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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8601329" data-attributes="member: 16814">You can quibble about lack of integrity for a given situation, but you cannot make this claim a blanket claim.  Some GMs are acting within the bounds of integrity when they fudge, and these are the ones that tell you they will do it and get buy in so that it's an understood part of the game.  Ones that hide it, and deny it, and still do it are not acting with integrity.  Colville's recommendation is without integrity.That doesn't mean there are not good intentions.  People lie for what they earnestly believe are good reasons all the time.  I'm not making a judgement about someone's character when I point out that the kind of fudging that involves hiding it is lying -- by omission at the best.  They can be perfectly fine people that earnestly believe this makes for a more enjoyable time for everyone when they do it.  It's not my thing, I'm not going to like it, and if I've made that clear and the GM does it anyway, then I'm going to be upset at the lie no matter how much the GM thought it was the right thing to do.  It was not the right thing to do.  Again, for me, when I play (and run).</blockquote>