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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LordEntrails" data-source="post: 8596037" data-attributes="member: 6804070">No. Thank you though.You think they don't. And for other DMs that are not you, sometimes the DM might be right, but more than many DMs think, the players get a feeling or know that you are.Use a diceless system. Why use a system that focuses on die rolls for resolution when you are not going to rely upon the die rolls?In all of these hypotheticals you are missing so many steps.First, the DM has made a mistake by rolling on that table.Second, the players have made a mistake by choosing to engage in combat.Three, the DM has once again made a mistake by choosing to have the NPCs engage the party in combat.Fourth, the players have again made a mistake by staying engaged in combatFifth, the DM has made a mistake by demanding the results be a TPK.There are so many things one can do with an "impossible" encounter rather than try to fight and lose.No it doesn't. The die roll says their is a balor nearby. The party is beneath it, why would it waste it's time? Do you go stamping on and killing every ant you cross paths with? I don't, and neither does the balor need to. Perhaps it picks up the ant and looks at it. Maybe if the ant bite it then the balor will flick it away and curse. Perhaps the balor is seen at a distance. Or is in the middle of a nap, or a ritual, or... you have an imagination, use it.Or, perhaps it is a sub-set of people who have experienced DMs doing things that ruined a campaign (or three) and are willing to share their experience so other DMs can be aware of the potential for ruining their own campaigns with things that they think are harmless?Probably. But with all internet debates, moderation is never what is discussed <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Because of course if you are willing to fudge, then it must be that you will fudge every roll GYou persist with these binary examples. Free yourself, encounters do not need to have binary outcomings. (see my comments above)Again, pointless binary hypotheticals. Let's see how many mistakes the DM has made in your example;1) rolled on a table with a result they don't want2) made the NPCs attack the party (why can't the zombies be on a walk somewhere like lemmings? It could lead to a whole new story line with a cult and a necromancer and...)3) the DM caused the portcullis to dropThere are 3 things right their the DM can do without fudging and completely change your predetermined "certain" outcome.</blockquote>

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