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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bront" data-source="post: 2271186" data-attributes="member: 19696">I've been pondering making one to use as reference, but I don't hide much behind it.  Of course, since I sometimes have trouble reading my own notes, my game info is usually safe.I do prefer to hide my rolls though, simply because i've had experiences where players will assume they know what a roll means and have trouble RPing it down, and I prefer to fudge the rolls as to not kill a character in a single lucky blow.  Things like spot checks, monsters hiding, things like that.  I like to also make several inocuous rolls (as well as make the players do that as well) to throw them off guard.On a side note, I've seen some interesting results with GMs who use the open die rolls.  One GM nearly killed one of the most powerful NPCs in the campaign with a critical (and death is far more perminent in that campaign).  With assisted magical healing, they were able to get him back on his feat in about 9 months.Another GM had fun with me when I rolled a 1 on a search check to detect traps.  After examining the door I believed I had found nearly 20 traps.  So, being the greedy character I was and thinking there was a mother load of treasure beyond the door, I set about disarming them for about 20 minutes.  I rolled well on the disarm and had considerable skill, and was able to disarm all the phantom traps as well as the real one (which I realized was the only one after disarming it, but I didn't have to tell the party that).  He just gave me a nasty modifier to the disarm.  I thought it was an interesting way to handle a horable failure.</blockquote>

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