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<blockquote data-quote="Mannahnin" data-source="post: 9682832" data-attributes="member: 7026594">Yes, IME players cheating on rolls was a much bigger topic of concern back in the day.&nbsp; I still occasionally encountered it with younger players into the 2000s. Gary explicitly endorses the DM fudging rolls in the 1979 DMG, in the interest of a more fun session.&nbsp; The specific example I'm thinking of is describing an expedition where the PCs have a long wilderness journey and have planned and equipped well for the dungeon at the end of it, and the possibility of that being derailed by a particularly bad random encounter roll in the wilderness.&nbsp; Gary advises pretending the encounter roll never occurred.&nbsp; I think Gary was the source of a later quote which we also see occasionally in old school circles about &quot;The DM rolls the dice principally for the sound they make&quot;. I remember when I was a young newbie learning to DM and assiduously reading BECMI and AD&amp;D, coming to the conclusion that I had to fudge rolls behind the screen or the game would be too lethal.&nbsp; Of course, this was many years before I would learn the virtues of morale checks, reaction rolls, and rolling in the open.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mannahnin, post: 9682832, member: 7026594"] Yes, IME players cheating on rolls was a much bigger topic of concern back in the day. I still occasionally encountered it with younger players into the 2000s. Gary explicitly endorses the DM fudging rolls in the 1979 DMG, in the interest of a more fun session. The specific example I'm thinking of is describing an expedition where the PCs have a long wilderness journey and have planned and equipped well for the dungeon at the end of it, and the possibility of that being derailed by a particularly bad random encounter roll in the wilderness. Gary advises pretending the encounter roll never occurred. I think Gary was the source of a later quote which we also see occasionally in old school circles about "The DM rolls the dice principally for the sound they make". I remember when I was a young newbie learning to DM and assiduously reading BECMI and AD&D, coming to the conclusion that I [I]had [/I]to fudge rolls behind the screen or the game would be too lethal. Of course, this was many years before I would learn the virtues of morale checks, reaction rolls, and rolling in the open. [/QUOTE]

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