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<blockquote data-quote="monkeygrrl" data-source="post: 1516618" data-attributes="member: 16974">here's a few...waaaay back in college, we had a guy in our group that fudged dice rolls a lot.&nbsp; we were playing a lot of cthulu then, and he seemed to ALWAYS make his skill checks (percentile rolls, for those of you who don't know).&nbsp; we started watching him pretty closely, and on a roll that should have failed but he said succeeded, another player tried to call him on the cheating by asking &quot;hey, wasn't blue tens?&quot;&nbsp; without batting an eye he replied &quot;well, I'm alternating.&quot;&nbsp; and ever since, if someone botches a percentile roll they say, &quot;no, I was alternating!&quot;a few years ago our party was trying for some reason I can't remember now to tie something or someone up with ropes.&nbsp; the DM asked for a knot-tying skill check, which none of us had.&nbsp; in desperation, I said &quot;well, I've got boating, does that count?&quot; (arguing that knot-tying would be considered a necessary component of boating - and IIRC I was allowed to make the roll with penalties).&nbsp; and ever since, whenever the DM calls for a skill check on a skill no one has, we say, &quot;well, I've got boating!&quot;in another campaign, our party was supposed to deliver a message to a cleric stationed alone at a temple in the middle of nowhere.&nbsp; when we arrived, he had unexpectedly been replaced by a different cleric.&nbsp; when we asked what had happened to the first cleric, the new one said &quot;he moved on.&quot;&nbsp; it turned out the new guy was actually an evil cleric who had killed the first cleric and taken over the temple.&nbsp; now whenever we are asked where someone is and they are dead, especially if we have killed them or it is a delicate situation, we simply say, &quot;he moved on...&quot;&nbsp;<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="monkeygrrl, post: 1516618, member: 16974"] here's a few... waaaay back in college, we had a guy in our group that fudged dice rolls a lot. we were playing a lot of cthulu then, and he seemed to ALWAYS make his skill checks (percentile rolls, for those of you who don't know). we started watching him pretty closely, and on a roll that should have failed but he said succeeded, another player tried to call him on the cheating by asking "hey, wasn't blue tens?" without batting an eye he replied "well, I'm alternating." and ever since, if someone botches a percentile roll they say, "no, I was alternating!" a few years ago our party was trying for some reason I can't remember now to tie something or someone up with ropes. the DM asked for a knot-tying skill check, which none of us had. in desperation, I said "well, I've got boating, does that count?" (arguing that knot-tying would be considered a necessary component of boating - and IIRC I was allowed to make the roll with penalties). and ever since, whenever the DM calls for a skill check on a skill no one has, we say, "well, I've got boating!" in another campaign, our party was supposed to deliver a message to a cleric stationed alone at a temple in the middle of nowhere. when we arrived, he had unexpectedly been replaced by a different cleric. when we asked what had happened to the first cleric, the new one said "he moved on." it turned out the new guy was actually an evil cleric who had killed the first cleric and taken over the temple. now whenever we are asked where someone is and they are dead, especially if we have killed them or it is a delicate situation, we simply say, "he moved on..." :D [/QUOTE]

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