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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 8602771" data-attributes="member: 6790260">That quote does not advocate fudging. It advocates good judgment in addition to the rules. Every single thing I have advocated is not fudging, but IS using good judgment to build preferable solutions to undesirable results, as opposed to invisibly forcing desirable results.It is not. My players know immediately when I choose not to roll the dice (or, rather, when I choose not to have them roll the dice). Usually because I tell them.I have said several times that the concealment is a vital part of this. If it isn't concealed, it's not fudging. How on earth could you conceal choosing not to roll? You literally have to tell them about that!I would be very unhappy (probably not quite as unhappy as with fudging, but very unhappy nonetheless) to learn that the DM was secretly doing things like rewriting combats solely because the party was already beaten up or removing traps solely to not upset the players etc. Cohesion in the world matters to me. The causal link between my choices and their results matters to me. Because that means the DM doesn't take my efforts seriously; I would feel like a coddled child being secretly pulled along from one attraction to another with no actual agency.Okay, but hear me out: What if you could avoid undesirable consequences and at the same time avoid any risk whatsoever of "compromising your own fun worrying about [possible fudging]"? Would you not agree that that would be the best of both worlds--preventing both the bad thing caused by unvarnished bad luck and the bad thing caused by not believing that the results are genuine?Because that's what I've been advocating this whole time. I have been saying that it is not necessary to do the thing people are describing here. That it is entirely possible to retain consistency in the world AND avoid making secret invisible changes AND address unwanted and unpleasant side-effects, all at the same time. It just requires being open, diegetic, or prepared, or any combination of the three.</blockquote>

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