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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8596522" data-attributes="member: 6790260">Exactly.Even if 90% of players are not outright negative about fudging, that means 10% are outright negative. Most D&D groups are a DM plus four or five players, so even if we use that 10% figure, only 59% of five-player groups (.9^5 = 0.59049) would be in the clear--still a majority, but far from a slam dunk no questions kind of thing. If we bump it up just a little, to 85% not-negative vs 15% negative, a five-player group has only a 44.4% (0.4437053125) chance of having zero concerned players. If it's as bad as this thread's poll implies (that is, only 95/134), then it's a (95/134)^5 = 17.9% chance that no one in a five-player group would have an issue, and a 25.3% chance that a four-player group wouldn't have at least one concerned player.Point being: even if we presume this poll is MASSIVELY over-representing players outright opposed to fudging, the odds someone will be upset if you do it without telling them are sufficiently high that it should be something people talk about. But they don't. I have been told repeatedly in threads like this one--one of them on this very forum--that the DM should not tell their players that they fudge, ever, no matter what. That it should be a secret the DM keeps to their grave.</blockquote>