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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Flamestrike" data-source="post: 8341101" data-attributes="member: 6788736">Excuse me? I nearly got infracted the other day for far less. Dont talk down to me and tell me my game isnt working. And you're wrong. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a DM rolling for no reason at all. To quote Gygax:''A DM only rolls dice for the sound they make.''Part of being a DM is being an entertainer, not a boring numbers man. There tons of tricks to keep your players engaged, and maintaining suspense and so forth.I wont have you (or anyone else) telling me 'I can only roll a dice when the results matter'. As the DM I can use whatever techniques I want to keep my players engaged, entertained, suspenseful and so forth.Cool. Whatever works for you.I have pre-ordained 'random' encounters that I roll for and then happen regardless of the roll, dice rolls and pretending to look something up from time to time (in addition to actually looking stuff up other times), secret rolls, open rolls and more.I have the best interest of the game at heart. If you (as a player) want to complain about that because you dont trust me then fine, find another table. It's no skin of my back. Im doing what I do as a participant and showman, not just as a random number generator.I also expect DMs to do the same when I'm playing as well. Each to their own.</blockquote>