Your cheating stories here...

[reveal]

Kind of a follow-up to a thread on what you do with cheaters.

What's the worst cheater you've ever had at the table (as a player or DM) and how have they been caught?

Also, what was the worst attempt at cheating you've seen? And what was the best (i.e. they got away with it for a long time)?

 

[Moe Ronalds]

I had one cheater that I can think of. My little sister. Every time she rolled ability scores (we have a big group so we can't pay attention to everyone at once when making characters) she'd get 2 18s, a few 17s, and maybe a 15 in charisma if she got unlucky.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

I kind of cheated once, at a game at school aged 15. The DM was two years younger, as were most of the players, and they didn't know that invisibility wore off when you attacked someone. Nor were they aware of it's duration.

So my invisible thief got something like 15 or 16 kills before I decided I'd had enough...ho hum.

Apart from that, I've had no experience of cheating, just genuine mistakes with getting the rules wrong.

 

[Lazybones]

In junior high, when I was still learning the game (and serving as DM), I ran S4 (the Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth) for a pair of my friends. Turns out one of them had bought the module and they were reading it in between sessions. When I found out (I got suspicious and tested them with something that there was no way they could have known about, without having read the mod), I got extremely angry and killed the game. Wouldn't play with them again for months afterward (and always used homebrew from that point).

That was 20 years ago, and I while I've played with munchkin twinks and immature players since then, haven't had a cheater.

 

[Destil]

I've made some passes at a different players wife (she was also playing in the same game). Fortunately I was able to pass it off as "in character"

 

[Breakstone]

Not that kind of cheating, Destil!

 

[jmucchiello]

I was hoping for more in the moment cheating stories, like:

"There we were facing the demi-lich dragon when I needed to score crit since I had the lich-bane dragon-slayer +4 so I roll and I can just tell it's gonna come up as a 1 so I snatch the die from the table and roll again...."

 

[hammymchamham]

I've made some passes at a different players wife (she was also playing in the same game). Fortunately I was able to pass it off as "in character"

Best post ever.

In a game I played in we used 3d6 to roll abilities (it was a world war 2 game and we were expose to be average people), one guy's lowest stat was a 13 and he had 2 17's and an 18. Yeah I really believe he rolled 3d6 and got those stats

Of course, my guy who had a 6, 8, 10, 2 11's and a 13 killed more German soldiers than the super-sniper.

 

[AGGEMAM]

I had one cheater that I can think of. My little sister. Every time she rolled ability scores (we have a big group so we can't pay attention to everyone at once when making characters) she'd get 2 18s, a few 17s, and maybe a 15 in charisma if she got unlucky.

She could also just be freakishly lucky.

I remember a player who had rolled up a D&D basic character, you know 3d6's 6 times, and rolled up two 18's and two 16's, out of the 6 ability scores. He got quite angry when I said I did not believe him and he had to rerolled. But he did. And came up with three 18's and two 15's, go figure.

 

[Torx]

I once had a player who rolled extremely well all the time. It didn't matter whether he needed a 2 or a 20 - the 20's would come no matter what he tried.

It turns out he was fudging rolls every now and again, but only when it didn't matter. That's the great part! When his 12th level barbarian needed to simply avoid rolling a 1 to hit some low level creature, the player would roll a 4 on the die and announce an 18 or some other high, non-crit threatening number.

Whenever I called him on it, he would admit to it, even if it did cause him to miss or fail skill/save. In fact, at one point I made him sit right next to me for a good month's worth of sessions. Every single die roll I had to see for it to count. (this was all in good fun) I recorded the results, and he rolled 16-20 75% of the time (I think it was actually 74%). He was really that good - the cheating was just the icing on the cake for him.