Re: [DL] Fudging

[Greg Vose <kitsune@xmission.com>]

The story is always more important than the rolls. Always.  That said, you
fudge when it is appropriate to fudge.  If a missed shot by your villain is
just a missed shot and really doesn't heighten suspense or further the
story, there is no need to fudge.  If having your villain make an insanely
difficult jump and still plug the hexslinger to allow him to get away from
the posse so he can show up later, by all means fudge.

The same, of course, is true in the reverse.  Killing off a character just
because the die roll says so is kinda wimpy.  Fudge in the character's
favor unless the player was supremely stupid and blew all his chips on
making his tinkering roll to repair the coffee pot so they could have
coffee five minutes before taking on the fearmonger. ;>

At 04:13 PM 3/13/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>Hi,
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>Spolier space.
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>Marshalls amongst us - an earlier thread raised the point of fudging, 
>or cheating - to what extent to other marshalls use this?  What 
>techniques are used to pull off fudging convincingly either in the 
>favour of PCs or NPCs?  I ask because last session i was desperatly
>trying to 'kill' a PC so that she could become harrowed (player is
>bored with being a fourth wheel in a group of PCs with 'powers').
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>I created a 'manitou infested area' type situation, but could i kill
>her?  Could i *"&£$ - she had far too many chips, and it would have
>looked very strange to the other players (who have no idea on the
>harrowed thing) if she hadn't chipped all these wounds to her guts
>and head to avoid dying.  I also had a lot of missed shots from the
>minions i got on discount from Bob's Dodgy Minions-R-Us.
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>With hindsight, i probably should have noticed the chipstack and
>ground her down a bit first with some guts checks and random rock 
>falls or whatever, which would have made it easier, but I also 
>played the minions exactly by the rules - was this my (non-)fatal
>mistake?  I dunno.  Anyway, comments and suggestions appreciated.
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>regards,
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>John
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