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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 8173195" data-attributes="member: 3400"><p>You see, this is what we always face <strong>without fail</strong> - a raft of assumptions that what we're doing is pre-deciding without even consulting the dice... for everything. You're assuming that the determination was used ahead of time when it might have just been a case of, once the roll is seen, "ouch, not <strong>that</strong> one". </p><p>And you're apparently oblivious to the idea that "why roll at all" being the extreme end opposite of "never fudge" when more moderate positions might be "accept the roll for most stuff, but if the GM is on a hot streak of crits, maybe it's time to ignore a natural 20 or two" or "I'm rolling for wandering monsters, but rather than using the warband of 40 orcs I got, I'll bump it down to their scouting party of 5" or even "I rolled a crit on this 4d8 attack, if I shave off a couple of dice instead of rolling all 8d8 the point will still be made"</p><p>It's not that everything is false, it's that the die roll is considered like any other input in the GM's side of the screen - subject to edits.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="billd91, post: 8173195, member: 3400"] You see, this is what we always face [b]without fail[/b] - a raft of assumptions that what we're doing is pre-deciding without even consulting the dice... for everything. You're assuming that the determination was used ahead of time when it might have just been a case of, once the roll is seen, "ouch, not [b]that[/b] one". And you're apparently oblivious to the idea that "why roll at all" being the extreme end opposite of "never fudge" when more moderate positions might be "accept the roll for most stuff, but if the GM is on a hot streak of crits, maybe it's time to ignore a natural 20 or two" or "I'm rolling for wandering monsters, but rather than using the warband of 40 orcs I got, I'll bump it down to their scouting party of 5" or even "I rolled a crit on this 4d8 attack, if I shave off a couple of dice instead of rolling all 8d8 the point will still be made" It's not that everything is false, it's that the die roll is considered like any other input in the GM's side of the screen - subject to edits. [/QUOTE]
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