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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 8596797" data-attributes="member: 7028554">Here's another way of thinking about this issue.Would you, as a player, think less of a GM who you know is fudging dice rolls?It's easy as a GM to cut yourself lots of slack, to talk about maintaining immersion, keeping the good times going, etc. But step around to the other side of the table for a second. Would it sit right with you?I'm almost always the GM in my group, but when I have been a player, and I've realized dice-fudging is happening, I definitely lose some faith and respect in the GM. I don't call them out, or flip the table and storm out, but to me it undermines the whole experience. I don't expect anyone to be perfect at GMing, whatever that even means. It just seems like such a tactic of last resort that if I know it's going on--much less if someone fesses up to it later--it feels like an indicator that a whole lot is going wrong behind the scenes. Maybe that it was more of a railroad than we even realized, or that the GM has treasured NPCs they can't bear to part with, that they really were scripting this thing out like a video game level, or that they simply can't improvise, which I think is the hands-down, number one most important skill for a GM to have (or at least develop).So, for the pro-fudge camp, if you're player, and GM fudging is afoot, are you really as psyched as you are about doing it yourself?</blockquote>