What the new PC doesn’t know won’t kill their character…

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[willigansisland]

I know fudging rolls is a topic of debate between DMs and normally I let the dice tell the story. However… sometimes you don’t want a level 1 character to die 20 minutes into the session. 🤷

[flyingfishz]

The Veteran players noticing the hesitation silently nod in respect

[TarsonTalon]

I'd actually log the fudged mercy roll as a karma point. Perhaps one day the player starts getting arrogant and haughty, in which case all those critical successes I had spared them from come back to haunt them.

[LukeR-iwgj]

He seemed so happy, there's no way anyone could do that to him

[MichaelRainey]

"The ogre rolled a 20 to hit. Fortunately, he only got a 1 for damage so he hits like an angry kid with a wiffle bat."
"Hey, DM, you didn't roll a second time."
"You're welcome."
"😮"

[jamesharrod]

Fudging the roll is a time honored tradition of DMs everywhere.

Anywhere there's a character about to die because they did something stupid, the fudge is there. Anywhere the story needs the dice to lie, the fudge is there. Most importantly, anywhere the DM doesn't design the encounter correctly and realizes it half way to a TPK, the fudge is there

[nirvanaguy]

As a dm I can confirm we change rolls to keep people alive or on track 😅

[cori_music]

I’ve accidentally TPK’d the party because, as a baby DM, I didn’t take into consideration how strong this creature was. So as an apology, they woke up still alive because SURPRISE it was a dream and totally not the DM completely screwing up.

But I’ve fudged a few rolls to make my players happy. I got two fresh players and a vet, they’re great as a unit.

[Resonantscythe]

I visualized a club swinging at his character's head with such force that it had reentry flare on it, and when the roll was fudged, the swing going wide at the last instant .

[dunstonlion]

My first ever DnD combat, my level 1 character got crit and downed and I watched everyone else play for an hour 😂

[nmartinez]

Story time: The first time I ever roll played, in my first session, on the first roll against my character, the enemy rolled a crit. We had opened with combat, and the GM just told me that he rolled a crit, if I remember correctly it would have been enough to kill my character, and that he was going to make it a regular hit, because of how much it would suck for that to be my very first experience with Tabletop ever. I appreciated it a lot, actually. There are cases where you can give freebies, and just make it known that it will not be a regular occurrence, and it is because we want to ease you in. Now that I've cut my teeth and gotten used to some things, that is no longer necessary, and I at times just want the combat to be ruthless, dice decide what they may. Training wheels are a thing for a reason. Guide, prepare, and teach, do not coddle. I am also a fan of you get ONE get out of death free card, which expires at this level, so we can get the campaign moving and not have to stop everything to reroll an entire new character before the current one has even done anything. Lower levels are just weirdly deadly in the wrong ways sometimes, in my opinion. Once your character has some real options, the gloves come off, no holds are barred anymore. All of this is what I find to be the best options, different tables are different.

[levilake]

Yeah it’s never a good idea to have a players first fight be instantly over.

[kyran]

The amount of rolls I've fudged for the sake of my players is between me and the dice

[Belligerent_Herald]

We’ve all done it, for the good of the table we bear these secrets.

[iamnumberthree]

One thing that keeps happening in my one shots are players leaving off at 1 hp, 1 mulligan per session

[MaxwellEvans-pb]

I turned it from 17k likes to 18k likes. Never before has such power been in my hands!

[EeveeRealSenpai]

"Favorable Rerolls" for when you want to just have simple fun

[grimrose]

My players will never know what I have done for them.

[jesus_walks_]

I was waiting for a villain origin story.

[Legohaiden]

Somewhere in an alternate universe, your character just died a horrible death.