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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reiella" data-source="post: 1734608" data-attributes="member: 160">I just want to chime in here.Not only is he cheating himself by altering the results in his benefit.  He's cheating the rest of the party as well.  He's artificially inflating his "importance" to the adventure and thus lowering everyone elses.  He also makes the encounters, in general, less of a challenge for everyone else.Then there's also the Power Escalation Issue.  The DM may have to start throwing tougher encounters at the party because of the cheating player (in order for everyone to be challenged), however this results in the problem of the cheating player feeling it necessary to cheat in order to have a viable chance to succeed, while the rest of the party has to face harsher encounters that they are not as well fit to handle because they do not cheat.</blockquote>