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<blockquote data-quote="TheAuldGrump" data-source="post: 5270662" data-attributes="member: 6957">If you mean 'the GM rolls all the dice' then, yes, I tried it back in the early eighties.It was quite possibly the most annoying and ill considered thing that I have ever done as a GM. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> The game was slowed way down, and the players really didn't like being told whether they hit or missed with someone else rolling the dice, even if it is the GM. And it felt a Hell of a lot like I was playing by myself, so I wasn't having a good time either.Two hours in I threw in the towel, apologized to the players, and rewound time - it was a total suck fest, with no one happy. I highly recommend not doing this. Worst of all, it was my own idea to try it, and I have no one else that I can blame for a truly miserable game.If on the other hand you mean 'GM rolls Sneak, Spot, Search, and Listen' then I do that all the time, and no one has any problems with it. I have also used a 'roll against' system - I roll a D20, and the number rolled becomes '1', flipping over for the numbers above 20. So if I roll a 3 then a '20' becomes a 17, and a '2' becomes 20. Annoying, and I haven't done this in a decade or two.The Auld Grump</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheAuldGrump, post: 5270662, member: 6957"] If you mean 'the GM rolls [i]all[/i] the dice' then, yes, I tried it back in the early eighties. It was quite possibly the most annoying and ill considered thing that I have ever done as a GM. :( The game was slowed [i]way[/i] down, and the players [i]really[/i] didn't like being told whether they hit or missed with someone else rolling the dice, even if it is the GM. And it felt a Hell of a lot like I was playing by myself, so I wasn't having a good time either. Two hours in I threw in the towel, apologized to the players, and rewound time - it was a total suck fest, with no one happy. I highly recommend [i]not[/i] doing this. Worst of all, it was my own idea to try it, and I have no one else that I can blame for a truly miserable game. If on the other hand you mean 'GM rolls Sneak, Spot, Search, and Listen' then I do that all the time, and no one has any problems with it. I have also used a 'roll against' system - I roll a D20, and the number rolled becomes '1', flipping over for the numbers above 20. So if I roll a 3 then a '20' becomes a 17, and a '2' becomes 20. Annoying, and I haven't done this in a decade or two. The Auld Grump [/QUOTE]

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