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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Raven Crowking" data-source="post: 4707562" data-attributes="member: 18280">Let's look at this interesting premise.First off, one wonders how the rules can work improperly.  If the rules said, for instance, that after each encounter, roll 1d6, with all PCs dying on a roll of "1", then, should that "1" come up, the rules would still be working properly.  Likewise, if the use of the dice means that (say) there is a 2% chance of a character dying in an encounter, and a .005% chance of a TPK, then the rules are not working "improperly" when that result occurs.The rules define what "properly" is.What they do not define is what "desireable" is, i.e., what game experience is desired by the participant(s) at the table.When a person fudges a die roll, it is not because the rules have suddenly ceased to work, it is because the working rules have, by chance, caused a result that was not desired by the person(s) fudging the die roll.For example, if the dice are all rolled in the open, and a roll comes up that means a TPK is imminent, and the whole group opts that the die should be rerolled, then the result is not what was desired by the whole group.  The game rules, however, haven't somehow failed to act properly, any more than the rules of chess have failed because you lost your queen.If a player rolls a miss, and then secretly fudges it into a hit, the game rules haven't behaved improperly; they just didn't give the result desired by that player.  If a DM rolls damage that would kill a PC, and then secretly fudges it into a non-lethal blow, the game rules haven't behaved improperly; they just didn't give the result desired by that DM.  The reason that the aforementioned player and DM do their fudging in secret, BTW, is obvious -- they do not want the rest of the group to know.  In the player's case, he probably fears that he will be compelled to accept the original result.  In the DM's case, he probably fears either that he will be compelled to accept the original result, or that knowledge of "plot protection" will damage his players' enjoyment of the game.  This last is because the DM is well aware that fudging makes the success of the players to some degree illusory.In either case, plot protection is involved because the fudger(s) have a desired outcome that rolling the dice does not automatically allow.  Rolling the dice becomes a means to preserve an "illusion of chance" where chance is in reality constricted.It says that the rules are more in accordance with your desired play experience so far.  Nothing more, but also nothing less....and for you, that is a very good thing.  <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=":)" />RC</blockquote>

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