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Two 20s, no 1s - how often do you use altered dice?
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<blockquote data-quote="starkad" data-source="post: 1612176" data-attributes="member: 6803"><p>I do it from time to time, if my rolls are superbly horrendous that evening, so I don't feel useless. I'd say I do it once every 10-20 game sessions. As a DM? I cheat all the time. To both make it more exciting, and to make it more challenging. Sometimes both, sometimes neither, and other times just to make sure PCs don't die for the 3rd time that night. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>I accept player cheating as part of the game, and as long as it doesn't get out of hand, I am fine with it. It's having fun that counts, and as long as it makes him happy, and doesn't interfere with other players... Go nuts pal.</p><p></p><p>For instance: I am now playing (GASP) in a game for the first time in 4 years. 7th sea d20 flavor, 10ish level. I fumbled (we use the DC15 dex check method to determine if the 1 is a really bad miss, or if it's a FUMBLE) no less than 5 times. I cheated on the last fumble of the night when noone was looking. Why? Because I felt utterly useless, this is my favorite character ever (I wrote literally 10 single spaced pages worth of character history, and developed 5 NPCs for the GM to tie into my background...), and failing that last roll catastrophically would have meant his death. Am I a dishonorable person? Perhaps... But I had fun, and dying is not what I call fun - though if he were to die due to plot circumstances, to a bad guy, or a monster I would be fine with it... But a climb check where I got cocky? No way, Jose! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="starkad, post: 1612176, member: 6803"] I do it from time to time, if my rolls are superbly horrendous that evening, so I don't feel useless. I'd say I do it once every 10-20 game sessions. As a DM? I cheat all the time. To both make it more exciting, and to make it more challenging. Sometimes both, sometimes neither, and other times just to make sure PCs don't die for the 3rd time that night. :) I accept player cheating as part of the game, and as long as it doesn't get out of hand, I am fine with it. It's having fun that counts, and as long as it makes him happy, and doesn't interfere with other players... Go nuts pal. For instance: I am now playing (GASP) in a game for the first time in 4 years. 7th sea d20 flavor, 10ish level. I fumbled (we use the DC15 dex check method to determine if the 1 is a really bad miss, or if it's a FUMBLE) no less than 5 times. I cheated on the last fumble of the night when noone was looking. Why? Because I felt utterly useless, this is my favorite character ever (I wrote literally 10 single spaced pages worth of character history, and developed 5 NPCs for the GM to tie into my background...), and failing that last roll catastrophically would have meant his death. Am I a dishonorable person? Perhaps... But I had fun, and dying is not what I call fun - though if he were to die due to plot circumstances, to a bad guy, or a monster I would be fine with it... But a climb check where I got cocky? No way, Jose! :) [/QUOTE]
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