly is a sign of a good DM. Maybe you wrote a combat where at a certain point a lot of undead were going to come streaming in the room. But you didn't plan for the cleric to get knocked to -5 and while stabilized is out of commission. You know now that as written the party won't be able to handle it and it will be a TPK you can go ahead and still run it as written or you can adjust it. That is no different then running a printed module and taking out all the traps because the party does not have a rogue. Adding hit points to an NPC to make the encounter more challenging or taking off hit points to make it easier is not cheating. Saying you hit a PC when you missed or adding more damage than you rolled is going into the realm of cheating. Telling a player they missed when they hit just because you didn't want them to hit is in my opinion cheating. If your players find out you are doing that then you are going to have some angry players on your hands. Because you have made what they do not count.</blockquote>

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