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Message: <blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 5742155" data-attributes="member: 40166">I think this goes back to the "don't roll the dice if you don't want the action". Yes, sometimes you roll and then you get the crit and it's bad. But if an NPC is casting a spell/using a power, and everything is going to go wrong if the PCs don't make their save, don't blame everything going wrong on not-fudging. (And even if he saved, what fun is an enemy that stood there casting spells that fizzled?)Some of the people above have made pretty persuasive arguments for particular cases of fudging. But I'd say "How do you fudgers decide when to fudge to save a PC, and when to let him/her  die?" is still a good question; that's part of the place we get the confidence from, from talking to other people about when they fudged, and evaluating it for ourselves.I think there's definitely DMs out there who I would rather they didn't fudge at all rather than fudge the way they do when I'm playing with them. This has been a bit binary of a discussion, but I stand by my opinion that people who fudge for things like making boss battles come up to the "right" length would make the game less fun for me. People who don't like fudging often have bad experience with fudging.</blockquote>