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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monayuris" data-source="post: 8598619" data-attributes="member: 6859536">Yeah you are getting into house rules territory which I think is a different situation.Sometimes you have to make an on the fly ruling and sometimes you have to come up with a house rule if the rules create an undesirable outcome for the group.Fudging to me is different. To me it is changing the outcome of a known applied rule to suit the preferred outcome of the DM.The ability for a monster with multi attack to roll multiple crits is a known potential result of the rules. It should be implicit that it can happen and anyone playing the game should expect it if it happens.A DM may look at the three natural twenties they rolled and think that is a little too harsh, they’ll only count one of them. That is fudging.The DM may decide a creature can only roll one crit on a multiattack, that’s a house rule.Generally house rules should be shared with the players and it’s perfectly ok for a DM to make the house rule on the spot and tell the players. The DM may also just fudge it and tell the players: “I rolled three crits but I will only count one of them, because I think that is too harsh.”I think once you have hard fast rules for fudging you are really house ruling and you should just make those rules known.</blockquote>