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<blockquote data-quote="jasper" data-source="post: 9543209" data-attributes="member: 277">Scott Christian.....If you are ok with rolling behind a screen as DM, then you should also be ok with letting your players. ....&nbsp; Oh hell NO. I just forever banned a casual player after 8 years for cheating at die rolls.&nbsp; He would have went faster but I and most of the other casuals pity him. And in general, a person making the BOLD is thinking about cheating.&nbsp; But this does seem to be a Major issue which should be discussed in public instead of PRIVATEly. I have seen and played with DM who were using a module which I knew well, and they ran it badly. So, with or without a screen, prep work means nothing occasionally.Some of us grew up with the DM Screen always being up. It allows the DM to fudge, cheat, hide information (Until his bathroom break and we read his notes), etc. A screen has it uses....As DM, if you know your group, you can create these encounters to be fun, rewarding, challenging - and not deadly....I am an Adventure League DM. So, it appears I need to know WELL all 121 subclasses, and 57 species well and how well the feats 88 interact.&nbsp; But I can't know the well because over half my players are dirty causals who don't update their sheets to five minutes before I get there. I have ran 558 sessions with 156 deaths. 2 TPKs. 1 TPS (Total Party Surrender), and 1 near TPK which only resulted in 1 death due to some one rolling Nat 20 and that creating a healing chain.It appears Scott is comfortable with mode of play of TV Show Captain Kirk, ATeam where no one dies. This is an acceptable play style.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="jasper, post: 9543209, member: 277"] Scott Christian.....I[B]f you are ok with rolling behind a screen as DM, then you should also be ok with letting your player[/B]s. .... Oh hell NO. I just forever banned a casual player after 8 years for cheating at die rolls. He would have went faster but I and most of the other casuals pity him. And in general, a person making the BOLD is thinking about cheating. But this does seem to be a Major issue which should be discussed in public instead of PRIVATEly. I have seen and played with DM who were using a module which I knew well, and they ran it badly. So, with or without a screen, prep work means nothing occasionally. Some of us grew up with the DM Screen always being up. It allows the DM to fudge, cheat, hide information (Until his bathroom break and we read his notes), etc. A screen has it uses. ...[B]As DM, if you know your group, you can create these encounters to be fun, rewarding, challenging - and not deadly..[/B].. I am an Adventure League DM. So, it appears I need to know WELL all 121 subclasses, and 57 species well and how well the feats 88 interact. But I can't know the well because over half my players are dirty causals who don't update their sheets to five minutes before I get there. I have ran 558 sessions with 156 deaths. 2 TPKs. 1 TPS (Total Party Surrender), and 1 near TPK which only resulted in 1 death due to some one rolling Nat 20 and that creating a healing chain. It appears Scott is comfortable with mode of play of TV Show Captain Kirk, ATeam where no one dies. This is an acceptable play style. [/QUOTE]

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