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From: dave@uwvax.ARPA
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: Fudging die rolls
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Date: Tue, 17-Jul-84 10:08:17 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jul 17 10:08:17 1984
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I also have been known to fudge die rolls when the dice have been
particularily random (i.e. not rolling anything close to what was
needed to move the game in the direction I wanted).  There are a
number of reasons for the screen for a DM, and this seems like a
good one.  Not that I fudge rolls often, I have been frustrated many
times when a certain encounter should pose a problem for the party,
but my dice roll nothing but low numbers, making the encounter a
total flop (what do you do when your mage needs a 2 to make his saving
through and rolls a 1, thus getting silenced(!) by the party's lower
level magician?).

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Dave Cohrs @ wisconsin
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